FILE – Actress Michelle Trachtenberg poses for a portrait in the course of the Sundance Movie Pageant in Park Metropolis, Utah, on Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photograph/Mark Mainz, File)
NEW YORK — Michelle Trachtenberg, a former baby star who appeared within the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit film and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV reveals — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Lady” — has died. She was 39.
Police responded to a 911 name shortly after 8 a.m. at a 51-story luxurious house tower in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood the place officers discovered Trachtenberg “unconscious and unresponsive,” based on an NYPD assertion.
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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 mentioned.
“The household requests privateness for his or her loss,” Trachtenberg’s consultant, Gary Mantoosh, mentioned in an announcement Wednesday.
Trachtenberg was 8 when she started enjoying Nona Mecklenberg on Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” from 1994 to 1996 after which starred within the title position within the movie diversifications of “Harriet the Spy” and “Inspector Gadget,” reverse Matthew Broderick.
“Michelle comes off as real as a result of she actually is a real child. Everybody can establish along with her,” mentioned Debby Beece, president of Nickelodeon Motion pictures in 1996.
In 2000 Trachtenberg joined the forged 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’m courageous sufficient now as a 35-year-old girl to repost this,” she wrote on social media, and alluded to “his not acceptable habits” she skilled as a teenage actor.
In 2001, she acquired a Daytime Emmy nomination for internet hosting Discovery’s “Fact or Scare.” Trachtenberg went on to recurring roles on “Six Toes Underneath,” “Weeds” and “Gossip Lady,” the place she performed the gang’s scheming nemesis, Georgina Sparks.
For her fan-favorite position, she was nominated as a TV villain on the Teen Selection Award in 2012. “It’s positively much more enjoyable than enjoying the great lady,” she advised Seventeen in 2009. I really like the response you get. I by no means understood why some actors don’t need to play villains or evil characters.”
She was one of many authentic collection’ stars to return for a pair of visitor appearances within the 2021 “Gossip Lady” revival.
As if to cement herself in millennial tradition, Trachtenberg made a cameo in Fall Out Boy’s music video for the “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” alongside Seth Inexperienced.
Hollywood took to social media to mourn one among their very own, one who had made the transition from child star to teen queen to grownup actor. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” co-star David Boreanaz mentioned on Instagram it was “so very unhappy.. horrible information.” Melissa Gilbert, who starred with Trachtenberg within the 1996 movie “A Vacation for Love,” wrote on Instagram: “My coronary heart aches for your loved ones and all those that cherished you so.”
Trachtenberg’s different credit included “Ice Princess” in 2005, enjoying a math prodigy and aspiring determine skater. The AP mentioned it had “a very good, although feeble, coronary heart and the very best of intentions” and mentioned Trachtenberg was “mining the identical nervous twitter from her kid-sister days on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’”
The New York Metropolis-born Trachtenberg additionally appeared within the 2004 teen intercourse comedy “EuroTrip,” she co-starred with Zac Efron and Leslie Mann in 2009’s “17 Once more” and performed a murderous stalker and abductor on an episode of “Felony Minds.”
For “Killing Kennedy,” the 2013 movie through 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.
Different credit included supporting roles within the movies “Mysterious Pores and skin” in 2004 and “Black Christmas” in 2006. She additionally starred on the NBC medical collection “Mercy” (2009–2010) reverse Taylor Schilling. Extra just lately, she hosted the true-crime docuseries “Meet, Marry, Homicide” on Tubi.
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