Michelle Trachtenberg died. It’s so sad. She was only 39. No children. Her dead body was found by her mother. Why did such a beautiful, talented, wealthy and successful woman live such a castrated life?
I was a great fan of her as an actress, and this saddens me a lot.
That I can believe. She has the look for it.
The best (if not the most colorful) story is that of Sarah Michelle Gellar who managed to remain normal after the experience.
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I knew her only from “Buffy”, a series that I loved enough, that I took an interest in the lives of the people who made it happen – though being in the movie industry, they were all involved in innumerable other projects that didn’t interest me. I find that there can be authors where you want to read everything they have written; and there can be auteur directors where you might want to see most of what they make; but even for my favorite actors, I have no desire to see their whole oeuvre. They count as favorites, just because they managed to be in more than one production that I really liked.
Personally, I would not be so quick to judge her life, just because she died childless. I have no knowledge of what yearnings ruled her spirit, or what constraints were at work in her life.
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Dying alone and being found by your mother – I mean, come on. There is no spirit that yearns for that.
Great fan of Buffy, too, and it’s fascinating how Buffy ended up so much more normal than Dawn.
Poor Dawn.
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If you read the scant information we have available, it seems that the people looking after her for the past five years were her mother and her agent, a considerably older man who, along with other members of his family, had survived organ transplants. So one might guess that for years already, her life had been shaped by knowledge of a serious illness. She was not alone in life, she was weakened but soldiering on, and death caught her suddenly. That’s the picture I have reconstructed.
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