Eating in a local restaurant, she was discovered by an agent when she was 4 years old. Soon after she was making her first movie, An Invasion of Privacy (1983) (TV). Besides a long list of movies, she has also appeared in many TV commercials and on the stage. Her breakthrough came with TV-series "Swans Crossing" (1992). During 1997 she became known to the cinema audience when she appeared in two movies at the cinema I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). But she is arguably still most associated with her title role in the long-running TV series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997). One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1998] Roles considered for: Rogue in X-Men (2000), Was offered Portia de Rossi's role in Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001), Was James Toback's first choice to play Cindy Bandolini in Harvard Man (2001), She beat out Rebecca Gayheart for the role of Cici in Scream 2 (1997). Ranked #45 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).