Sarah Michelle Gellar helped Michelle Trachtenberg get a role in Buffy

Michelle Trachtenberg is an American actress who landed a role in the hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the age of 14. The show's star Sarah Michelle Gellar had recommended her to the production, as the two actresses had known each other since All My Children. Sarah Michelle Gellar then took the young actress under her wing, even going so far as to ask her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. to teach her how to drive.