« Gossip Girl » star Michelle Trachtenberg died at the age of 39-Diepresse.com
Trachtenberg was primarily known for her role as Georgina Sparks in the « Gossip Girl » series. The breakthrough succeeded as Dawn Summers in « Buffy – in the spell of the demons ».
She was an ice princess (in film of the same name), kleptomanian (in « Buffy ») and eternal intrigue (in « Gossip Girl »). As the latter, with the name Georgina Sparks, she robbed Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and an entire generation in front of the screen: the New Yorker Michelle Trachtenberg, which was actually known as a loving-known New Yorker. The actress died on Wednesday at the age of only 39.
Trachtenberg was reportedly found dead in her apartment in Manhattan. A cause of death is not known, but the police classify their death as « not suspicious », as several US media unanimously report. The « New York Post“According to Trachtenberg, Trachtenberg recently underwent a liver transplant.
A childhood in front of the camera
At the age of three years Trachtenberg started to appear in commercials, and a first television role followed quickly: in the mid-1990s she was seen in the nickelodeon series « The Adventures of Pete & Pete ». At the age of 10, she slipped into her first film role as « Harriet, the little detective » (1996).
« /> Michelle Trachtenberg on the set of « Gossip Girl » CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection via Imago
She had her breakthrough with the series « Buffy – in the spell of the demons » when Buffy's little sister Dawn Summers. And then she gave Georgina Sparks, who dreaded and celebrated and celebrated villain from « Gossip Girl » (2007 – 2012). Trachtenberg even appeared in the series reboot in 2022. In the nineties, she also gave the « Eisprinzessin » (2005), in « 17 Again » alongside Zac Efron and Leslie Mann the rather bitchy stereotype of a teenager. Your parade discipline. (Evdin)