NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Trachtenberg, a former youngster star who appeared within the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit film and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV exhibits — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died. She was 39.
Police responded to a 911 name shortly after 8 a.m. at luxurious residential tower in midtown the place “officers observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive,” in keeping with an NYPD assertion.
Paramedics pronounced her lifeless on the scene. No foul play was suspected and the New York Medical Examiner is investigating the reason for demise, police stated.
Representatives for Trachtenberg didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Her demise was first reported by the New York Publish.
Trachtenberg was 8 when she started performed Nona Mecklenberg on Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete & Pete Nona” from 1994 to 1996 after which starred within the title position within the movie variations of “Harriet the Spy” and “Inspector Gadget,” reverse Matthew Broderick.
“Michelle comes off as genuine because she really is a genuine kid. Everyone can identify with her,” stated Debby Beece, president of Nickelodeon Films in 1996.
In 2000 Trachtenberg joined the solid of “Buffy,” enjoying Daybreak Summers, the youthful sister of the title character performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar between 2000 and 2003.
Trachtenberg thanked Gellar for talking out towards Joss Whedon in 2021, following abuse allegations made towards the “Buffy” showrunner. “I am brave enough now as a 35-year-old woman to repost this,” she wrote on social media, and alluded to “his not appropriate behavior” she skilled as a teenage actor.
In 2001, she obtained a Daytime Emmy nomination for internet hosting Discovery’s “Truth or Scare.” Trachtenberg went on to recurring roles on “Six Feet Under,” “Weeds” and “Gossip Girl,” the place she performed the gang’s scheming nemesis, Georgina Sparks.
He different credit included “Ice Princess” in 2005 — enjoying a math prodigy and aspiring determine skater — and the 2004 teen intercourse comedy “EuroTrip.” For “Killing Kennedy,” the 2013 movie by which she performed the spouse of Lee Harvey Oswald, round 80% of Trachtenberg’s dialogue was in Russian. She had discovered the language from her mom rising up.
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Related Press Author Michael R. Sisak contributed to this report.
