Daveigh Chase, ‘The Ring’ and ‘Lilo and Stitch’ Star, Dead at 35 - Rolling Stone

Daveigh Chase, the voice behind Lilo in Disney’s hit animated movie Lilo and Stitch and who starred as Samara Morgan in the horror film The Ring, has died, according to BBC. She was 35. Her manager John Ryan Jr. confirmed her death and said Chase died from sepsis after battling meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital. He said that she had been admitted to a hospital for malnourishment before her death. TMZ was first to report the news. “She was the greatest. She loved cats. She worked with cat rescues with us. She was very to herself, ” said Ryan, who added that Chase would find refuge at her home in Las Vegas for years at a time and turned down big studio films in favor of independent projects. “She was not very Hollywood,” he said. “She’d rather eat at Bob’s Big Boy and go home with the cats. She loved acting but wasn’t into the fame scene.” Born in 1990, Chase’s breakthrough role arrived in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko. She would go on reprise her role in the 2009 sequel to the film, S Darko, which was made without the first film’s writer and director, Richard Kelly. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("tv-movies\/article\/inbody1") .addSize(,,,,,,,,]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });