In November 2006, Trachtenberg guest starred in season six of the crime drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

She revealed on the December 22, 2006, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien that House was her favorite show, and that she was friends with one of the producers and had asked to be a guest star. In April 2006, Trachtenberg guest-starred in the episode of House, ' Safe'. The film debuted at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. Wendy is the best friend of Neil ( Joseph Gordon Levitt), a teenage hustler in small-town Kansas. In 2004, Trachtenberg played Wendy in Gregg Araki's film adaptation of Scott Heim's novel, Mysterious Skin. In March 2005, she starred in Walt Disney Pictures' comedy sports drama film Ice Princess as Casey Carlyle, a science whiz, who is torn between a future in academia and her newfound dream of being a professional figure skater. She also had a recurring role in the HBO series Six Feet Under, as Celeste, a spoiled pop star for whom Keith Charles served as a bodyguard. She also hosted the Discovery Kids series Truth or Scare from 2001 to 2003.Īfter Buffy and Truth or Scare, Trachtenberg appeared in the comedy film EuroTrip. In the summer of 2000, she took on the role of Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, remaining in the role until the show ended in 2003. She also starred in the film Can't Be Heaven. She returned to film in 1999 for Inspector Gadget. She then starred in the short-lived television series Meego, which garnered her a Young Artist Award. Trachtenberg's film career began in 1996 with the title role in Harriet the Spy, for which she had to leave The Adventures of Pete & Pete while its third season was running. During the same period she played Lily Montgomery on the soap opera All My Children. Mecklenberg on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. Her first television role was in the second season of Law & Order her first credited role was as Nona F. She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials. Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at the age of three, in a commercial for Wisk detergent. She later attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California.

She was raised with her older sister, Irene, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where she attended junior high school at The Bay Academy for the Arts and Sciences.

Trachtenberg's grandparents reside in Israel, but she celebrates Christmas and 'all' religions, having gone to a Catholic high school because, she said, tuition was cheaper than the Jewish one. Jewish immigrants from Russia and Germany, respectively.

Trachtenberg was born in New York City, the younger of two daughters of Michael, a fiber optics engineer, and Lana, a bank manager.

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