Daveigh Chase Biography

Birth Name : Daveigh Elizabeth Chase-Schwallier 

Date of Birth : 24 July 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 

Height : 5' 7½" (1.71 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Daveigh Chase was born on July 24, 1990 in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada to her mother Cathy Chase and her father John Schwallier. Her mother and her father are already divorced. She is an only child and she lives with her mother Cathy Chase. Daveigh's best friend is Dakota Fanning, another child star that is making it big today. Daveigh is an actress, singer, and voice over talent artist. She has been performing ever since she was a kid. This is how child stars are born. She began dancing and singing at a very early age. Her inspirations while she was growing up were Barney and Friends. While she was watching the Barney and Friends television shows, she always wanted to be one of the kids in the shows. When she was four years old, she told her mom that she wanted to be one of the kids on Barney. When her mother heard this, she entered her into a Little Miss America Pageant. She won the national vocal competition. She caught the attention of agents and by the age of 7, she was already cast in the commercial of Campbell's soup. Not even in her teens, by the age of 12, she already beat Mike Myers, Collin Farrel, Willem Dafoe, and Daniel Day Lewis at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.

In 2000, Daveigh won three guest roles on the popular TV series Charmed, The Practice and ER, as well as roles in the TV films From Where I Sit and Edgar MaCobb Presents. Her first big role in a feature film came in Donnie Darko (2001), playing Samantha Darko. Her singing talent was put to use in Steven Spielberg’s A.I.:Artificial Intelligence (2001).

In 2002, the two films she had done voice work on had their North American releases. Lilo & Stitch (2002) opened and was an immediate success at the box office. As well, Chase had recorded the voice of the lead character, Chihiro in Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2002). Later that year, she landed a role as a series regular on the new FOX TV series, Oliver Beene, playing Oliver’s friend, Jennifer. She also played a major role in the thriller, The Ring (2002), playing Samara Morgan, the girl who holds the key to the mystery.

For 2003, she has already finished work on several films, including Carolina (2003), starring Shirley MacLaine and Julia Stiles.