Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl actress Michelle Trachtenberg has died aged 39, according to The Post.
Trachtenberg’s death is not being investigated as suspicious, police sources said.
ABC News reported that her mother found Trachtenberg dead on Wednesday in her New York City apartment, near Columbus Circle. Trachtenberg reportedly recently underwent a liver transplant and may have been experiencing complications, ABC News said.
Trachtenberg is believed to have died of natural causes and no foul play is suspected, ABC News added, with an autopsy set to determine the cause and manner of death.
At the age of nine, Trachtenberg appeared in 1990s Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete before making her film debut in 1996’s Harriet the Spy.
Trachtenberg famously played Dawn Summers, the younger sister of Sarah Michelle Geller’s Buffy, in teen drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer from 2000 until the show ended in 2003, and Jenny in 2004 American teen sex comedy EuroTrip. In 2005 she played Casey Carlyle in teen sports comedy-drama film Ice Princess.
More recently, Trachtenberg played Georgina Sparks in teen drama television series Gossip Girl, which ran from 2007 to 2012, and returned to the role for the second season of HBO Max’s standalone sequel series.
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