Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar

The 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, about a teenage girl in California having to fight off vampires and other supernatural meanies, is a cult classic, but the TV series of the same name is even more so. And it was the television series that brought Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, to the attention of TV viewers. A star was born.

(This series also made a star out of Alyson Hannigan, who was one of the first women I featured on this blog.)

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ran for six years (1997 to 2003). Before that, Sarah Michelle Gellar was a busy child actress in both TV and movies. Since the series ended, she has appeared in movies such as Cruel Intentions and The Return.

She's married to actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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Actress Sally Field

I like her. I really like her. Because even though Sally Field risked being typecast as a goofy yet sweet ingenue as the result of her sixties TV shows "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun" (the latter being notable for being set in Puerto Rico, a rare locale for American sitcoms), she proved herself as a versatile actress in the movies in the seventies and eighties.

Two of her best known roles are title role in 1979's Norma Rae, about a mill worker in the South who fights for the unionization of her factory, and as Emma in the 1985 romantic comedy Murphy's Romance. Both movies were directed by Martin Ritt. Places in the Heart, from 1984, in which she played a Texas widow trying to hold onto her farm and family - and for which she won the Oscar that confirmed how much we like her - was directed by Robert Benton.

And, of course, she was in 1994's Forrest Gump as the title character's mother.

These days, Sally Field has come full circle in a return to television, playing Nora Walker (wasn't that the name of the mom in the Who's Tommy?) in the ABC series "Brothers & Sisters." But she hasn't abandoned cinema completely; as of this writing, she is to play Mary Todd Lincoln in a movie version of Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Maybe what's good gets a little bit better . . .. :-)

Singer/actress Linda Eder

Linda Eder achieved fame as a Broadway musical performer in the least likely set of circumstances - she starred in the New York production of Jekyll and Hyde, a musical based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel that had toured around the country before debuting on Broadway in 1997.

Raised in Minnesota, Ms. Eder, a daughter of immigrants from Austria and Norway, has also appeared in Svengali and in the world premiere of Camille Claudel, a musical about the famed French sculptress.

She's also released about a dozen solo albums.