Sarah Michelle Gellar has paid tribute to her former Buffy The Vampire Slayer co-star Michelle Trachtenberg following her death Wednesday at the age of 39.
’Michelle, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you,” Gellar wrote in an Instagram post alongside a carousel of photos from their time together. “The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. I will be brave. I will live… for you.’”
Trachtenberg was found unresponsive at her New York City apartment Wednesday and pronounced dead at the scene. No foul play was suspected and the New York Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death, police said.
Trachtenberg joined Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the cult WB fantasy series’ fifth season in 2000 as Dawn Summers, the younger sister to Gellar’s Buffy. The show aired from 1997 to 2003, first on the WB and concluding on UPN.
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She went on to many more notable roles including the 2004 cult comedy EuroTrip and the Disney sports drama Ice Princess, where she played a bookish teen discovering her passion for figure skating. In 2008, she joined Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks, the manipulative and unpredictable troublemaker who frequently threw the lives of the Upper East Side elite into chaos.
Trachtenberg’s other Buffy co-stars, including Blake Lively and James Marsters to David Boreanaz. also mourned the actress Wednesday, along with many others.
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