From director David Lynch to actor Val Kilmer, 2025 has already lost several film figures who left indelible marks on audiences over the years. And for the millennial generation, no loss was arguably as heartbreaking as Michelle Trachtenberg’s.
The 39-year-old actress tragically died in New York City on February 26, 2005, from an undetermined cause.
And though the TV and film star left behind a memorable and decade-spanning body of work — including beloved series like the addictively soapy and stylish “Gossip Girl” and the acclaimed supernatural drama “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” as well as popular movies such as “Ice Princess”, “EuroTrip” and “Mysterious Skin” — one title stands out among the bunch: “Harriet the Spy”.”
The beloved 1996 flick saw Trachtenberg in one of her earliest film roles as 11-year-old aspiring spy and writer Harriet M. Welsch, but though aimed at kids, the Bronwen Hughes-directed movie
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