Former baby star Daveigh Chase, who terrified viewers climbing out of a tv display in “The Ring” and voiced the lovable outcast Lilo in “Lilo & Sew,” died of AIDS, the Los Angeles County health worker stated.
The health worker’s report stated Chase, 35, died at a hospital June 16. The report listed AIDS, which is attributable to HIV, because the trigger and power polysubstance use — utilizing a couple of drug or substance on the identical time or inside a brief interval — as a “important situation.”
Chase’s father, John David Schwallier, informed the New York Instances shortly after his daughter’s loss of life that she died of problems from bacterial meningitis and a blood an infection. He informed the outlet that Chase had battled with drug habit and was homeless earlier than her loss of life.
Chase started her Hollywood profession within the late Nineteen Nineties, with minor roles in common TV collection together with “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Charmed” and “ER,” and starred in a number of beloved movies on the flip of the century. She performed Samantha, the youthful sister of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Donnie Darko, within the 2001 cult traditional of the identical identify.
The identical yr Chase voiced Lilo in “Lilo & Sew,” she additionally performed the enduring ghost lady Samara Morgan within the horror flick “The Ring.”
Chase informed The Instances in 2002 that she took her personal voice “and put this freaky twist on it” to play the character. The efficiency earned her the award for finest villain on the 2003 MTV Film Awards.
Workers author Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.
