Michelle Trachtenberg, an actress beloved by millennials for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Disney’s Ice Princess, Gossip Girl and more, has died at the age of 39, according to multiple reports from the likes of the New York Post and ABC News. No cause of death was immediately disclosed. Born in New York City […]Michelle Trachtenberg, an actress beloved by millennials for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Disney’s Ice Princess, Gossip Girl and more, has died at the age of 39, according to multiple reports from the likes of the New York Post and ABC News. No cause of death was immediately disclosed. Born in New York City
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Michelle Trachtenberg, an actress beloved by millennials for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Disney’s Ice Princess, Gossip Girl and more, has died at the age of 39, according to multiple reports from the likes of the New York Post and ABC News.
No cause of death was immediately disclosed.
Born in New York City on October 11, 1985, Trachtenberg was a lifelong actor who made her television debut in commercials at just three years old before landing a recurring role as Lily Montgomery on the long-running soap opera All My Children. She gained further recognition while starring in Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her role in Discovery children’s series Truth or Scare before landing her breakout feature lead as Harriet M. Welsch in the 1996 Paramount film Harriet the Spy, based on the classic children’s novel.
Trachtenberg joined Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the cult WB fantasy series’ fifth season in 2000, portraying Dawn Summers, the younger sister to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy. Subsequently, the actress garnered further notice with roles in the raunchy 2004 cult comedy EuroTrip and the Disney sports drama Ice Princess, where she played a bookish teen discovering her passion for figure skating. One of Trachtenberg’s other most memorable roles came in 2008 when she joined Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks, the manipulative and unpredictable troublemaker who frequently threw the lives of the Upper East Side elite into chaos. Around that same time, she starred opposite Zac Efron and Matthew Perry in Warner Bros’ comedy 17 Again, playing the daughter of Perry’s Mike O’Donnell, who magically gets the chance to relive his teenage years.
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Trachtenberg later continued to work steadily in television, with guest appearances on the likes of House, Weeds, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Sleepy Hollow. Additionally, she lent her voice to animated projects, including Robot Chicken, most recently reprising in Max’s Gossip Girl sequel series in 2023.
We’ll share details on any potential service planned for Trachtenberg as they emerge.
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