Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is a Daytime Emmy and Saturn Award nominated American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the show's final three seasons, Penny in the 1999 film adaption of Inspector Gadget, and Harriet M. Welch in Harriet the Spy. Trachtenberg also played Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl, and she has recently ap...
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Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is a Daytime Emmy and Saturn Award nominated American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the show's final three seasons, Penny in the 1999 film adaption of Inspector Gadget, and Harriet M. Welch in Harriet the Spy. Trachtenberg also played Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl, and she has recently appeared in the movie 17 Again, as Maggie. She is currently one of the stars in the fall 2009 NBC drama Mercy.
Trachtenberg was born in New York City, the younger of two daughters of Lana, a bank manager, and Michael Trachtenberg, a fiber-optics engineer. Her father is from Germany and her mother was born in Russia; Trachtenberg can speak Russian fluently. Her family is Jewish and Trachtenberg celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah; her grandparents live in Israel. Trachtenberg was raised, along with older sister Irene, in Sheepshead Bay in...
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