Daveigh Chase

Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (/dəˈveɪ/ də-VAY;[1] née Chase-Schwallier; born July 24, 1990) is an American actress. She began her career appearing in minor television roles before being cast as Samantha Darko in Richard Kelly's cult film Donnie Darko. She would subsequently provide the voices of Chihiro Ogino in the English dub of the Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away, and Lilo Pelekai in the Disney animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and its subsequent franchise, before appearing as Samara Morgan, the child antagonist in the 2002 horror film The Ring.
Between 2006 and 2011, she played a supporting part in the HBO series Big Love, portraying Rhonda Volmer, a sociopathic teenager raised in a polygamist family. In 2009, she reprised her role as Samantha Darko in S. Darko, a sequel to Donnie Darko. She also appeared in the 2016 horror film Jack Goes Home.
== Early life[edit] ==
Chase was born on July 24, 1990, in Las Vegas, Nevada.[2] Her name was changed to Daveigh Elizabeth Chase after her parents, Cathy Chase and John Schwallier, divorced.[3] Chase was raised in Albany, Oregon.[4]
== Career[edit] ==
Chase's big break came in 1998 when she won the lead role as the voice of a Hawaiian girl, Lilo Pelekai, in the Disney animated feature, Lilo & Stitch (2002). The film relates how Lilo befriends a strange and destructive blue alien thinly disguised as a dog, whom she calls "Stitch", and how she tries to teach him how to behave using Elvis Presley music as exemplars. For her performance, Chase would go on to win an Annie Award in 2003 and star in the follow-up TV series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Chase also voiced the role of the lead character, Chihiro Ogino, a 10 year-old Japanese girl, in the American dub of the anime Japanese feature, Spirited Away.[5]
In 2002, Chase starred in the role of Samara Morgan in the feature film, The Ring.[6][7] 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 archive footage.[8]
Chase's main other major film and TV credits between 2000 and 2005 were the 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 centers on a polygamist family and its patriarch, 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, the finale to Lilo & Stitch: The Series, was released in 2006, making it the last time Chase voiced Lilo. Chase then appeared in the second season of Big Love, which aired in 2007. She also voiced Betsy in the PBS show Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures the same year. She reprised her role as Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha, in the film S. Darko.[9] The story picks up seven years after the first film when Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 years old and on a road trip to Los Angeles when they are afflicted by bizarre visions.
In 2015, she starred in the thriller film Killer Crush and in the independent horror film Wild in Blue with Karen Black. In 2016, she starred in the thriller film American Romance with Nolan Gerard Funk, and appeared in the thriller film Jack Goes Home with Rory Culkin, Britt Robertson, Lin Shaye and Nikki Reed.
== Filmography[edit] ==
=== Film[edit] ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1999	Her Married Lover 	Granddaughter 	
2000	Robbers 	Dentist's Daughter 	
2001	Donnie Darko 	Samantha Darko 	
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Child Singer 	Deleted scenes
2001	Spirited Away 	Chihiro (voice) 	(English dub)
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	Lilo Pelekai (voice) 	
2002	The Ring 	Samara Morgan 	
2003	Haunted Lighthouse 	Annabel 	Short film
2003	Carolina 	Young Georgia Mirabeau	
2003	Silence 	Rachel Pressman 	
2003	Stitch! The Movie 	Lilo Pelekai (voice) 	Direct-to-video
2003	Beethoven's 5th 	Sara Newton 	Direct-to-video
2005	Rings 	Samara Morgan 	Archive footage
2005	The Ring Two 	Samara Morgan 	Archive footage
2006	Leroy & Stitch 	Lilo Pelekai (voice) 	
2009	S. Darko 	Samantha Darko 	Direct-to-video
2010	In Between Days 	Kent 	Short film
2012	Yellow 	Young Mary Holmes 	
2012	Little Red Wagon 	Kelley Bonner 	
2013	Madame Le Chat 	Klutzy 	Short film
2014	JacobJoseffAimee 	Aimee 	
2015	Wild In Blue 	Rachel 	
2016	Jack Goes Home 	Shanda 	
2016	American Romance 	Krissy Madison 	
2017	Rings 	Samara Morgan 	Archive footage
=== Television[edit] ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1998 	Sabrina the Teenage Witch 	Little Girl 	Episode: "Christmas Amnesia"
1999 	Michael Landon, The Father I Knew	Shawna Landon (age 8) 	Television film
2000 	Charmed 	Christina Larson (young) 	Episode: "Pardon My Past"
2000 	The Practice 	Jennifer Wakefield 	Episode: "Appeal and Denial"
2000 	ER 	Taylor Walker 	Episode: "The Greatest of Gifts"
2000 	From Where I Sit 	Anna 	Television film
2000 	Edgar MaCobb Presents 	Sally 	Television film
2001 	Yes, Dear 	Brooke 	Episode: "The Big Snip"
2001 	The Lot 	Peggy Franklin 	Episode: "Kids"
2001 	That's Life 	Mary-Ellen 	Episode: "Boo!"
2001 	Touched by an Angel 	Heather Albright 	Episode: "Heaven's Portal"
2001 	Inside Schwartz 	Randi Johnson 	Episode: "Comic Relief Pitcher"
2001 	Say Uncle 	Lucy Janik 	Television film
2002 	Family Law 	Jamie Garibaldi 	Episode: "Blood and Water"
2002 	The Rats 	Amy Costello 	Television film
2003 	Fillmore! 	Joyce Summitt, Tracy Mabini (voices)	Episodes: "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields", "Links in a Chain of Honor"
2003 	Oliver Beene 	Joyce 	Main role, 23 episodes
2003–2006	Lilo & Stitch: The Series 	Lilo Pelekai (voice) 	Lead role; 65 episodes
2004 	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 	Tessa Press 	Episode: "Turn of the Screws"
2004 	Cold Case 	Ariel Shuman 	Episode: "The Sleepover"
2006–2011	Big Love 	Rhonda Volmer 	Main role, 32 episodes
2007 	Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures 	Betsy (voice) 	Lead role; 58 episodes
2008 	Without a Trace 	Diana Reed 	Episode: "A Bend in the Road"
2009 	Mercy 	Ashley Jeffries 	Episode: "I'm Not That Kind of Girl"
2015 	Killer Crush 	Paige York 	Television film
=== Video games[edit] ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2002	Disney's Lilo & Stitch 	Lilo Pelekai	
2002	Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise	Lilo Pelekai	
2002	Lilo & Stitch: Hawaiian Adventure 	Lilo Pelekai	
2016	Let It Die 	Kiwako Seto 	[10]
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