The Early Years
Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14 1977 in New York. An only child, she was raised on New York's Upper East Side by her schoolteacher mother, Rosellen Gellar.
At the age of three-and-a-half she was spotted by an agent whilst dining at a restaurant with her mother. Within weeks she was cast in a TV commercial.
By the age of four she had made her first commercial, acting for Burger King and complaining that McDonalds served skimpy burgers.McDonalds sued her employers, thus beginning the infamous "Battle of the Burgers". The case was eventually settled out of court in 1982.
Luckily this early exposure to the more unpleasant side of the entertainment industry did not put her off a career in acting. Since Burger King, Sarah appeared in over one hundred commercials filmed over the following years which brought in a healthy income.