RIP: Michelle Trachtenberg, aged 39

[thewayne]

Michelle was found in her New York City apartment unresponsive. No cause of death has been announced. For a 39 year old, she has been an actor for 36 of those years! Perhaps most famously for Gossip Girl and Harriet The Spy, for me she will always be Dawn Summers, Buffy's kid sister in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I remember the utter shock of the reveal that *BOOM* Buffy has a sister? It was an amazing twist in a great TV series, and she was fantastic in that show. It's additionally sad as it's entirely possible that Buffy may be seeing a relaunch with Sarah Michelle Geller coming up: talks are in progress with a good producer, not Joss Wheden.

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