Michelle Trachtenberg, recognized for her roles on TV sequence Gossip Lady and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died at age 39.
Police sources, chatting with the New York Publish who first reported the tragic information, in addition to ABC Information, mentioned Trachtenberg’s demise is just not being handled as suspicious.
Police responded to a 911 name shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday at a luxurious residential tower within the Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood the place “officers noticed a 39-year-old feminine unconscious and unresponsive,” in line 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 mentioned.
A reason behind demise was not instantly recognized. Representatives for Trachtenberg didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Related Press.
Sources instructed ABC Information she just lately underwent a liver transplant and should have been experiencing issues.
FILE – Michelle Trachtenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar arrive on the “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” reunion, a part of the twenty fifth annual William S. Paley Tv Pageant held on the Arclight Cinemas on March 20, 2008 in Hollywood, California.
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Trachtenberg was 8 when she started enjoying 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.
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“Michelle comes off as real as a result of she actually is a real child. Everybody can determine together 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 lady 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 Reality 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.
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.
Her different credit included Ice Princess in 2005 — enjoying a math prodigy and aspiring determine skater — and the 2004 teen intercourse comedy EuroTrip. She co-starred with Zac Efron and Leslie Mann in 2009’s 17 Once more.
For Killing Kennedy, the 2013 movie during which she performed the spouse of Lee Harvey Oswald, round 80 per cent 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 sequence Mercy (2009–2010) reverse Taylor Schilling. Extra just lately, she hosted the true-crime docuseries Meet, Marry, Homicide on Tubi.
As of this writing, no memorial or funeral plans have been introduced.
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— With recordsdata from The Related Press’ Mark Kennedy
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