Other Things SMG
Sarah Michelle Gellar:
Height: 1.6m
Date of Birth: 14 April 1977
Eye colour: green
Natural hair colour: light brown
Birthplace: New York, NY
Letterman 1982
It is mentioned in the 1997 interview with Letterman that Gellar was on his show when she was 5. She did a "safety skit" on Letterman's show in 1982 when he was with NBC. Gellar actually appeared on the NBC version of Letterman show twice. In 1982 she did the safety skit where she wore a box on her head. In 1985, she was a girl in the audience who alleges that Letterman "destroyed Christmas", and then runs out of the building crying.
Tattoos
According to VANISHINGTATTOO.COM, SMG's tattoos consist of the following: She has a scripted Chinese tattoo with blossoms on her ankle which is a Chinese symbol for integrity. On her left hip are images of the Celtic alphabet. On her other ankle she has a heart pierced with a dagger, and on her back she has 2 dragonflies. Her left inside forearm has the letters 'C' and 'R', the initials of her children, Charlotte and Rocky. Most recently she has gotten tiny tattoos on her hands. SarahGellarFan posted excellent photos of Gellar's tattoos on Instagram.
A Lemur Named Gellar
One of two blue-eyed black lemurs born at the Duke Lemur Center on March 14 has been named after Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gellar the lemur weighed 2.5 ounces at birth. Blue-eyed black lemurs are among the world’s top 25 most endangered primates. With Gellar and another newborn named after Mark Hamill, the Center now has 8 males and 7 females. According to an article by Camilla Molina in the New Observer, "Gellar’s mom, Wiig, was protective of Gellar when she was introduced to the family just six days after birth, making sure both Gellar’s sister, McKinnon, and her dad, Hiddleston kept a safe distance. By March 27, Gellar was climbing off her mom and exploring the enclosure on her own."
THE JOY OF READING
Sarah Michelle Gellar teamed up with THE NESTLE SHARE THE JOY OF READING PROGRAM to raise awareness about the importance of children's literacy. She had this to say about the program: "As a mother and avid reader, I am excited to be participating in 'The Nestle Share the Joy of Reading Program' to benefit READING IS FUNDAMENTAL. Reading has had an enormous, positive impact on my life and I encourage people to support organizations such as RIF that work to ignite a child's hunger for knowledge and inspire imagination."
The Jules Asner Interview - 2003
Jules Asner interviewed Gellar in 2003 for E!. The above recording was posted to YouTube by goldcanyon340 with commercials included.
No Kid Hungry
Gellar is a celebrity partner of NO KID HUNGRY, a program to bring healthy school breakfasts to children across the US. She explained to Parade Magazine how she became involved: "I started to read about Urban Hunger and the studies and statistics about how many children go hungry. Something like four out of five children are hungry at some point. I thought–that’s not possible. And then I started to read about No Kid Hungry and I learned a term that really frightened me–Suburban Hunger. Right now the kids living right next door to you might be going hungry."
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The Widow Claire and Jake's Women
Sarah Michelle Gellar has appeared in two theatrical productions. In 1986 she was Molly in the Horton Foote play, "The Widow Claire". She played another Molly (Mollie at age 13) in 1990 in the Neil Simon play, "Jake's Women", but the show closed out of town after a trial run in San Diego. When Simon decided to do the play again in 1992, Gellar was the wrong age for the part and Brenda Vaccaro took the role.
The New York Times had this to say about The Widow Claire: "In keeping with his writing habits of four decades, the author of "The Trip to Bountiful" and "Tender Mercies" whisks us into the fictional small Texas town of Harrison and sets his characters about their diurnal business. "The Widow Claire," a 95-minute anecdote in one act, describes only a single long summer night of 1911. Horace Robedaux (Matthew Broderick), a poor but ambitious 21-year-old about to enroll in a six-week business course in Houston, spends the eve of his departure courting the title character (Hallie Foote), a 27-year-old widow with several suitors and two rambunctious kids. Daybreak brings Horace's leave-taking and an exchange of farewells so formal one might wonder whether the couple had in fact stolen a few chaste kisses under the new moon of the night before."
Mystery Mid-90s Pilot
The above photo was posted on SMG's Instagram with this note: "Since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the musical #Chess. Over 20 years ago, on a pilot presentation (for a show based on a not so successful movie for a small network most people didn’t know) I bonded with another actor over our mutual love of this musical. I even confided in him, that in my very first ice skating competition , I skated to "One Night in Bangkok" (I came in third) Well now it’s 20 years later, and that actor - @strongdanny rewrote the book to #chessmusical and I had the honor to sit in the audience and watch his incredible version. And I was blown away. It exceeded any expectation. The book was moving, and timely and funny. The actors were so incredible. And I got to share the experience with my daughter. Dreams do come true (also for six degrees- that same song was originally sung by #murrayhead the brother of another actor on that very same pilot presentation - #anthonyhead"
Ice Skating
Gellar skated competitively for three years in the late 1980's, and once finished third in a New York State regional competition. She gave up skating at the urging of her mother to concentrate on acting and her studies.
Cookbooks
SMG has authored a cookbook (with Gia Russo) called Stirring Up Fun with Food: Over 115 Simple, Delicious Ways to Be Creative in the Kitchen. Organized by month, the book offers projects for every occasion and theme, including Valentine's Day, Shark Week, and Halloween.
Freddie Prinze Jr. co-wrote a cookbook with Rachel Wharton. Back to the Kitchen: 75 Delicious, Real Recipes (& True Stories) from a Food-Obsessed Actor : A Cookbook has a foreword by Sarah Michelle Gellar, and is available in hardcover and a kindle edition. Prinze told Zee Krstic of EATER: "The first dish I ever cooked on TV was a sea bass with sugar and lime with Rosie O’Donnell, of all people." Seventy-five of Prinze's family recipes are featured, along with the stories behind them.
Quantum Quest - A Cassini Space Odyssey
The character Rayna in the educational science fiction adventure film "2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey" was originally voiced by Gellar. The film was made by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but in 2008 the script was rewritten to include discoveries made by the Cassini Huygens mission to Saturn, and Gellar was too busy to voice her character. She was replaced by Amanda Peet and the character was renamed Ranger. The new version of the film was released 13 January 2010 with the new title: QUANTUM QUEST: A CASSINI SPACE ODYSSEY.