Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg’s skating movie Ice Princess made the US box office top 10 recently, but her sporting prowess in the film wasn’t all that it seemed.

According to reports in Variety and the Chicago Sun Times, state-of-the-art effects created the illusion that Michelle could skate at a world-class level.

Effects supervisor Dennis Berardi revealed that, "Miss Trachtenberg indeed demonstrated considerable natural skating ability during filming, and her talents provided the foundation for our studio’s effects work. But Variety was correct. There were four different skaters who took the ice for Trachtenberg as well as extensive invisible visual effects. Our studio was responsible for seamlessly replacing the faces of the stund skaters with that of Miss Trachtenberg."

Michelle’s indie movie Mysterious Skin has recieved an 18-certificate rating for its UK release. Director Gregg Araki is reportedly furious about the decision, as it is specifically targeted at a teen audience.

Michelle is also set to star in the horror film 4 Women, based on a comic book short series by Sam Keith. Keith will write and direct starting in February 2006. The film tells the story of four women who go on a road trip through the desert and get stranded when their car breaks down. Terror ensues after they are picked up by two men in a truck. Should have joined the AA...