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Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl (2008–present). She also appeared in the films Harriet the Spy (1996), EuroTrip (2004), Ice Princess (2005), the Black Christmas (2006) remake, and 17 Again (2009).
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. Trachtenberg 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, where she attended P.S. 99 Elementary School and The Bay Academy for the Arts and Sciences.
Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at the age of three, in a commercial for Wisk Detergent. She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. She appeared in her first credited role as Nona F. Mecklenberg on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. During the same period she played Lily Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children, in which she first worked with future Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Actors: Lem Collins (actor), Bill Pacer (actor), Walter Hendrix III (actor), Marcus E. Munroe (actor), Richard Tavernaro (actor), Ondie Daniel (producer), Ondie Daniel (actress), David Lee Denny Jr. (actor), Jevocas Green (producer), Timothy Douglas Perez (actor), Jevocas Green (costume designer), Jevocas Green (actor), Jevocas Green (writer), Jevocas Green (miscellaneous crew), Jevocas Green (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Demon, witches, vampires, zombies, and warlocks are banding together to overthrow the government and destroy all angels. The Government stays on their mission to take out all angels and demons, while the angels try to stop the government from killing innocent lives.
Genres: Action, Fantasy,