Michelle Trachtenberg

She had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for whom Keith serves as a bodyguard. White is well known as a pet enthusiast and animal-rights activist. Since Buffy she has returned to film, with the recent Eurotrip, co-starring Scott Mechlowicz and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff Schaffer. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden. She remained in the role until the show's cancellation in 2003. Overall, White has won five Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards. In Summer 2000 Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Golden Girls was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992.

In 2000 she made Snow Day. When NBC canceled Mama's Family in 1985, White would soon leave the show and score perhaps her most memorable role as the ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, a show about the lives of four widowed or divorced senior citizens in Miami. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget and Can't Be Heaven. From 1983 through 1986, she played Ellen Jackson on the moderate hit show Mama's Family along with future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan. She then returned to television for Meego, for which she won a Young Artist Award. In her later career, White played Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1973 to 1977. Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the lead role in Harriet the Spy. Both Password and Pyramid was created by White's friend, Bob Stewart.

It was on All My Children that Trachtenberg first worked with future Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar. White also made frequent game show appearances on What's My Line? (starting in 1955), To Tell the Truth (starting in 1961), Match Game (1973-1982) and Pyramid (starting in 1982). During the same period she played the second Lily Montgomery in All My Children. In the 1970s and 80s, White appeared on the updated versions of Password on NBC -- Password Plus and Super Password.. She played Nona Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. White is perhaps better known for her appearances on the hit gameshow Password, in which she was a regular as a panelist from 1961 through 1975; it was through her early appearances on Password that she met the show's host, Allen Ludden, whom she married in 1963 and remained with until his death in 1981. Her first credited role came in 1993. She also had her own show briefly in 1954 with the original Betty White Show.

She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. White's early television roles included her portrayal of Elizabeth on Life With Elizabeth in 1953 and as Vicki Angel on Date With the Angels in 1957 and 1958. Born in New York City, she had her first television appearance in 1988 in a commercial for Wisk Detergent. Elizabeth Marion (Betty) White (born January 17, 1922) is a notable American television actress with a career spanning over 50 years. Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985 in New York, United States) is an American television and movie actress best known for her role as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Harriet the Spy (1996).

Inspector Gadget (1999). Eurotrip (2004). Mysterious Skin (2004). Ice Princess (2005) (in post-production).

Vinyl (2005) (in pre-production).