Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor greatest recognized for movie and tv roles together with “Gossip Woman” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. She was 39.
She was present in her New York Metropolis house, in accordance with ABC Information and New York Submit, which first reported the information. Her reason for dying has not been confirmed.
Born in New York on Oct. 11, 1985, Trachtenberg started performing at a younger age. She was 3 years outdated when she started showing in commercials and shortly after landed her first TV credit score, on the Nickelodeon sequence “The Adventures of Pete & Pete,” which aired within the mid Nineties. By age 10, she scored her first starring movie function in 1996’s “Harriet the Spy,” by which she performed the eponymous aspiring sleuth reverse Rosie O’Donnell, J. Smith-Cameron.
Trachtenberg’s breakthrough, nevertheless, was enjoying Daybreak Summers on the teenager drama “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which ran on the WB within the early aughts. Trachtenberg joined the favored present in its fifth season because the youthful sister of Sarah Michelle Geller’s Buffy Summers and remained on the sequence till it ended with season seven in 2003.
She discovered additional success in one other teen drama, portraying the perennial imply woman Georgia Sparks on “Gossip Woman,” which ran from 2007 to 2012. Her character, a diabolical Manhattan socialite, reguarly discovered herself feuding, or blackmailing, with Blake Vigorous’s Serena Van Der Woodsen and Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf.
Throughout the mid-2000s, Trachtenberg starred in “Eurotrip,” the raunchy teen comedy that popularized the fictional music “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” in addition to 2005’s “Ice Princess,” a relatively healthful movie a few excessive schooler with a ardour for determine skating.
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