School Years
At six, she had landed her first role in TV: playing Valerie Harper's (from the TV series Rhoda) daughter in the 1983 TV movie, "An Invasion of Privacy".
Her father Arthur Gellar divorced her mother in 1984 when Sarah was seven years old. Sarah never says much about her father in interviews.
During Sarah's years at Columbia Grammar School, 5 West 93rd Street, across Central Park from where she lived, Sarah had strong support from her mother. She calls her mother "the most amazing woman that I've ever met and probably will ever meet in my entire life".
Her principal called her mother "supersupportive" and tells how she emphasized Sarah's education.
In Sarah's words: ". . . I was going to school, acting, skating, and doing Tae Kwan Do all at one time. No human being can do that, and my mom's rule always was, if my grades got below an A-, I had to stop working. 'You can pick two things, you can't do them all. And, school has to be one of them'. So I chose acting".