Women of Joss Whedon [Top 35] [Sarah #3]

3. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Summers - Buffy / Angel

The Chosen One: Duh. She IS the chosen one, and the titular heroine of the entire series.

Her Stake in Things: Despite two deaths, and a never-ending onslaught of apocalypses, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy remains the chosen one, and the leader of the now-thousands of slayers populating the Buffy-Verse. She's gone from wannabe-ordinary teenage girl to master of the forces of darkness in 7 years flat, and the canonical continuation Buffy comic books show no sign of stopping. Joss Whedon will always have Buffy the Vampire Slayer as his greatest creation (sorry, Firefly purists), and we'll never forget SMG as the iconic slayer.

So Long Sunnydale: Sarah's kept mostly out of the limelight in the intervening years, living happily with husband Freddie Prinze Jr, and raising her daughter, but she's made occasional ventures into the silver screen with horror flicks like The Grudge and will return to TV on USA's upcoming The Maladys.