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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d and her villainous performance in the thriller \u201cThe Ring,\u201d has died. She was 35.<\/p>\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d and her villainous performance in the thriller \u201cThe Ring,\u201d has died. She was 35.<\/p>\n
Chase\u2019s father, John David Schwallier, confirmed to The New York Times she died from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. She had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died, he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
TMZ first reported Wednesday that Chase died Tuesday.<\/p>\n
She voiced the lead role of Lilo in the 2002 animated film, a role she auditioned for at age 8. Years later, a Hawaiian actress was cast as Lilo for the live-action remake.<\/p>\n
For her role as long-haired Samara in the 2002 horror film, Chase won an MTV movie award for best villain.<\/p>\n
Chase also voiced another lead in the 2001 animated film \u201cSpirited Away.\u201d She had roles in the 2001 movie \u201cDonnie Darko\u201d and the 2003 show \u201cOliver Beene,\u201d according to internet movie database IMDb.com.<\/p>\n
She was born in Las Vegas and raised in Albany, Oregon. In her small hometown, she began singing and dancing at age 3, according to IMDb.<\/p>\n
Chase struggled with drugs since she was 13 years old, Schwallier said in an interview with the Times. He said his daughter was estranged from her parents, who are divorced.<\/p>\n
Schwallier said he was in touch with Chase\u2019s boyfriend, and just before she died, arrived at the Los Angeles hospital where she was being treated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney\u2019s \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d and her villainous performance in the thriller \u201cThe Ring,\u201d has died. She was 35. Chase\u2019s father, John David Schwallier, confirmed to The New York Times she died from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. … Continue reading Former child actor Daveigh Chase, \u2018The Ring\u2019 villain and Lilo voice, dies at 35<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1516807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-21 12:08:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516808,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516806\/revisions\/1516808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}