The actress was discovered lifeless at her residence in New York Metropolis after officers responded to a 911 name simply after 8am native time this morning.
An investigation into her demise has been opened however “criminality is not suspected”, police stated.
Trachtenberg was greatest recognized for her work as Daybreak Summers in Buffy, the youthful sister of the title character performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar between 2000 and 2003.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Michelle Trachtenberg in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Pic: Rex/twentieth Century Fox/Everett/Shutterstock
Between 2008 and 2012, she performed Georgina Sparks on Gossip Lady – the malevolent rival of Blake Energetic’s Serena van der Woodsen and Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf.
She additionally starred within the film 17 Once more, the place she portrayed daughter Maggie O’Donnell, comedy movie Eurotrip and the 2005 teen movie Ice Princess.
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Blake Energetic and Michelle Trachtenberg in Gossip Lady. Pic: Rex/CW Community/Everett/Shutterstock
Trachtenberg thanked Gellar for talking out in opposition to Joss Whedon in 2021, following abuse allegations made in opposition to 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 behaviour” she skilled as a teenage actor.
In the meantime, her co-star on Gossip Lady Ed Westwick stated in an Instagram Story that he was “so sad to hear of the passing of Michelle Trachtenberg sending prayers”.
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Ed Westwick’s tribute to Trachtenberg on Instagram. Pic: Instagram/@edwestwick
Trachtenberg’s first large break into Hollywood got here in 1996, starring within the large display adaptation of Harriet the Spy.
In 2001, she obtained a Daytime Emmy nomination for internet hosting Discovery’s Reality or Scare.
Her most up-to-date movie look got here final yr when she performed the position of Michelle Cody White in Spyral.
Trachtenberg posted on social media in latest months to inform followers she was OK regardless of issues that she appeared frail.
She responded to at least one commenter: “Did you lose a calendar and not realise I’m not 14. I’m 38.”
