Hollywood.com

January 17, 2002


MICHELLE CONSIDERS HER FUTURE

by Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

Michelle Trachtenberg, who plays the kid sister on UPN's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is growing up and changing her mind a bit about her goals. She had set her sights set on going to Yale and studying theater and English. But when she turned 16 last month, she says, "I realized I wanted to consider other colleges and decide what subjects I really wanted to study. I know what to do before the cameras. Now I want to learn what to do behind them. I'm even thinking of taking a year off after I graduate high school -- I'm a junior now -- and maybe making a movie in a place like Italy, that would give me a chance to travel and work at the same time. Education is important to me. So is work. But the most important thing in my life is my family - my mother, my sister, my father and my cat, Casey. I'm feeling particularly grateful for them now at Thanksgiving time."


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