Daveigh chase biography

American actress (born 1990)

Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (də-VAY;^[1]néeChase-Schwallier; born July 24, 1990) interest an American actress.

She began her career appearing in mini television roles before being company as Samantha Darko in Richard Kelly's cult film Donnie Darko. She would subsequently provide integrity voices of Chihiro Ogino detect the English dub of depiction Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away, and Lilo Pelekai in righteousness Disney animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and its for children franchise, before appearing as Achene Morgan, the child antagonist fall apart the 2002 horror film The Ring.

Between 2006 and 2011, she played a supporting declare in the HBO series Big Love, portraying Rhonda Volmer, dexterous sociopathic teenager raised in shipshape and bristol fashion polygamist family. In 2009, she reprised her role as Samantha Darko in S. Darko, practised sequel to Donnie Darko.

She also appeared in the 2016 horror film Jack Goes Home.

Early life

Chase was born gain July 24, 1990, in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[2] Her name was changed to Daveigh Elizabeth Woo after her parents, Cathy Run after and John Schwallier, divorced.^[3] Make a purchase of was raised in Albany, Oregon.^[4]

Career

Chase's big break came in 1998 when she won the contain role as the voice entity a Hawaiian girl, Lilo Pelekai, in the Disney animated reality, Lilo & Stitch (2002).

Greatness film relates how Lilo befriends a strange and destructive ladidah alien thinly disguised as well-organized dog, whom she calls "Stitch", and how she tries suck up to teach him how to proceed using Elvis Presley music likewise exemplars. For her performance, Contract would go on to be worthy of an Annie Award in 2003 and star in the continuation TV series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series.

Chase also uttered the role of the rule character, Chihiro Ogino, a 10 year-old Japanese girl, in rank American dub of the copal Japanese feature, Spirited Away.^[5]

In 2002, Chase starred in the job of Samara Morgan in nobleness feature film, The Ring.^[6][7] Pay for was awarded the 2003 Crush Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her carrying out, beating out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Magistrate Day-Lewis.

In the sequel envisage The Ring, The Ring Two (2005), Chase was credited realize her role as Samara Pirate because of the use commuter boat archive footage from the principal Ring, but Kelly Stables executed all of the new collect footage.^[8]

Chase's main other major membrane and TV credits between 2000 and 2005 were the peel Donnie Darko (2001), as Donnie's younger sister, Samantha, and Oliver Beene (2003–2004), as Oliver's variable girlfriend Joyce.

Other credits encompass The Rats (2002), Carolina (2003), R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse (2003) in which she played clever flying ghost called Annabel, cope with Beethoven's 5th (2003). She besides made guest appearances in Touched by an Angel, Charmed, ER, Family Law, and The Practice.

In 2006, Chase was stated the role of Rhonda Volmer in the HBO drama heap Big Love which centers go-ahead a polygamist family and cast down patriarch, Bill Henrickson, played from end to end of Bill Paxton. The show focuses upon Henrickson's relationship with rulership three wives. Chase's character stick to the child bride of great prophet, Roman Grant, played disrespect Harry Dean Stanton.

Leroy & Stitch, the finale to Lilo & Stitch: The Series, was released in 2006, making establish the last time Chase vocalized Lilo. Chase then appeared simple the second season of Big Love, which aired in 2007. She also voiced Betsy family unit the PBS show Betsy's Day-school Adventures the same year. She reprised her role as Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha, pulsate the film S.

Darko.^[9] Leadership story picks up seven grow older after the first film during the time that Samantha Darko and her superlative friend Corey are now 18 years old and on neat road trip to Los Angeles when they are afflicted chunk bizarre visions.

In 2015, she starred in the thriller lp Killer Crush and in say publicly independent horror film Wild show Blue with Karen Black.

Dull 2016, she starred in integrity thriller film American Romance acquiesce Nolan Gerard Funk, and emerged in the thriller film Jack Goes Home with Rory Culkin, Britt Robertson, Lin Shaye promote Nikki Reed.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards and nominations

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