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Birth Name:Michelle Christine Trachtenberg
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: October 11, 1985
Place of Birth: New York, USA
Height: 5' 7
Nationality: American

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Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg in September 2007
Born Michelle Christine Trachtenberg
October 11, 1985 (1985-10-11) (age 23)
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Years active 1991–present

Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer from seasons 5 through 7. She also played Georgina Sparks during the first season of Gossip Girl.

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Biography

Early life

Trachtenberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family,1 the younger of two daughters of Lana, a bank manager, and Michael Trachtenberg, a fiber-optics engineer.2 Her father is from Germany3 and her mother was born in Russia,4 and Trachtenberg can speak Russian fluently.4 Her family celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah;5 her grandparents live in Israel.6 Trachtenberg was raised, along with older sister Irene, in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn and attended P.S. 99 Elementary School and The Bay Academy for the Arts And Sciences Junior High School.

Career

Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at the age of three, in a commercial for Wisk Detergent.7 She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials.7 She appeared in her first credited role as Nona F. Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. During the same period she played Lily Montgomery in All My Children,8 in which she first worked with future Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar.5

Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the lead role in Harriet the Spy. She then returned to television for Meego, for which she won a Young Artist Award. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget, as the gadget-master's niece, Penny. She also starred in the film Can't Be Heaven. In the summer of 2000, Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She remained in the role until the show ended in 2003. After Buffy, she returned to film in the comedy movie EuroTrip, co-starring Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff Schaffer. She also had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for whom Keith Charles served as a bodyguard.

In March 2005, Trachtenberg played the title character in Walt Disney Pictures' family comedy–drama Ice Princess with Kim Cattrall. In this film, Trachtenberg plays a science whiz named Casey Carlyle who gives up her future academic life in order to chase her newfound dream of being a professional figure skater.

In November 2006, Trachtenberg guest-starred in the sixth season of the Emmy-nominated crime drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In the episode "Weeping Willow", she played the role of Willow, a kidnapped video blogger based on lonelygirl15. Trachtenberg also made a cameo in the Fall Out Boy music video for "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" (with Buffy the Vampire Slayer costar Seth Green), Joaquin Phoenix-directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside, and Trapt's video "Echo". She was recently cast as the female lead in an ABC comedy pilot called The Hill, set in Washington, D.C.9 Trachtenberg provided the voice of Tika Waylan for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-video animated movie based on the novel of the same name.10

Trachtenberg appeared on the CW hit show Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks, who recently left rehab and brings back the dark past Serena van der Woodsen desperately wants to leave behind.11

She also guest-starred in the the episode of House, M.D., "Safe". She revealed on the December 22, 2006, episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien that House is her favorite show, she is friends with one of the producers and she asked to be a guest star. Trachtenberg also said she has a crush on Hugh Laurie, and during the scene in the elevator in which House searches her genital area for a tick, Trachtenberg said she played a joke on Laurie by putting a note between her legs that read "I ♥ You".

She will appear in the 2009 movie 17 Again, alongside Zac Efron.

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
1995 Melissa Lena (uncredited)
1996 Harriet the Spy Harriet M. Welsch
1998 Richie Rich's Christmas Wish Gloria
1999 Inspector Gadget Penny
2000 A Father's Choice Kelly McClain
Can't Be Heaven Julie
2004 EuroTrip Jenny
Mysterious Skin Wendy
2005 Ice Princess Casey Carlyle
The Dive from Clausen's Pier Carrie Beal
2006 Beautiful Ohio Sandra
Black Christmas Melissa
2007 The Hill Maggie Rogers
2008 Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight Tika voice-only
The Circuit Kylie Shines
Young Americans Kitchelle Storms
Against the Current Suzanne
2009 17 Again Maggie O'Donnell

Television

Year Film Role Notes
1991 Law & Order Dinah Driscoll (uncredited)
1993 Clarissa Explains It All Elsie Soaperstein
1993 - 1996 All My Children Lilly Benton Montgomery #1
1994 - 1996 The Adventures of Pete & Pete Nona Mecklenberg
1996 Dave's World Angela
Space Cases Prankster #1
1997 Meego Maggie Parker
1998 Guys Like Us Katie
2000 - 2003 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dawn Summers
2004 Truth or Scare Herself
2004 Best Week Ever
Six Feet Under Celeste (4 episodes)
2006 House M.D. Melinda Bardach
Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lisa Willow Tyler
2006 to 2007 Robot Chicken Dina Lohan/Woman/Wife/Cleaning Woman/Woman/Mugging Victim/Gummi-Bear voice-only
2008 Gossip Girl Georgina Sparks

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  1. ^ Chesterton, Lucy (2008-06-22). "SPOTLIGHT - Michelle Trachtenberg", Sunday Telegraph. Retrieved on 9 September 2008. 
  2. ^ Michelle Trachtenberg Biography (1985-)
  3. ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2004/02/25/2004-02-25__buffy_s__sis_on_trach.html
  4. ^ a b Michael J. Lee (2005-05-24). "Michelle Trachtenberg: Interview". radiofree.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  5. ^ a b Kelly White (December 2000). "Under Michelle's spell". Girls' Life. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  6. ^ "Interview with James Marsters and Michelle Trachtenberg". contactmusic.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  7. ^ a b Koltow, Barry (1996-07-11). "DEFINING WHERE `HARRIET' ENDS, MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG BEGINS", Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved on 9 March 2008. 
  8. ^ "Find And Fight For Your Dream", CBS News (2005-03-18). Retrieved on 9 March 2008. 
  9. ^ "Trachtenberg goes to Washington in ABC comedy". Reuters (2007-03-08). Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
  10. ^ Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight at the Internet Movie Database
  11. ^ http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Gossip-Girl-Casts/800035799 Gossip Girl casts Buffy alumna Michelle Trachtenberg - Ausiello Report | TVGuide.com]

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NAME Trachtenberg, Michelle
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City, New York
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH