 Michelle played Dawn Summers. Michelle started acting in commercials when she was just three years old. She grew up in New York but moved to Los Angeles. She appeared for two years on the soap All My Children as Lily Montgomery, alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar. Michelle starred in the movies Harriet the Spy, Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish and Inspector Gadget before landing the role as Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has since been in the movies Eurotrip, The Ice Princess and Mysterious Skin and the TV show Six Feet Under, and the TV movie The Dive From Clausen’s Pier (with Sean Maher from Firefly). Played: Dawn SummersDate of birth: 11 October, 1985 Appeared in: Every episode in season five, six and seven |
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| Added: | › 30th August 2004 |
| Updated: | › 27th March, 2006 |
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November 7th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
I know some people will crucify me for this but I watched Eurotrip on Saturday night and thought it was actually really funny.
Both me and Simon (my hubby) laughed almost all the way through it.
I have a weird sense of humour!
November 15th, 2005 at 11:34 am
haha No, that movie was silly but funny ;)
But I think Michelle is a VERY bad actress, I really don’t get how she even mange to get a part in Buffy.
And her crying scens is the worst ever!
Sarah and Alyson is so amazing on this area that it looks even worse with her.
November 15th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
I don’t think she’s that bad. People complain about how bratty and whiny and annoying Dawn is.
I think she’s supposed to be. If we hate her because of that, then she must be doing something right.
My boyfriend said it best, regardless of how we feel about Dawn, that is EXACTLY the kind of sister she would have.
November 17th, 2005 at 1:28 am
I personally think that Michelle is one GREAT actress
she played Dawn as a annoying teenager really good!
and the growed up Dawn she played it even better!
November 17th, 2005 at 10:05 am
She really is a very good actress. Just look at the different emotions that she had to play. She had more to do than just be annoying (I think that the character was annoying only for about four weeks, personally). This is a realistic character, aside from the whole key-thing. She is at her best during the lonliness of season six, but Michelle Trachtenberg did a great job during her entire run on the show. That is just one opinion, however.
November 18th, 2005 at 6:29 am
I was pretty annoyed with her character in the 5th season too, but that was the whole point, as others have said. She was supposed to be annoying. It would have been one thing if the character she played stayed like that during her entire run on the show, but she didn’t. The character of Dawn developed and matured just as much as most of the characters on the show. By the end of the series she was a completely different — and much more likeable — person. Just my opinion!
November 18th, 2005 at 3:28 pm
I agree with the last 2 comments…
although I fell in love with Dawn the minute I saw her…
something fresh and new…
and how she was written in the show was sooo original!
November 18th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
LMAO!
those 2 scenes are just typical Dawn comments…
but in the beginning of season 5 I was confused (like everyone I guess) but just the fact that they wrote someone in the show and that made us and the characters believe that she was there all the time was something original..
She played the scenes where she found out that she was the key, in Blood ties, brilliant… Michelle can bring a lot of emotion to the screen…
but my fave Michelle episodes are probably Potential (beautifull speech from Xander to Dawn at the end) and Conversation with dead people (here she showed that she is more then Buffy’s little sister)
December 27th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Personally, I loved Eurotrip. It’s definitely in my top 3 of favourite films. It’s funny from start to end. The only reason I watch most films is because they’ve got a Buffy character in it. I end up liking it usually (apart from the exception of Dead & Dying, awful).
December 27th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
yes, the best films including buffy charachters (that i have seen) are , ‘The Grudge’ ‘Cruel intentions’ and ‘Euro trip’ i love the scene on the train on euro trip when they go through the tunnels comic genius!!! and when the guys were driving on the wrong side of the road in France haha!!
December 27th, 2005 at 11:20 pm
Mi Scuzi, Mi Scuzi. That’s my best mate’s favourite part as well.
December 27th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
hahaha, thats a catchphrase lol, plus the robot guy!!! how funny!!
December 27th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Extremely. I like the bit in the club with the green fairy (obviously a pisstake from Moulin Rouge). I hate Scott’s little brother: “I’m gonna get the video camera for this” Grrrrrrr!
December 27th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
lol the flugenheim!!!!! in the Amsterdam S&M place LMAO, ‘we cannot let you go unless you say the safe word’ (or something like that)
December 30th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
I know that I complain a lot on Michelle and for that Im sorry Michelle lovers, but I just HATE her girlie screams. Makes my want to kill myself.
December 31st, 2005 at 12:26 am
They kinda hurt my ears but I guess it’s kinda hard to change your scream. You could if you wanted too but it’s hard I bet.
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:06 am
Okay the only reason why i started watching buffy was becuz of her and i still like her untill i heard that she killed willow and tara’s cat AHHHHHH but i still like her
June 8th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
She was also in an episode of House about a month & a half ago!!!!
June 11th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Greetings everybody here and hopefully also at the forum.
Now where or when did Dawn kill Kitty Fantastico?
June 11th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Greeting Ebdim. There was a line in “End of Days” in which she stated: “Xander, my crossbow is not out here. I told you, I don’t leave crossbows around all willy-nilly. Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico,” obviously implying that Miss Kitty met a bad end on this occasion.