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Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Actor, Dies at 39
Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor best known for "Gossip Girl," "Ice Princess" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," died at age 39.
By age 10, she scored her first starring film role in 1996’s “Harriet the Spy,” in which she played the eponymous aspiring sleuth opposite Rosie O’Donnell, J. Smith-Cameron. Trachtenberg’s breakthrough, however, was playing Dawn Summers on the teen drama “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which ran on the WB in the early aughts. Her character, a diabolical Manhattan socialite, reguarly found herself feuding, or blackmailing, with Blake Lively’s Serena Van Der Woodsen and Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf.
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