Hyderabad: Gossip Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer famed actor Michelle Trachtenberg is no more. The Hollywood actor was 39 years old. According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), she was found unconscious and unresponsive Wednesday in her Manhattan apartment.
In a statement, NYPD said officers responded to a 911 call shortly after 8 am, and emergency medical workers pronounced her dead at the scene. According to an international tabloid, she had recently undergone a liver transplant. However, the exact cause of death has not been confirmed, with NYPD ruling out any criminal involvement.
In a statement confirming her death, Trachtenberg's publicist Gary Mantoosh said, "It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away," adding, " Trachtenberg's family has asked for privacy during this trying time." Trachtenberg was born in 1985 in New York and started performing at a very young age.
She was 3 years old when she began appearing in commercials and soon after landed her first TV credit, on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which aired in the mid-1990s. At the age of 10, she got an opportunity to act in a movie, Harriet the Spy, which was released in 1996.
Trachtenberg's breakthrough, however, was playing Dawn Summers on the teen drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Trachtenberg joined the popular show in its fifth season and remained on it through its seventh and final season, which ended in 2003. She found further success in another teen drama, portraying the agent of chaos known as Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, which ran from 2007 to 2012.
Her other notable works include Eurotrip (2004) and 2009's 17 Again with Zac Efron and Matthew Perry. She also appeared in episodes of Law & Order, Clarissa Explains It All, All My Children, Six Feet Under and Weeds.
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