Gossip Girl star Michelle Trachtenberg has died aged 39, it has been reported.
Police sources said her death is not being investigated as suspicious.
It’s claimed she was found by her mother around 8am local time on Wednesday in a luxury apartment complex on Central Park South in Manhattan, New York.
Her cause of death has not been confirmed but an autopsy will be conducted by the medical examiner’s officer, police told ABC news.
It’s believed she died of natural causes and no foul play is suspected.
Sources told the publication that the actress recently underwent a liver transplant.
Trachtenberg began her acting career as a child, appearing in commercials from the age of three before her film debut in 1996, starring in Harriet the Spy.
She went on to play Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl and Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She held more than 60 credits across her career, including in 17 Again and TV shows Weeds and Guidance.
One of Trachtenberg’s first TV roles came on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1991 to 1996, before her titular role in Harriet the Spy.
She also appeared in Ice Princess and EuroTrip, and one of her most recent roles included voicing Judy Reilly in Human Kind Of.
Trachtenberg had been posting on social media just a week ago, and on February 18 had shared a throwback picture of her wearing a green gown and sparkly earrings, writing: ‘I wanted to look like naughty #tinkerbell #throwback.’
Days earlier, she shared another image, writing: ‘#sundayscaries ain’t got nothing on me!’
Metro has approached Trachtenberg’s reps for comment.
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