Personal Info
Birth date
1985-10-11 (39 Years)
Day of death
2025-02-26
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg
Μισέλ Κριστίν Τραχτενμπεργκ
Мішель Трахтенберг
Μισέλ Τραχτενμπεργκ
Мишель Трахтенберг
Michelle Trachtenberg
Biography
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (October 11, 1985 – February 26, 2025) was an American television and film actress. She is known for her roles as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl (2007–2012), and in the films Harriet the Spy (1996); Inspector Gadget (1999); EuroTrip (2004); Ice Princess (2005); Black Christmas (2006) and 17 Again (2009).
Filmography
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
5.136
Overview:
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
5.989
Overview:
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show airing weeknights at 12:35 am Eastern/11:35 pm Central on NBC in the United States. The hour-long show premiered on March 2, 2009, and is hosted by actor, comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, an alumnus of Saturday Night Live. Hip hop/neo soul band The Roots serve as the show's house band, and Steve Higgins is the show's announcer. The third incarnation of the Late Night franchise originated by David Letterman, the program originates from NBC Studio 6B in the GE Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. The show typically opens with a brief monologue from Fallon, followed by a comedy "desk piece," as well as prerecorded segments and audience competitions. The next segment is devoted to a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to media personalities and political figures. The show then closes with either a musical or comedy performance. The show frequently employs digital media into its comedy, which has become crucial to its success. Fallon has been appointed to become the next host of The Tonight Show, where he will succeed the current host Jay Leno at the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, with fellow SNL alum Seth Meyers slated to replace Fallon.Criminal Minds
8.306
Overview:
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.NCIS: Los Angeles
7.5
Overview:
The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.572
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.House
8.592
Overview:
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.178
Overview:
Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.The View
4.5
Overview:
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Overview:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.Six Feet Under
8.102
Overview:
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8.119
Overview:
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
7.855
Overview:
A half-hour satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.Blue's Clues
7.69
Overview:
Blue's Clues is a colorful and learning series that is targeted at the younger crowd, but can be enjoyed by all. The host, Steve Burns, invites viewers daily into the Blue's Clues house to help him out, learn and have fun. The show is based around the host looking for three clues that Blue provides by labelling them with a pawprint to figure something out and in the process, having an adventure.Gossip Girl
8.198
Overview:
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.The Wonderful World of Disney
6.741
Overview:
Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.Weeds
7.485
Overview:
After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.On Air with Ryan Seacrest
9.5
Overview:
On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated television talk show, which ran from January 12, 2004 through September 17, 2004. It was distributed in the United States and Canada by Twentieth Television.Dave's World
6.4
Overview:
Dave's World is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1993 to 1997. The series is based on the writing of Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry.Gossip Girl
7.3
Overview:
Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens are introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl.Sleepy Hollow
7.4
Overview:
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
7.4
Overview:
Hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, celebrity contestants spin the wheel and solve word puzzles for a chance to win up to one million dollars for charity.Reading Rainbow
8.39
Overview:
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.The Super Hero Squad Show
7.427
Overview:
The Super Hero Squad Show is an American cartoon series by Marvel Animation. It is based on the Marvel Super Hero Squad action figure line from Hasbro, which portray the Avengers, the X-Men, and various other characters of the Marvel Universe in a cartoonish super-deformed-style. It is also a self-aware parody of the Marvel characters, with influences taken from on the comedic Mini Marvels series of parody comic books, in that the heroes tend to find themselves in comedic situations, and have cartoonish bents in comparison to their usually serious personalities, and is an overall comedic take on the Avengers. The series' animation was produced by Film Roman and Marvel Animation.Punk'd
5
Overview:
What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads? Master prankster Ashton Kutcher is there to punk 'em down to earth.Guidance
4.429
Overview:
The truth behind a series of scandalous photos of Miriam, the most popular girl in school, unfolds through weekly sessions with the school’s guidance counselor, Anna.Hollywood Game Night
6.5
Overview:
Two contestants are transported from their everyday lives into a once-in-a-lifetime night of fun and celebration as they play party games with some of their favorite celebrities and compete for the chance to win up to $25,000.The Hills
4.8
Overview:
After high school graduation, "Laguna Beach" alumna Lauren sets out to live on her own in Los Angeles and work as an intern at Teen Vogue.Love Bites
6.4
Overview:
This romantic-comedy anthology series features three loosely connected, modern stories of love and dating. The series is anchored by the stories of Annie and Colleen, the last two single women remaining after all of their friends get married. Other romantically challenged characters come and go each week.The Rosie O'Donnell Show
3.533
Overview:
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.Acting
2024Spyral as Michelle Cody White (voice)
2023Unicorn Boy as Violet (voice)
2021Meet, Marry, Murder (13 Episodes) as Self - Host
2021Gossip Girl (2 Episodes) as Georgina Sparks
2021Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (1 Episode) as Self - Contestant
2020Showbiz Kids as Self (archive footage)
2018Human Kind Of (21 Episodes) as Judy (voice)
2016Sister Cities as Dallas Baxter
2015The Christmas Gift as Megan
2015Guidance (30 Episodes) as Anna
2014The Scribbler as Alice
2014Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1 Episode) as Voice Over (voice)
2013Killing Kennedy as Marina Oswald
2013Sleepy Hollow (1 Episode) as Abigail Adams
2013Hollywood Game Night (1 Episode) as Self
2013Sexy Evil Genius as Miranda Prague
2011Love Bites (1 Episode) as Jodie
2011Take Me Home Tonight as Kitchelle Storms
2010DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection as Bar Girl (segment "Jonah Hex") (voice)
2010DC Showcase: Jonah Hex as Bar Girl (voice)
2010Cop Out as Ava
2010Teenage Paparazzo as Self (uncredited)
2009Mercy (22 Episodes) as Chloe Payne
2009NCIS: Los Angeles (1 Episode) as Lily Lockhart
2009The Super Hero Squad Show (52 Episodes) as Valkyrie
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
200917 Again as Maggie O'Donnell
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (1 Episode) as Self
2009Against the Current as Suzanne
2008The Circuit as Kylie Shines
2008Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight as Tika (voice)
2007Gossip Girl (28 Episodes) as Georgina Sparks
2007May All Your Christmases Be Black as Self
2006Black Christmas as Melissa Kitt
2006Beautiful Ohio as Sandra
2006The Hills (1 Episode) as Herself
2005Criminal Minds (2 Episodes) as Diane Turner
2005Weeds (5 Episodes) as Emma Karlin
2005The Dive from Clausen's Pier as Carrie Beal
2005Mysterious Skin as Wendy Peterson
2005Ice Princess as Casey Carlyle
2004House (1 Episode) as Melinda Bardach
2004EuroTrip as Jenny
2004Best Week Ever (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2004On Air with Ryan Seacrest (1 Episode) as Self
2003Punk'd (1 Episode) as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001Truth or Scare (20 Episodes) as Self - Host
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Lisa Willow Tyler
2001Six Feet Under (4 Episodes) as Celeste
2000Can't Be Heaven as Julie
2000A Father's Choice as Kelly McClain
1999Inspector Gadget as Penny
1998Richie Rich's Christmas Wish as Gloria
1998Guys Like Us (13 Episodes) as Katie
1997The Wonderful World of Disney (1 Episode) as Unknown
1997Meego (13 Episodes) as Maggie Parker
1997The View (1 Episode) as Self
1997Buffy the Vampire Slayer (66 Episodes) as Dawn Summers
1996A Holiday for Love as Noelle Murphy
1996Blue's Clues (1 Episode) as Unknown
1996Harriet the Spy as Harriet M. Welsch
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1996Space Cases (1 Episode) as Unknown
1995MADtv (1 Episode) as Self
1995Melissa as Lena
1994The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Halloweenie as Nona Mecklenberg
1993The Adventures of Pete & Pete (14 Episodes) as Nona Mecklenberg
1993Dave's World (1 Episode) as Angela
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1990Law & Order (1 Episode) as Dinah Driscoll (uncredited)
1983Reading Rainbow (1 Episode) as Herself - Narrator (voice)
Production
2015Guidance (30 Episodes) ... Executive Producer