{"id":22583,"date":"2025-02-27T03:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22583"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:39:43","slug":"the-end-of-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-end-of-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Former <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> star Michelle Trachtenberg, who joined the main cast in the fifth season as Dawn, Buffy\u2019s younger sister\/mystical key, died yesterday in her New York City home at the age of 39.\u00a0 She was believed to have recently undergone a liver transplant and her death was attributed to natural causes, pending an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Trachtenberg earned early fame in the mid-90s, appearing on <em>The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete<\/em> on Nickelodeon and <em>All My Children<\/em> on ABC.\u00a0 In 1996, at the age of 10, she nabbed the title role in the film <em>Harriet the Spy<\/em>.\u00a0 She joined the cast of <em>Buffy<\/em> in 2000 and remained on the show until its conclusion in 2003.\u00a0 In 2004, she appeared as one of the leads in the teen comedy <em>EuroTrip<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the youngest main cast member by far, Trachtenberg is the first actor from the cult classic series to prematurely shuttle off this mortal coil.\u00a0 Earlier this month, a sequel series was announced at Hulu, with Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her role as Buffy on a recurring basis.\u00a0 There was no word if any other cast members, including Trachtenberg, would be involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Michelle Trachtenberg, who joined the main cast in the fifth season as Dawn, Buffy\u2019s younger sister\/mystical key, died yesterday in her New York City home at the age of 39.\u00a0 She was believed to have recently undergone a liver transplant and her death was attributed to natural causes, pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[68,12532,106,3007,12533,5699,8684,5320,828,12531],"class_list":["post-22583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-abc","tag-all-my-children","tag-buffy","tag-eurotrip","tag-harriet-the-spy","tag-hulu","tag-michelle-trachtenberg","tag-nickelodeon","tag-sarah-michelle-gellar","tag-the-adventures-of-pete-pete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22584,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22583\/revisions\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}