From Teen - April 2001

Michelle Trachtenberg, 15
When the vampinator needed a lil' sis on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar recommended her friend, Michelle, from All My Children. As Dawn, Michelle is the key to all secrets in Sunnydale.

What birthday can't you want for?
"When I'm 18, I can be cruisin' the malls. I can do whatever with my friends."

What would you change about school?
"I would not take any subject that I wasn't planning to use in the future. Like, I don't want to take biology because I'll never be a doctor, or geometry because I won't be figuring out why angles in a triangle are congruent to other angles."

Any guilty pleasure?
"I love cheese. It's fatty and probably bad for your skin, but you know what? I love cheese."

What's your biggest question about guys?
"Why do they have to act so macho? I need a guy I can actually have a conversation with."