Michelle
Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an
American television and film actress who is perhaps best
known for her roles as Dawn Summers from the television
series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nona F. Mecklenberg in
The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and Jenny in
Eurotrip.
Early life: Trachtenberg was born in New York
City. Her father, Michael Trachtenberg, is a fiberoptics
engineer, and her Russian-born mother, Lana, is a former
actress turned puppeteer. Trachtenberg can speak Russian
fluently. She is of Jewish heritage and celebrates both
Christmas and Hanukkah; her grandparents live in
Israel.Trachtenberg was raised, along with older sister
Irene, in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn and attended Bay
Academy Junior High School. She has a half-brother, Dan
who hosts the internet video blog, Totally Rad Show
Career: Trachtenberg had her first television
appearance in 1988 in a commercial for Wisk Detergent.
She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. Her
first credited role came in 1993. She played Nona F.
Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from
1994 until 1996. During the same period she played Lily
Montgomery in All My Children. It was on All My Children
that Trachtenberg first worked with future Buffy
co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar.
A New York based child actor who had her juiciest chance
as the title role in the 1996 feature film "Harriet
the Spy", Michelle Trachtenberg moved into
primetime series in the fall of 1997 playing one of
three children who choose the extraterrestrial Bronson
Pinchot to be their nanny on "Meego" (CBS).
Trachtenberg has been acting since the age of four, when
she broke into the business the way so many other kid
actors have--through TV commercials. By the time she was
eight, Trachtenberg was appearing regularly on the
Nickelodeon series "The Adventures of Pete &
Pete" and also did two years in the recurring role
of the autistic Lily Montgomery on the daytime drama
"All My Children" (ABC).
She made her TV-movie debut in "Christmas in My
Hometown" (CBS, 1996) and has also guest starred on
"Law & Order" (NBC). But it was as the
fearless investigator being nurtured by Rosie O'Donnell
in "Harriet the Spy"—Nickelodeon's first
feature film—that Trachtenberg joined the ranks of
viable kid star performers. Her profile was raised
higher in 2000, when she joined the cast of the popular
cult series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in its
last season on The WB (2000-01). playing the title
character's hitherto unknown sister Dawn.
When the series jumped network to UPN in the fall of
2001, Trachtenberg was along, continuing to assist her
older sibling in the fight against supernatural
creatures. In 1999, she appeared as Penny in
“Inspector Gadget”, the live-action rendition of the
popular cartoon. After traipsing the Old World in the
long forgotten teen sex comedy “Eurotrip”, she
starred in “Ice Princess” (2005) as a high school
student who puts her Harvard ambitions on hold to pursue
dreams of becoming a champion ice skater.
Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the lead
role in Harriet the Spy. She then returned to television
for Meego, for which she won a Young Artist Award. She
returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget, as the
gadget-master's niece, Penny. She also starred in the
film Can't Be Heaven.
In the summer of 2000, Trachtenberg took up the role of
Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She remained
in the role until the show ended in 2003. After Buffy,
she returned to film in EuroTrip, co-starring Scott
Mechlowicz and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff
Schaffer. She also had a recurring role in the HBO
series Six Feet Under as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for
whom Keith Charles serves as a bodyguard.
A recent role in a feature film was in March 2005, where
she played the title character in Walt Disney Pictures'
family comedy/drama Ice Princess with Kim Cattrall. In
this film, Trachtenberg plays a science whiz named Casey
Carlyle who gives up her future academic life in order
to chase her lifelong dream of being a professional
figure skater.
In November 2006, Trachtenberg guest starred in the
sixth season of the Emmy-nominated crime drama Law &
Order: Criminal Intent. In the episode "Weeping
Willow", she played the role of Willow, a kidnapped
video blogger based on lonelygirl15. Trachtenberg also
made a cameo in the Fall Out Boy music video for
"This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race". She
was recently cast as the female lead in an untitled ABC
comedy pilot set in Washington, DC.
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