https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/26/michelle-trachtenberg-dead

The actor Michelle Trachtenberg, known for her performances in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Harriet the Spy, has died at the age of 39.

Police sources confirmed her death to both ABC News and the New York Post. There is no cause of death yet known, with police saying on Wednesday that the New York Medical Examiner was investigating the cause, but that no foul play was suspected. Trachtenberg had recently undergone a liver transplant, according to sources.

ABC reported that the actor’s mother found her at a New York apartment.

Trachtenberg was a child actor who started her career at the age of three in commercials before featuring in the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete and the soap opera All My Children.

She later scored her first lead film role in the comedy adventure Harriet the Spy alongside Rosie O’Donnell and J Smith-Cameron. Trachtenberg later said the shoot began on her 10th birthday. “There was a lot required of me,” she said in 2021. “I’m extremely grateful for the experience.”

J. Smith-Cameron said remembered her as “a very charming little girl”. “She was always very warm toward me. I feel very shocked and unsettled to hear of her passing,” she added.

Trachtenberg followed the film with a role in Inspector Gadget next to Matthew Broderick.

Comment: Oh dear, another celebrity close to my age has passed on. May She Rest in Peace.