Buffy and Gossip Woman actress dies aged 39

Michelle Trachtenberg, who rose to fame as a baby star within the Nineties and 2000s, has died aged 39, the New York Police Division instructed CBS Information, the BBC’s US associate.

The American actress was greatest recognized for enjoying Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s youthful sister Daybreak Summers, and later took on the position of manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks in Gossip Woman – which ran from 2007 to 2012 – as an grownup.

Her dying isn’t being handled as suspicious, police stated.

Trachtenberg made her movie debut in Harriet the Spy in 1996, and she or he appeared in a number of Nickelodeon productions.

BBC Information has reached out to Trachtenberg’s representatives for remark.

Police in Manhattan stated they responded to an emergency name on Wednesday morning, they usually discovered Trachtenberg “unconscious and unresponsive”. She was “pronounced deceased on the scene”.

“Criminality isn’t suspected. The health worker will decide the reason for dying. The investigation stays ongoing,” the NYPD stated in a press release.

Trachtenberg obtained her begin in performing at three years outdated on the Nickelodeon tv collection The Adventures of Pete & Pete.

Within the early 2000s, she was nominated for a number of performing awards – together with a Daytime Emmy Award – for her position in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

She additionally starred in movies together with EuroTrip, Ice Princess, Killing Kennedy, and Sister Cities.

Trachtenberg first appeared in Gossip Woman in 2008. She returned to the position for 2 episodes of the second season of HBO Max’s reboot in 2023.

Her final main performing position was in 2021 because the host of a true-crime docuseries Meet, Marry, Homicide, which appeared on digital streamer Tubi.

In 2021, Trachtenberg accused Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon of inappropriate behaviour on set after her co-star Charisma Carpenter stated she had been left traumatised because of the therapy she acquired from Whedon.