Michelle Trachtenberg, a onetime youngster actor who starred in “Harriet the Spy” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and later appeared in “Gossip Girl,” has died. She was 39.
Trachtenberg was discovered lifeless Wednesday morning in her New York condominium, police informed The Instances in a press release.
The actor was discovered lifeless by her mom round 8 a.m. at One Columbus Place, a 51-story luxurious condominium complicated on Central Park South, police mentioned.
“Upon arrival, officers observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive. EMS responded to the location and pronounced the victim deceased. Criminality is not suspected,” the assertion mentioned. The medical expert will conduct an post-mortem.
Trachtenberg acquired her begin appearing with visitor roles on “Law & Order” and Nickelodeon’s “Clarissa Explains It All” within the early Nineties. She appeared in just a few episodes of “All My Children” and rose to prominence on Nickelodeon collection “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” earlier than making her function movie debut and getting her huge break within the 1996 movie “Harriet the Spy,” wherein she starred alongside Rosie O’Donnell, Gregory Smith and J. Smith-Cameron.
Within the early 2000s, she performed Sarah Michelle Gellar’s youthful sister Daybreak Summers in Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” showing in 66 episodes of the WB TV collection over three years. Her character, a member of the sci-fi universe’s so-called Scooby Gang, was later revealed to be an vitality embodiment generally known as the Key. It’s unclear if Trachtenberg was set to seem within the sequel that Gellar confirmed was taking place final month.
In 2021, Trachtenberg spoke up about her expertise on the hit collection within the wake of misconduct allegations made towards Whedon, its creator, by Gellar, her co-star Charisma Carpenter and DC Prolonged Universe star Ray Fisher.
Trachtenberg accused the author and director of inappropriate, “very bad” conduct, although she didn’t specify his alleged actions. “This must. Be known,” Trachtenberg wrote on Instagram, alleging that there was a rule on set alleging that Whedon was “not allowed in a room alone” together with her.
“What [Whedon] did was very bad. But we win. By surviving!” she wrote. Whedon later denied the allegations.
From left, Kristine Sutherland as Joyce, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy, Michelle Trachtenberg as Daybreak in an episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
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Trachtenberg’s different credit embrace stints on the TV collection “Mercy” and “Weeds” and a distinguished position as bad-girl socialite Georgina Sparks on the CW’s melodrama “Gossip Girl,” which additionally starred Penn Badgley, Blake Energetic and Leighton Meester. Trachtenberg reprised the position in HBO’s 2021 reboot and the half is listed on IMDb as her remaining appearing credit score.
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