Michelle Trachtenberg, recognized for her roles on TV collection Gossip Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died at age 39.
Police sources, chatting with the New York Post who first reported the tragic information, in addition to ABC News, mentioned Trachtenberg’s loss of life isn’t 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 observed a 39-year-old female unconscious and unresponsive,” in accordance with an NYPD assertion.
Paramedics pronounced her useless on the scene. No foul play was suspected and the New York Medical Examiner is investigating the reason for loss of life, police mentioned.
A explanation for loss of life was not instantly recognized. Representatives for Trachtenberg didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Associated Press.
Sources instructed ABC News she just lately underwent a liver transplant and should have been experiencing problems.
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 Television Festival 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 diversifications of Harriet the Spy and Inspector Gadget, reverse Matthew Broderick.
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“Michelle comes off as genuine because she really is a genuine kid. Everyone can identify with her,” mentioned Debby Beece, president of Nickelodeon Movies in 1996.
In 2000 Trachtenberg joined the solid of Buffy, enjoying Dawn 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 acquired 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.
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 Green.
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 Again.
For Killing Kennedy, the 2013 movie wherein 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.
Other credit included supporting roles within the movies Mysterious Skin in 2004 and Black Christmas in 2006. She additionally starred on the NBC medical collection Mercy (2009–2010) reverse Taylor Schilling. More just lately, she hosted the true-crime docuseries Meet, Marry, Murder on Tubi.
As of this writing, no memorial or funeral plans have been introduced.
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— With information from The Associated Press’ Mark Kennedy
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