Aug 19, 2026
Author Spotlight: Michelle Trachtenberg — The Child Star Who Survived to Tell Her Own Story
A deep dive on Michelle Trachtenberg — from a three-year-old in a Wisk commercial and the girl who played Harriet the Spy to Dawn Summers on Buffy, Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, and the science whiz of Ice Princess; her defining quotes on surviving child stardom without a stage mother, falling in order to grow, refusing to be just a pretty face, and the heartbreaking 'happy and healthy' of her final year, and the legacy of a performer who made it, improbably, to the other side.