Editing Sarah Michelle Gellar (section)

==Early life==
Gellar was born in New York City on April 14, 1977. She is the only child of Rosellen (née Greenfield), a nursery school teacher, and Arthur Gellar, a garment worker.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.netflixmovies.com/s/actor/sarah-michelle-gellar | title=Netflix Movies Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar | access-date=August 29, 2023 | archive-date=March 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320221323/https://www.netflixmovies.com/s/actor/sarah-michelle-gellar | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=100992&page=1 | title=Sarah Michelle Gellar's Father Dies | website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] }}</ref> Both of her parents are [[Jewish]].<ref name="marksfriggin1">{{cite web |work=MarksFriggin.com |title=Sara Michelle Gellar Calls In |date=March 5, 1999 |url=http://www.marksfriggin.com/news99/3-1-99.htm |access-date=November 1, 2006 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171039/http://www.marksfriggin.com/news99/3-1-99.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Gellar3">{{cite news |work=The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California |title=Celebrity Jews |url=http://www.jweekly.com/includes/print/35083/article/celebrities/ |access-date=July 12, 2014 |date=May 30, 2008 |first=Nate |last=Bloom |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065250/http://www.jweekly.com/includes/print/35083/article/celebrities/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1984, when she was seven, her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Friedman |first=Megan |url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a22/smg-interview-99/ |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar Vamps It Up |work=Cosmopolitan |date=June 29, 1999 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411174436/http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/news/a22/smg-interview-99/ |url-status=live }}</ref> While growing up, she lost contact with her father, from whom she remained estranged until his death in 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/dad-buffy-gellar-found-dead-article-1.934769 |title=Dad Of 'Buffy'S' Gellar Found Dead |newspaper=Daily News|location=New York |date=October 11, 2001 |access-date=August 14, 2015  |archive-date=August 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150828212719/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/dad-buffy-gellar-found-dead-article-1.934769 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/42297/buffy-s-dad-found-dead |title=Buffy's Dad Found Dead |work=E! |date=October 11, 2001 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=April 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418115952/http://www.eonline.com/news/42297/buffy-s-dad-found-dead |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ABC News">{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101867 |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar's Father Found Dead |work=ABC News |date=January 6, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=August 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826173915/http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101867 |url-status=live }}</ref> She once described him as "non-existent",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dennishensley.com/sarah-michelle-gellar/ |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar – Dennis Hensley |work=Dennishensley.com |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=March 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315223008/http://dennishensley.com/sarah-michelle-gellar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and stated: "My father, you can just say, is not in the picture. I'm not being deliberately evasive about him, it's just that there's so little to say."<ref name="ABC News"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://culture.com/articles/360/harvard-man-interview-with-sarah-michelle-gellar.phtml |title=Harvard Man: Interview With Sarah Michelle Gellar |work=Culture.com |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=March 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301154151/http://culture.com/articles/360/harvard-man-interview-with-sarah-michelle-gellar.phtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://movieline.com/2002/05/01/sarah-michelle-gellar-60-questions-for-sarah/3/ |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar: 60 Questions For Sarah – Movieline – Page 3 |work=Movieline |date=May 1, 2002 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230525/http://movieline.com/2002/05/01/sarah-michelle-gellar-60-questions-for-sarah/3/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Gellar was a competitive figure skater, once finishing in third place at a New York State regional competition,<ref name="Gellarearlyyears">{{cite book |first=Marilyn D. |last=Anderson |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaFbAgAAQBAJ&q=sarah+michelle+gellar+school&pg=PT19 |year=2001 |publisher=Infobase Learning |isbn=978-1-4381-4104-6 |page=19 |access-date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202444/https://books.google.com/books?id=WaFbAgAAQBAJ&q=sarah+michelle+gellar+school&pg=PT19 |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as having a [[Black belt (martial arts)|black belt]] in [[taekwondo]].<ref name="Gellarearlyyears" />

With her single mother working "just above the poverty line",<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/sarah-michelle-gellar-interview-wolf-pack-buffy | title='A lot of the demons seem a little cheesy now': Sarah Michelle Gellar on Buffy, her burnout and her comeback &#124; Buffy the Vampire Slayer | work=The Guardian | date=January 30, 2023 | last1=Hunt | first1=Elle }}</ref> Gellar received a partial scholarship to study at the [[Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School]], where she experienced [[bullying]].<ref name="Gellarearlyyears" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://movieline.com/2002/05/01/sarah-michelle-gellar-60-questions-for-sarah/ |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar: 60 Questions For Sarah |work=Movieline |date=May 1, 2002 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730111536/http://movieline.com/2002/05/01/sarah-michelle-gellar-60-questions-for-sarah/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She remarked: "I was different and that's the one thing you can't be at school, because you're ostracised. I didn't have the money these kids had".<ref name="gellarind6">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/sarah-michelle-gellar-i-was-always-different-419745.html |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar: 'I was always different' |newspaper=The Independent |date=October 13, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |location=London |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801035854/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/sarah-michelle-gellar-i-was-always-different-419745.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As a working [[child actress]], she was not present in class for a considerable amount of time, and recalled having "more absences in the first month than you're supposed to have for an entire year".<ref name="Gellarearlyyears" /> She then briefly attended the [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts]], but dropped out due to acting obligations.<ref name="Gellarearlyyears" /> Gellar graduated from the [[Professional Children's School]]<ref name="Gellarearlyyears" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pcs-nyc.org/page.cfm?page=1303 |title=Professional Children's School : About Us : Notable Alumni |work=Pcs-nyc.org |date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706083436/http://www.pcs-nyc.org/page.cfm?page=1303 |archive-date=July 6, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.families.com/blog/more-famous-people-and-the-schools-they-attended |title=More Famous People and the Schools they Attended Education |work=Families.com |date=June 20, 2014 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530185457/https://www.families.com/blog/more-famous-people-and-the-schools-they-attended |url-status=live }}</ref> in 1994 as a "straight A" student with a 4.0 grade average.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/person/sarah-michelle-gellar?filter-options=movies |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar Profile |work=Metacritic |date=November 9, 2010 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112185410/http://www.metacritic.com/person/sarah-michelle-gellar?filter-options=movies |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124156,00.html |title=Breakthroughs '97 |magazine=People |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906192230/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124156,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/sarah-michelle-gellar/biography/111?page=3 |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar – Biography |work=Talktalk.co.uk |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=July 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704202535/http://www.talktalk.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/sarah-michelle-gellar/biography/111?page=3 |url-status=live }}</ref> As she spent significant time working on ''All My Children'' while "trying to graduate",<ref name="gellarcareer">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/sarah_michelle_gellar/biography |title=Sarah Michelle Biography |magazine=People |access-date=April 12, 2012 |archive-date=July 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701155606/http://www.people.com/people/sarah_michelle_gellar/biography |url-status=live }}</ref> the majority of her senior year was completed through guided study.<ref name="Gellargrades">{{cite web |url=http://articles.philly.com/1995-11-14/news/25682554_1_absentee-students-pcs-public-school |title=A School Of Their Own Professional Children's School Educates Young Entertainers |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=November 14, 1995 |access-date=August 14, 2015 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223710/http://articles.philly.com/1995-11-14/news/25682554_1_absentee-students-pcs-public-school |url-status=dead }}</ref>