Michelle Trachtenbergthe iconic 90s Nickelodeon star in TV The series “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” and the movie “Harriet The Spy” have died at the age of 39 according to several reports.
Page six First, the news reported that Trachtenberg, who also appeared in the series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and CW’s original “Gossip Girl”, was found dead in Los Angeles. Her death is not investigated as suspicious, according to the outlet, but no cause of death has yet been shared. Variation and deadline also reported on the news.
Trachtenberg had largely been of the film and television ramp light since the mid-2010 canceled 2023 after two seasons. She played in almost 30 episodes of the CW series as a calculating socialite Upper East Side. Before that, from 2000 to 2003, she had a leading role on WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as Dawn Summers, a vampire that entered the show at the beginning of her fifth season.
However, Trachtenberg was loved by many for her children who act in “Harriet The Spy” as a sixth class student and future Sleuth opposite Rosie O’Donnell as her grandson. Trachtenberg also played in the family movie “Inspector Gadget” and the crude teenage sex comedy “Eurotrip” before she got her most mature film role so far in Gregg Araki’s cult classical portrait of child sex addiction, “Mysterious skin. “She played the best friend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character, a queer small town of a teenager moving to New York to become a Hustler.
Trachtenberg also had a recurring role in season 4 of “Six Feet under” because the spoiled pop star to whom the case COP turned security detail Keith Charles (Mathew St. Patrick) personally assigned. She also had roles on TV’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Love Bites” Chronicles. She was nominated for several Teen Choice Awards throughout her career before she largely went back from Hollywood, other than the reboot of “Gossip Girl”, in recent years.
