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Sarah Michelle Gellar as been Hollywood’s sweetheart since the mid-’90s. She has been in the entertainment industry since she was a child, but it was when she starred in the hit WB series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer that Gellar really gained her worldwide recognition.

Even though Gellar has been known as one of the elite members in Hollywood, she has recently admitted that she is pretty much just like everyone else. Here are a few of the things that make Sarah Michelle Gellar so relatable.

When did Sarah Michelle Gellar start acting?

Sarah Michelle Gellar on the red carpet
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At just four years old, Gellar had started her acting career after a talent agent saw while she was eating with her family at a restaurant. Not long after she signed with her new agent, she was landed a prominent role in the 1983 movie, Invasion of Privacy. After that, Gellar went on to star in many more movies during the rest of the decade.

In 1989, she landed the role of co-host in a popular talk show called Girl Talk.  However, it wasn’t until a few years later that Gellar had her first big breakthrough. In 1993, she was cast to play the role of Kendall Hart in the hit soap opera, All My Children. 

She stayed on the show for two years, and in 1995, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. After that, Gellar’s career really started to take off and in 1997, she cast to play Buffy in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.

While she had a prolific career in television, she also dominated the big screen as well. Throughout the years, Gellar has starred in several movies including I know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, Cruel Intention, Scooby-Doo, and The Grudge.

What is Sarah Michelle Gellar’s net worth?

Today, Gellar is married to her Scooby-Doo co-star, Freddie Prinze Jr., and the couple has two kids together. Gellar took a break from show business for a few years to spend more time with her family. But in 2011, she starred and produced the dramatic series entitled, Ringer. 

And she just recently announced that she will be co-producing and starring in a new mini-series entitled Sometimes I Lie that is based on a best-selling novel written by Alice Feeney. 

Gellar has definitely had a very prosperous career and it doesn’t look like she is getting ready to slow down anytime soon. Today, she has an estimated net worth of around $20 million.

What excites Sarah Michelle Gellar the most is very relatable

Gellar may be one of the most well-known actresses of our time and be worth millions of dollars, but at the end of the day, she is just like the rest of us. Recently, Gellar did an interview with US Weekly where she shared 25 things that people don’t know about her.

A few of the things that she shared were pretty surprising. For example, she said that she learned to juggle while she was working on set. She also loves to binge-watch The Bachelor, although she did admit that she was not really into the show this season because the cast seems a little boring.

Another thing that she shared is that she gets really excited when she is able to get six hours of sleep in a row. Because Gellar is a mother of two and also works a full-time job, it is easy to understand why she may get excited by being able to sleep for six consecutive hours. And as many of us know, being an adult can be a very tiring and hectic endeavor.

So, hearing that Gellar gets excited about sleep is probably one of the most relatable things that the award-winning actress has ever said.