Michelle Trachtenberg, a onetime baby actor who starred in” Harriet the Secret” and” Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and afterward appeared in” Gossip Girl”, has died. She was 39.
According to a declaration from the police, Trachtenberg was found dead in her New York apartment on Wednesday night.
The artist was found dead by her mother around 8 a. m. at One Columbus Place, a 51-story comfort apartment complex on Central Park South, authorities said.
” Upon entry, officers observed a 39-year-old woman unconscious and indifferent. EMS arrived at the scene and declared the survivor dead. Crime is no suspected”, the speech said. An autopsy may be performed by the medical auditor.
She underwent a liver transplant lately, and according to ABC News, she passed away of natural causes and may have had complications.
Trachtenberg got her stop acting with tourist functions on” Law &, Order” and Nickelodeon’s” Clarissa Explains It All” in the early 1990s. She appeared in a few episodes of” All My Children” but rose to prominence on Nickelodeon series” The Adventures of Pete &, Pete”, making her feature film debut and getting her big break in the 1996 film” Harriet the Spy”, in which she starred alongside RosieO’Donnell, Gregory Smith and J. Smith-Cameron.
In the first 2000s, she played Sarah Michelle Gellar’s younger girl Dawn in Joss Whedon’s” Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, appearing in 66 shows of the WB Television set for three times. It is questionable if Trachtenberg was set to appear in the sequel , Gellar confirmed , was happening next month.
In 2021, Trachtenberg , spoke up about her experience , on the hit set in the midst of misconduct allegations made against Whedon, its father, by Gellar, her co-star Charisma Carpenter and DC Comics sun Ray Fisher.
Trachtenberg accused the writer and director of unacceptable, “very bad” conduct, though she did not specify his alleged activities. ” This had. Get known”, Trachtenberg wrote on Instagram, alleging that there was a law on set alleging that Whedon was” never allowed in a place only” with her.
“” What] Whedon ] did was very bad. But we win. By surviving! ” she wrote. Whedon eventually denied the claims.
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