What The Cast Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Looks Like Today

There'd be no Buffy if it weren't for Sarah Michelle Gellar. The blonde starlet made the show a hit with her fierce combat style and fiesty one-liners, but Gellar knows she got lucky. In a post to Instagram commemorating the show's 20th anniversary, Gellar thanked creator Joss Whedon "for trusting [her] to give life to one of the greatest female characters ever created."

Since Buffy ended, Gellar has enjoyed a successful acting career—though she's never really capped the success she attained in the early years. After her days as a vampire slayer were over, she starred on the big screen in movies like The Grudge (2004) and acted in TV shows like Ringer (2011-2012) and The Crazy Ones (2013-2014) alongside the late Robin Williams. The talented actress has even performed voice work for Robot Chicken (2005-) and Star Wars Rebels (2014-).

The actress, who has two children with husband Freddie Prinze, Jr., also founded the company Foodstirs in October of 2015, which delivers organic DIY baking kit subscriptions to families hoping to spend a little more quality time together in the kitchen. Gellar opened up about why she started the business to Popsugar in January of 2017. "The inspiration was really our children," the actress said. "You want your children to learn to love the food and also a respect for the earth and where ingredients come from and that food does not come out of a machine."

The man behind Xander Harris has hit some hard times since his demon-fighting days. In April 2004, the actor revealed he was entering himself into a rehabilitation facility for alcoholism. Unfortunately, his time in rehab didn't appear to offer him much help. In May 2010, Brendon was charged with felony vandalism, two counts of battery against a police officer, and one count of resisting arrest, was arrested, and later released from jail on $20,000 bail. A few months later, he entered rehab again in an effort to seek help for his addictions to both alcohol and sleeping pills. Sadly, that wouldn't be the only time he got into trouble with the law.

After being arrested in March 2015, Brendon opened up about his mental health to a Tallahassee, Fla. newspaper, explaining his absence from a local convention. "A lot of it has to do with my coming to terms with the stuff that I am having to deal with inside of my head which is not fun—and it's not funny, and people who make fun of it and make light of it, I wish that it doesn't happen to them," he stated, adding,"I hate how I feel right now. I hate how I have come off. This isn't who I am."

But luckily, after two trips to the Dr. Phil Show, another arrest, and a subsequent stint in rehab, Brendon, who's been married (and divorced) twice, seems to be on the up and up–as is his career. According to IMDb, Brendon has landed quite a few acting gigs, including a recurring role in Criminal Minds (2005-), with more roles in both TV and film lined up for the future. Fans of Buffy would be happy to know that he's also had a hand in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics, helping shape stories that center around Xander.

After David Boreanaz wrapped on Buffy and, of course, its spin-off Angel (1999-2004), he jumped right into another major TV role: Detective Seeley Booth on the crime comedy-drama Bones (2005-2017).

On the home front, Boreanaz married his second wife Jaime Bergman, a former Playboy playmate, in 2001. The pair have two children together, Jaden and Bella Boreanaz. But unfortunately, Boreanaz made a few bad decisions that no-doubt shook the foundation of his marriage. In 2010, the actor admitted to having an affair with Rachel Uchitel, a woman best known as golfer Tiger Woods' mistress. Luckily for Boreanaz, he and his wife have seemingly been able to move past his infidelity, going on to found the nail polish line Chrome Girl with two of their friends.

With a name like Charisma, Carpenter was destined to be an actress. After starring as the sassy queen bee Cordelia Chase in Buffy and Angel, Carpenter, who gave birth to son Donovan Charle Hardy in 2003, enjoyed recurring roles in shows like Veronica Mars (2004-07) and The Lying Game (2011-13) as well as a gig in The Expendables films.

But Carpenter hasn't only faced off with evil forces on TV. In a 2013 interview with Collider, Carpenter reveals that she was once held at gunpoint by a crooked police officer, who shot two of her friends. She's used that experience to help others tell their stories of crime and abuse by hosting the TV series Surviving Evil (2013-) on Investigation Discovery.

Seth Green, who played the lovable werewolf Oz, hasn't slowed down since his days on the Buffy set. After his role as Dr. Evil's son in the Austin Powers series and his series Dads (2013-14), Green's mostly stuck to voice work, voicing characters like Chris Griffin on Family Guy (1999-) and Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012-). However, he's probably best known today for his work on Robot Chicken (2005-), a stop-motion sketch comedy show he co-created.

More than an actor, writer, and producer, Green's also a husband. He married actress Clare Grant in May 2010. The two apparently bonded over their shared love of comic books, TV shows, and video games. What more could you ask for?

As a child actor who starred in movies like Harriet the Spy (1996) and Inspector Gadget (1999), Michelle Trachtenberg already achieved success before she joined Whedon's iconic show as Buffy's sister, Dawn (AKA The Key). After the series ended, Trachtenberg continued to appear in films, starring in movies like EuroTrip (2004), Ice Princess (2005), and 17 Again (2009). She's also acted in a number of TV shows, including Mercy (2009-10), Weeds (2005-12), and Gossip Girl (2007-12).

According to Adweek, Trachtenberg is also a writer. While discussing her preference for Blackberry over the iPhone in a 2013 interview, she said, "I'm also a writer, and I'm usually working on several projects at the same time—screenplays and pilots. Sometimes an idea will hit me and I'll sit and write half a scene on my BlackBerry while waiting for a meeting, and I don't know that I'd be able to type as quickly on an iPhone."

While we don't doubt that Trachtenberg's kept herself busy as a writer, she doesn't have any writing credits listed on her IMDBbpage. Maybe she uses a pseudonym, à la Taylor Swift's Nils Sjoberg.

After starring in Buffy as Riley, the military monster hunter, Marc Blucas went on to act in the 2004 film First Daughter alongside Katie Holmes. Blucas has also starred in the TV shows Necessary Roughness (2011-13), Killer Women (2014), and Underground (2016-). In July 2009, he married journalist Ryan Haddon and became stepfather to her two children, whom she had with her ex-husband Christian Slater.

In a 2011 interview with The Wrap, Blucas acknowledged why Buffy fans tend to hate his former character–and his acting. "Back then, I was so green. I was a business major in college and had no concept of what I was doing," Blucas said, adding, "Today, I can't watch Buffy because I just cringe. I suck so bad in it. I got really lucky to have the opportunity, but I genuinely had no clue what I was doing." Oh, Blucas, we didn't hate your acting or your character that much.