1. Michelle Christine Trachtenberg was an American actress.
36 Facts About Michelle Trachtenberg
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Michelle Trachtenberg found success on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Dawn Summers, the younger sister of the show's title character, a role which won her another Young Artist Award and earned her three Saturn Award nominations.
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Michelle Trachtenberg was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her role as the host of the Discovery Kids series Truth or Scare.
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Michelle Trachtenberg provided the lead voice of Judy in Facebook Watch's adult animated web series Human Kind Of and executive produced the teen drama web series Guidance and Tubi's true crime series Meet, Marry, Murder.
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Michelle Trachtenberg died at age 39 from complications of diabetes.
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Michelle Christine Trachtenberg was born on October 11,1985, in New York City, to Lana, a bank manager, and Michael Trachtenberg, a fiber-optics manager.
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Michelle Trachtenberg's parents were Jewish immigrants; her father was from Germany and her mother was from Ukraine.
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Michelle Trachtenberg's mother helped her learn some Russian for a role in 2013.
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Michelle Trachtenberg was raised in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she attended junior high school at The Bay Academy for the Arts and Sciences.
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Michelle Trachtenberg said in a later interview and on social media that she was bullied in school.
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Michelle Trachtenberg was a youth representative for the launch of an anti-drug campaign with President Bill Clinton.
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Michelle Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at age three in a commercial for Wisk detergent.
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Michelle Trachtenberg then starred in the short-lived television series Meego, which garnered her a Young Artist Award.
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Michelle Trachtenberg returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget.
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Michelle Trachtenberg hosted the Discovery Kids series Truth or Scare from 2001 to 2003, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.
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In 2004, after Buffy and Truth or Scare, Michelle Trachtenberg appeared as Jenny in the teen comedy film EuroTrip.
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That same year, Michelle Trachtenberg played Wendy in Mysterious Skin, Gregg Araki's film adaptation of Scott Heim's novel.
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Michelle Trachtenberg had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under, as Celeste, a spoiled pop star.
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In March 2005, Michelle Trachtenberg starred in Walt Disney Pictures' comedy sports drama film Ice Princess as Casey Carlyle, a science whiz, who is torn between a future in academia and her newfound dream of being a competitive figure skater.
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Michelle Trachtenberg revealed on the December 22,2006, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien that House was her favorite show, and that she was friends with one of the producers and had asked to be a guest star.
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In 2006, Michelle Trachtenberg starred in Black Christmas, the remake of the 1974 slasher.
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Michelle Trachtenberg provided the voice of Tika Waylan for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-video animated film based on the novel of the same name.
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Michelle Trachtenberg appeared on The CW hit show Gossip Girl, as Georgina Sparks, who recently left rehab and brings back the dark past Serena van der Woodsen desperately wants to leave behind.
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Michelle Trachtenberg returned to the show for a multiple-episode story arc towards the end of season two.
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Michelle Trachtenberg appeared in the season three finale and in season four.
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Michelle Trachtenberg appeared several times in season five, and in almost every episode of season six, the show's final season.
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In 2009, Michelle Trachtenberg was a cast member on the NBC drama series Mercy, which lasted one season.
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Michelle Trachtenberg then returned to film, starring in the 2009 teen fantasy comedy 17 Again and had a small role in the comedy Cop Out.
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Michelle Trachtenberg reprised the role on June 16,2011, and in the series finale on July 21,2011.
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In June 2012, Michelle Trachtenberg was cast in the film The Scribbler, produced by Gabriel Cowan.
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In late 2015, Michelle Trachtenberg starred in the online series Guidance as Anna, the high school guidance counselor.
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In 2022, Michelle Trachtenberg reprised her role as Georgina Sparks in the second season of the HBO revival of Gossip Girl.
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Michelle Trachtenberg had been set to make an appearance at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas on March 12,2025.
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In early 2024, Michelle Trachtenberg addressed concerns on social media regarding her health after some people commented on her apparent weight loss and signs of jaundice.
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Michelle Trachtenberg reassured her followers that she was "happy and healthy".
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Michelle Trachtenberg was found unresponsive by her mother in her Manhattan apartment on the morning of February 26,2025, months after her liver transplant.