What Has Michelle Trachtenberg Been Doing Since ‘Gossip Girl’? The Former ‘Buffy’ Star Has Been Busy
In the age of ceaseless nostalgia, it was only a matter of time before Entertainment Weekly decided to celebrate a certain, vampire slaying pop culture classic by reuniting Buffy cast for a magazine shoot. And since you follow Sarah Michelle Gellar and the more major members of the cast on Instagram, you’re probably left wondering about the actors who incarnated less meaty roles. Namely, what is Michelle Trachtenberg doing now? For a while, she was one of the more high profile members of the cast on TV after Buffy the Vampire Slayer eventually expired, stake in its heart, on May 20, 2003.
Heck, you might not even remember her as once playing Dawn Summers in Buffy, because her performance as Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl totally eclipsed it. If you’re wondering how playing a sociopath eclipses playing a mystical form of energy disguised as a teenage girl, well. You clearly haven’t watched Trachtenberg play a manipulative socialite who popped up on The CW show every time things got a little too relaxing on the Upper East Side. But Gossip Girl was a long, long time ago; we’re talking half a decade ago, now. And you know an actor as talented as this one hasn’t been resting on her…