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Daveigh Chase Profile |
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Birth Date: July 24, 1990
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Birth Place: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Birth Name: Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Daveigh Chase is an American actress, singer, and voice over
artist.
Chase was born Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier in Las
Vegas, Nevada, but her name was later changed to Daveigh
Elizabeth Chase after her parents, Cathy Chase and John
Schwallier, divorced. Chase lives with her mother Cathy
Chase and was raised in Albany, Oregon, before moving to Los
Angeles, California to pursue her career (although she does
still spend much of her time in Albany). She now has a
younger brother, Cade. She wanted to perform from a very
early age and began singing and dancing in her hometown and
other local areas at community events and shows. One of the
factors which inspired her was watching videos of Barney &
Friends when she was 4 years old. "I wanted to be like them,
the kids on the video," she later said. Her mother then
entered her in a Little Miss America Pageant where Chase won
the national vocal competition. Following her success, Chase
was then signed by an agent who specialised in commercials
and at the age of 7, she appeared in a Campbells Soup
advertisement. In 1998, she landed a starring role as a
child member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in a musical theatre production called Utah!.
Chase's big break came later in 2002 when she won the lead
role as the voice of a Hawaiian girl, Lilo Pelekai, in the
Disney animated feature, Lilo & Stitch. The film concerns
how Lilo befriends a strange and destructive blue alien whom
she calls "Stitch" and how she tries to teach him how to
behave using Elvis Presley music as exemplars. The message
conveyed throughout the film is essentially that families
must remain united, that there is an innate goodness in all
children, that people should take pride in their own
culture, and the importance of good behaviour. For her
performance, Chase would go on to win an Annie Award for it
in 2003 and star in the follow up TV series, Lilo & Stitch:
The Series.
In 2001, Chase won the role as the voice of the lead
character, Chihiro Ogino, a 10 year old Japanese girl, in
the American dub of the animated Japanese feature, Spirited
Away. The film won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature. Her other animated film work from that year, Lilo &
Stitch, had also been nominated for the same Academy Award
that year.
In 2002, Chase starred in the role of Samara Morgan in the
feature film, The Ring. Chase was awarded the 2003 Best
Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance,
beating out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and
Daniel Day-Lewis. In the sequel to The Ring, The Ring Two
(2005), Chase was credited for her role as Samara Morgan
because of the use of archive footage from the first Ring,
but Kelly Stables performed all of the new footage.
Chase's main other major film and TV credits between 2000
and 2005 were the cult film Donnie Darko (2001) as Donnie's
younger sister, Samantha, and Oliver Beene (2003–2004), as
Oliver's quirky girlfriend Joyce. Other credits include, The
Rats (2002), Carolina (2003), R.L. Stine's Haunted
Lighthouse (2003) in which she played a flying ghost called
Annabel, and Beethoven's 5th (2003). She also made guest
appearances in Touched By An Angel, Charmed, ER, Family Law,
and The Practice.
In 2006, Chase was given the role of Rhonda Volmer in the
HBO drama series Big Love which centres on a polygamist,
Bill Henrickson, played by Bill Paxton. The show focuses
upon Henrickson's relationship with his three wives. Chase's
character is the child bride of a prophet, Roman Grant,
played by Harry Dean Stanton.
Leroy & Stitch, a follow up to Lilo & Stitch, was released
in 2006. Chase then appeared in the second season of Big
Love, which aired in 2007. She also did some voice work on
an animation series called Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures
the same year. She is set to reprise her role as Donnie
Darko's younger sister, Samantha, in the film S. Darko. |
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Other
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Mother is Cathy Chase, father is John Schwallier (divorced)
At the age of 12, she beat out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell,
Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis to take home the award for
Best Villain for her performance as Samara in The Ring at
the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
At the 2003 Academy Awards, both of the animated feature
films that Daveigh was given the opportunity to voice the
lead heroines, Disney's "Lilo and Stitch" and Hayao
Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", were nominated for the Best
Animated Feature Film Oscar!! "Spirited Away" won.
Is friends with actress Dakota Fanning
Auditioned for the role of Sarah in Panic Room (2002).
Auditioned for the role of Tracy in Into the Wild (2007).
Has a baby brother called Cade, born on October 13th 2006. |
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since October 29, 2008