Michelle Trachtenberg’s Cause of Death Undetermined as Family Declines Autopsy

The cause of passing for Michelle Trachtenberg, the “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star, will stay undetermined as her family declined an dissection, Assortment has confirmed.

Families can decrease post-mortem examinations when there is no prove of foul play or for devout reasons. Agreeing to the NYPD, 39-year-old Trachtenberg was found “unconscious and unresponsive” at her Modern York City loft on Wednesday morning. The EMS at that point arrived and articulated her perished. Culpability was not suspected and, as such, her cause of passing will stay unknown.

Trachtenberg started acting at a youthful age, getting her begin in commercials at three a long time ancient some time recently landing her to begin with TV part on the Nickelodeon arrangement “The Enterprises of Pete & Pete” in the mid-’90s. At age 10, she scored her to begin with major film part with 1996’s “Harriet the Spy,” in which she played the title character. In the early 2000s, she played First light Summers on the adolescent dramatization “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” which she joined in its fifth season and remained portion of until its conclusion in 2003.

She moreover got to be well-known for her part on another high schooler show, “Gossip Girl,” as the contemptible Georgina Flashes. Her character repeated all through the show’s run from 2007 to 2012, and returned on the short-lived 2022 reboot for two scenes. Her other film credits incorporate 2004’s “Eurotrip,” 2005’s “Ice Princess” and 2009’s “17 Again” nearby Zac Efron.

Several of Trachtenberg’s co-stars, counting “Buffy” star Sarah Michelle Gellar, paid tribute to her on social media.

“Michelle, tune in to me. Tune in. I cherish you. I will continuously cherish you,” Gellar composed on Instagram went with by a photo exhibition of the two performing artists together in “Buffy.” “The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I will be courageous. I will live… for you”

“Trachtenberg’s inopportune passing, at 39, marks a section for millennials — she was one of the signature youthful stars with whom this era developed up,” composed Variety‘s chief journalist Daniel D’Addario. “On the cult-favorite Nickelodeon appear ‘The Enterprise of Pete & Pete,’ she given vacant balance to the show’s surrealist trappings. She permitted a way into the procedures on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ for youthful watchers, playing Buffy’s small sister First light, one of the show’s passionate fulcrums. Afterward, on ‘Gossip Girl,’ Trachtenberg’s Georgina Sparkles was a happy operator of chaos — taking the fast-ticking intellect and the keenness with a sharp offended that the performing artist had displayed in “Harriet the Spy” and flipping it on its head.”