Trachtenberg made her first television appearance at the age of three, in a commercial for Wisk Detergent.[13] She went on to feature in over 100 more commercials.[13] She appeared in her first credited role as Nona F. Mecklenberg on the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete from 1994 until 1996. During the same period she played Lily Montgomery on the soap operaAll My Children,[14] in which she first worked with future Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar.[10]
In April 2006 Trachtenberg guest-starred in the episode of House, M.D., "Safe". She revealed on the December 22, 2006, episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien that House was her favorite show, she was friends with one of the producers and she asked to be a guest star.[16]
In November 2006, Trachtenberg guest-starred in the sixth season of the Emmy-nominated crime drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In the episode "Weeping Willow", she played the role of Willow, a kidnapped video blogger based on lonelygirl15.[citation needed] Trachtenberg also made a cameo in the Fall Out Boy music video for "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" (with fellow Buffy cast member Seth Green), Joaquin Phoenix-directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside, and Trapt's video Echo. In December 2006, Trachtenberg starred in Black Christmas, the remake of the 1974 slasher of the same name. In 2007, she was cast as the female lead in an ABC comedy pilot called The Hill, set in Washington, D.C.[17] Trachtenberg provided the voice of Tika Waylan for Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, a direct-to-video animated movie based on the novel of the same name.[18]
Trachtenberg appeared on The CW hit show Gossip Girl as Georgina Sparks, who recently left rehab and brings back the dark past Serena van der Woodsen desperately wants to leave behind.[19] She returned to the show for a multi-episode story arc towards the end of the second season.[20] Trachtenberg appeared in the season 3 finale and the season 4 premiere.[21] In 2009, Trachtenberg was a cast member on the NBC drama Mercy. The series was not renewed for a second season.
On June 9, 2011, Trachtenberg guest-starred on Love Bites as Jodie, who, after being unceremoniously dumped, decides - with a vengeance - to accept her ex's offer to 'be friends'. She reprised the role on June 16, 2011, where Jodie augments her friend Annie's bust with so-called chicken cutlets - which later embarrassingly slip out. She finally reprised the role on July 21, 2011, in the series finale, where Jodie and her on-again boyfriend are tormented - to the point of homelessness - by bedbugs. On June 28, 2011, it was announced Trachtenberg would guest star on Weeds during its seventh season.[22] Her character Emma is a rival pot dealer who causes problems for Silas Botwin. In June 2012, Trachtenberg was cast opposite Katie Cassidy, Gina Gershon, and Eliza Dushku in the upcoming film The Scribbler, directed by John Suits and produced by Gabriel Cowan.[23] On January 16, 2013 Trachtenberg made a guest appearance on the CBS drama Criminal Minds as Spencer Reid's girlfriend's stalker.
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