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Michelle Trachtenberg’s Comic Timing Shined Bright, From ‘Buffy’ to ‘Gossip Girl’ to Nickelodeon
The "Harriet the Spy" star died at age 39
Later, on “Gossip Girl,” Trachtenberg’s Georgina Sparks was a gleeful agent of chaos — taking the fast-ticking mind and the acuity with a sharp insult that the actress had exhibited in “Harriet the Spy” and flipping it on its head. As someone not far removed from Trachtenberg’s own age, I remember her rise very clearly; a behind-the-scenes video that aired frequently on Nickelodeon, which produced “Harriet the Spy,” lodged itself into my skull. Though she worked infrequently and in lower-wattage projects in recent years, Trachtenberg, to her age cohort, is immediately identifiable with multiple moments.
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