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Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Trachtenberg was born on the 11th October 1985 in New York.
Early roles include parts in All My Children as Lilly Benton Montgomery, Clarissa Explains It All in the episode called "Babysitting" as Elsie Soaperstein with Melissa Joan Hart, Law & Order in the episode entitled "God Bless the Child" as Dinah Driscoll and in The Adventures Of Pete And Pete as Nona Mecklenberg opposite Danny Tamberelli and Michael C. Maronna.
Other roles include Space Cases in the episode called "All You Can Eaty" with Walter Jones and Danny Tamberelli, Dave's World in the episode entitled "Solitaire" as Angela opposite Harry Anderson and in Harriet The Spy as Harriet M. Welch alongside Gregory Smith and Rosie O'Donnell.
Another appearance was in Christmas In My Hometown as Noelle Murphy with Melissa and Tim Matheson and also in Meego in the episode called "Halloween" as Maggie Parker alongside Jonathan Lipnicki and Ed Begley Jr.
Another role was in Guys LIke Us in the episode entitled "Maestro's First Crush" as Katie with Linda Cardellini and also in Richie Richs Chrsitmas Wish as Gloria.
She has also been in Inspector Gadget as Penny with Matthew Broderick, Joely Fisher and Rupert Everett, Can't Be Heaven as Julie opposite Diane Ladd and Kaley Cuoco and in A Father's Choice as Kelly McClain alongside Peter Strauss.
Michelle has appeared as Buffy's younger sister Dawn in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and was in : Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 5, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 7 alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, David Boreanaz, Emma Caulfield, Eliza Dushku and James Marsters.
She also starred in the follow ups to Buffy with the rest of the cast members in the musical Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Once More With Feeling, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Best Of Buffy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Faith, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Spike, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Slayer Collection: Willow, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Cordelia, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Giles, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Xander and Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Dawn.
Other roles include Euro Trip as Jenny with Jacob Pitts and Scott Mechlowicz, Best Week Ever in the episode called "50 Worst Songs, Britney's New Video And More" with Eli Roth and Rebecca Corry and in Six Feet Under as Celeste with Peter Krause and Michael C. Hall.
She has also appeared in The Dive From Clausen's Pier as Carrie Beal alongside Matthew Edison and Will Estes, Ice Princess as Casey Carlyle with Kim Cattrall and Joan Cusack and in Mysterious Skin as Wendy opposite Brady Corbett, Elisabeth Shue and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Another role was in House in the episode called "Safe" as Melinda Bardach with Hugh Laurie and she was also in Beautiful Ohio as Sandra opposite William Hurt and Rita Wilson.
Michelle has been in Law And Order: Criminal Intent in the episode entitled "Weeping Willow" as Lisa Willow Tyler and was in Black Christmas as Melissa with Kristen Cloke and Katie Cassidy.
Other roles are in The Hill as Maggie Rogers alongside Eric Christian Olsen, Dragonlance: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight as the voice of Tika with Lucy Lawless and Kiefer Sutherland and also lent her voice to the part of the woman and Dina Lohan in Robot Chicken.
She has been in Young Americans as Kitchelle Storms opposite Anna Faris and Topher Grace, The circuit as Kylie Shines along with Drew Fuller and Bill Campbell and in Against the Current as Suzanne with Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser and Joseph Fiennes.
Michelle has starred in 17 Again as Maggie O'Donnell with Matthew Perry, Zac Efron and Leslie Mann and in Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks opposite Blake Lively and Kristen Bell.
Michelle has starred in Cop Out as Ava Monroe with Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, and Seann William Scott and has lent her voice to the part of a valkyrie in The Super Hero Squad Show with Charlie Adler.
Another role has been in the hospital drama called Mercy as Chloe Payne alongside Taylor Schilling and Jaime Lee Kirchner.



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Michelle Trachtenberg - what members say


  • Euro Trip
  • Euro Trip review by A customer from england
    Rated - 5.0 stars funny as hell 20 February 2005
    ...omething on u' in the pool right thru to the end it had me laughing nonstop and Michelle Trachtenberg is SO hot! ...   Read customer review
  • Ice Princess
  • Ice Princess review by from London, UK
    Rated - 3.0 stars Live your own dream 17 August 2005
    ...Ice Princess is a sweet tale about a scientifically-minded teenage girl (Michelle Trachtenberg - Buffy's sister) and her dream to become an ice-skating champ. It's a lovely film goo...   Read customer review
  • Mysterious Skin
  • Mysterious Skin review by chungking from London,England
    Rated - 2.0 stars Twice the action, but half a film 2 January 2006
    ...itt, who with the film ‘Panic’, proved he was more than just a pretty face, and Michelle Trachtenberg who used to be in Buffy. Worth seeing. ...   Read customer review

Michelle Trachtenberg - filmography


  • Cop Out - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Jason Lee,  Michelle Trachtenberg
    Director: Kevin Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 4,043 members
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  • Cop Out on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Jason Lee,  Michelle Trachtenberg
    Director: Kevin Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 11,806 members
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  • Against the Current on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Joseph Fiennes,  Justin Kirk,  Elizabeth Reaser
    Director: Peter Callahan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Struggling with a tragic past, Paul Thompson (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love) decides to fulfill a lifelong dream and swim the length of the Hudson River. Joined by travel companion Jeff (Justin Kirk, TV's Weeds) and Liz (Elizabeth Reaser, the Twilight series), Paul embarks on an emotional ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 172 members
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  • 17 Again - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Matthew Perry,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Kaley Cuoco
    Director: Burr Steers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comedy starring Matthew Perry and Zac Efron. In 1989, Mike O'Donnell (Efron) is a popular high school senior, a star on the basketball court and looking forward to a bright future at college and beyond. But everything changes when he learns that his girlfriend Scarlett (Allison Miller) is pregnant, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,065 members
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  • 17 Again on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Matthew Perry,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Kaley Cuoco
    Director: Burr Steers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell is a star on his high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlett and the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 37,506 members
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  • Ice Princess on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Hayden Panettiere
    Director: Tim Fywell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen -- three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,761 members
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  • Euro Trip (2004)
    Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg,  Jacob Pitts,  Scott Mechlowicz
    Director: Jeff Schaffer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gross-out teen comedy from the makers of 'Old School' and 'Road Trip'. Two American teenagers, Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) and Cooper (Jacob Pitts), head off on a madcap journey to Europe when Scott discovers that his German pen-pal, Mieke (Jessica Böhrs) is a buxom blonde. There they hook up with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 13,714 members
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  • Mysterious Skin on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Brady Corbett,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Elisabeth Shue
    Director: Gregg Araki
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    "The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey, a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, KS. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 14,264 members
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  • Inspector Gadget on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Rupert Everett,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Joely Fisher
    Director: David Kellogg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    John Brown (Matthew Broderick) is an inept security guard employed by scientist Artemus Bradford and his daughter Brenda (Joely Fisher) to safeguard their work on the synthesis of robotics and human tissue. When the Bradfords' arch-rival Sanford Scolex steals their work, John gives chase, and both ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,941 member
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  • Harriet The Spy on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Connor Devitt,  Gregory Smith,  Rosie O'Donnell
    Director: Bronwen Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    11-year-old Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is encouraged in her writing aspirations by her nanny and friend Golly (Rosie O'Donnell), who tells her to write down everything she sees. This Harriet does with some gusto, but when her friends discover what Harriet has been writing about them in her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 652 members
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Michelle Trachtenberg facts

5 most recent films

Take Me Home Tonight - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Cop Out - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Take Me Home Tonight - 3.0 stars
Cop Out - 3.0 stars
Against the Current - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Once More With Feeling - 4.0 stars
17 Again - 3.5 stars
17 Again - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Mysterious Skin - 3.0 stars
Take Me Home Tonight - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Black Christmas - 2.5 stars
Against the Current - 2.5 stars
Inspector Gadget - 2.5 stars
Cop Out - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Cop Out - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nicholas Brendon - 89 times - show films
Emma Caulfield - 89 times - show films
James Marsters - 89 times - show films
Sarah Michelle Gellar - 89 times - show films
Seann William Scott - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David Solomon - 20 times - show films
James A. Contner - 12 times - show films
David Grossman - 10 times - show films
Nick Marck - 8 times - show films
Michael Gershman - 8 times - show films