Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her roles as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl (2007–2012), and in the films Harriet the Spy (1996); Inspector Gadget (1999); EuroTrip (2004); Ice Princess (2005); Black Christmas (2006) and 17 Again (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Trachtenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Mysterious Skin (2005)

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Connected through a dark past incident, a teenage gay hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths again years later.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gregg Araki
CAST:  Joseph Gordon-Levitt  •  Brady Corbet  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  David Lee Smith

Connected through a dark past incident, a teenage gay hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths again years later.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gregg Araki
CAST:  Joseph Gordon-Levitt  •  Brady Corbet  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  David Lee Smith

Black Christmas (2006)

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Glen Morgan
CAST:  Katie Cassidy  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Kristen Cloke  •  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Glen Morgan
CAST:  Katie Cassidy  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Kristen Cloke  •  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008)

A barbarian woman with a miraculous blue crystal staff gains the help of a group of adventurers as an army of dragons invades the land of Krynn.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Will Meugniot
CAST:  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Lucy Lawless  •  Michael Rosenbaum  •  Fred Tatasciore

A barbarian woman with a miraculous blue crystal staff gains the help of a group of adventurers as an army of dragons invades the land of Krynn.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Will Meugniot
CAST:  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Lucy Lawless  •  Michael Rosenbaum  •  Fred Tatasciore

EuroTrip (2004)

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Schaffer
CAST:  Scott Mechlowicz  •  Jacob Pitts  •  Kristin Kreuk  •  Cathy Meils

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeff Schaffer
CAST:  Scott Mechlowicz  •  Jacob Pitts  •  Kristin Kreuk  •  Cathy Meils

Ice Princess (2005)

With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tim Fywell
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Joan Cusack  •  Amy Stewart  •  Hayden Panettiere

With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tim Fywell
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Joan Cusack  •  Amy Stewart  •  Hayden Panettiere

Inspector Gadget (1999)

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Kellogg
CAST:  Matthew Broderick  •  Rupert Everett  •  Joely Fisher  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Kellogg
CAST:  Matthew Broderick  •  Rupert Everett  •  Joely Fisher  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Richie Rich's Christmas Wish (1998)

After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Murlowski
CAST:  David Gallagher  •  Eugene Levy  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Keene Curtis

After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Murlowski
CAST:  David Gallagher  •  Eugene Levy  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Keene Curtis

The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)

After her boyfriend suffers a debilitating accident, a girl from Wisconsin moves to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Winer
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Sean Maher  •  Will Estes  •  Kristin Fairlie

After her boyfriend suffers a debilitating accident, a girl from Wisconsin moves to New York City to pursue her dream of becoming a fashion designer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Winer
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Sean Maher  •  Will Estes  •  Kristin Fairlie

Teenage Paparazzo (2010)

A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adrian Grenier
CAST:  Alec Baldwin  •  Austin Visschedyk  •  Matt Damon  •  Lindsay Lohan

A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adrian Grenier
CAST:  Alec Baldwin  •  Austin Visschedyk  •  Matt Damon  •  Lindsay Lohan

Can't Be Heaven (2000)

Everyone eventually meets the love of their lives. Sometimes, like Danny and Julia, that person comes along when you are 13 years old. Other times, like Hubbie and his sweetheart, star-crossed love makes getting together a life-long adventure. This heartwarming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Friedman
CAST:  Diane Ladd  •  Ralph Macchio  •  Rachel Ticotin  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Everyone eventually meets the love of their lives. Sometimes, like Danny and Julia, that person comes along when you are 13 years old. Other times, like Hubbie and his sweetheart, star-crossed love makes getting together a life-long adventure. This heartwarming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Friedman
CAST:  Diane Ladd  •  Ralph Macchio  •  Rachel Ticotin  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

A Holiday for Love (1996)

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jerry London
CAST:  Tim Matheson  •  Melissa Gilbert  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Jayne Eastwood

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jerry London
CAST:  Tim Matheson  •  Melissa Gilbert  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Jayne Eastwood

The Scribbler (2014)

Suki is a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Suits
CAST:  Katie Cassidy  •  Eliza Dushku  •  Sasha Grey  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Suki is a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Suits
CAST:  Katie Cassidy  •  Eliza Dushku  •  Sasha Grey  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Killing Kennedy (2013)

Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nelson McCormick
CAST:  Rob Lowe  •  Will Rothhaar  •  Ginnifer Goodwin  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nelson McCormick
CAST:  Rob Lowe  •  Will Rothhaar  •  Ginnifer Goodwin  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Sexy Evil Genius (2013)

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A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shawn Piller
CAST:  Seth Green  •  William Baldwin  •  Katee Sackhoff  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shawn Piller
CAST:  Seth Green  •  William Baldwin  •  Katee Sackhoff  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

A Father's Choice (2000)

The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Cain
CAST:  Peter Strauss  •  Mary McDonnell  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Yvonne Zima

The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Cain
CAST:  Peter Strauss  •  Mary McDonnell  •  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Yvonne Zima

DC Showcase: Jonah Hex (2010)

When a ruthless brothel madame murders Jonah Hex's current quarry, the disfigured bounty hunter plans to make her pay.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joaquim Dos Santos
CAST:  Thomas Jane  •  Linda Hamilton  •  Jason Marsden  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

When a ruthless brothel madame murders Jonah Hex's current quarry, the disfigured bounty hunter plans to make her pay.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joaquim Dos Santos
CAST:  Thomas Jane  •  Linda Hamilton  •  Jason Marsden  •  Michelle Trachtenberg

Cop Out (2010)

Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites—especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his daughter's wedding, Jimmy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kevin Smith
CAST:  Bruce Willis  •  Tracy Morgan  •  Juan Carlos Hernández  •  Seann William Scott

Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites—especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his daughter's wedding, Jimmy ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kevin Smith
CAST:  Bruce Willis  •  Tracy Morgan  •  Juan Carlos Hernández  •  Seann William Scott

Against the Current (2009)

Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Callahan
CAST:  Joseph Fiennes  •  Justin Kirk  •  Samantha Sherman  •  Elizabeth Reaser

Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Callahan
CAST:  Joseph Fiennes  •  Justin Kirk  •  Samantha Sherman  •  Elizabeth Reaser

Melissa (1995)

Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Binder
CAST:  Nicole Eggert  •  Rosemary Forsyth  •  Victor Slezak  •  Johnny La Spada

Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club where a sinister ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Binder
CAST:  Nicole Eggert  •  Rosemary Forsyth  •  Victor Slezak  •  Johnny La Spada

The Circuit (2008)

Al Shines, former king of the US race car track circuit, has a hard time starting his own team, once he's fired by his sponsor Robin Cates. Robin hired Al's immature daughter Kylie Shines instead. She resents Al's inevitable 'absence' as a widowed father, as well ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Werner
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Billy Campbell  •  Drew Fuller  •  Paul Rae

Al Shines, former king of the US race car track circuit, has a hard time starting his own team, once he's fired by his sponsor Robin Cates. Robin hired Al's immature daughter Kylie Shines instead. She resents Al's inevitable 'absence' as a widowed father, as well ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Werner
CAST:  Michelle Trachtenberg  •  Billy Campbell  •  Drew Fuller  •  Paul Rae
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