Michelle Trachtenberg

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.

Born in New York City, she 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 Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. During the same period she played the second Lily Montgomery in All My Children. It was on All My Children that Trachtenberg first worked with future Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar.

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 and Can't Be Heaven. In 2000 she made Snow Day.

In Summer 2000 Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She remained in the role until the show's cancellation in 2003. Since Buffy she has returned to film, with the recent Eurotrip, co-starring Scott Mechlowicz and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff Schaffer.

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.

Filmography

  • Vinyl (2005) (in pre-production)
  • Ice Princess (2005) (in post-production)
  • Mysterious Skin (2004)
  • Eurotrip (2004)
  • Inspector Gadget (1999)
  • Harriet the Spy (1996)

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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. Her credits include:. Since Buffy she has returned to film, with the recent Eurotrip, co-starring Scott Mechlowicz and Travis Wester and directed by Jeff Schaffer. In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre. She remained in the role until the show's cancellation in 2003. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Land Girls (1998), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). In Summer 2000 Trachtenberg took up the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty.

In 2000 she made Snow Day. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget and Can't Be Heaven. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. She then returned to television for Meego, for which she won a Young Artist Award. Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the lead role in Harriet the Spy. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis.

It was on All My Children that Trachtenberg first worked with future Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. During the same period she played the second Lily Montgomery in All My Children. Stealing Beauty (1996). She played Nona Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. The Land Girls (1998). Her first credited role came in 1993. The Mummy (1999).

She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. Beautiful Creatures (2000). Born in New York City, she had her first television appearance in 1988 in a commercial for Wisk Detergent. Enemy at the Gates (2001). 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. The Mummy Returns (2001). Harriet the Spy (1996). About a Boy (2002).

Inspector Gadget (1999). Runaway Jury (2003). Eurotrip (2004). Mysterious Skin (2004). Ice Princess (2005) (in post-production).

Vinyl (2005) (in pre-production).