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Lacey Chabert
File:Lacey-chabert-picture-1.jpg
Born (1982-09-30) September 30, 1982 (age 42)
Purvis, Mississippi, USA
OccupationActress
Height5 ft 3 in (160 cm)
Parents
  • Tony Chabert (father)
  • Julie Chabert (mother)

Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American film and television actress.

Biography

Early life

Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi to Julie and Tony Chabert, who is a French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana.[1] She has a brother, T.J., and two sisters, Wendy and Crissy, as well as a dog, Abu. Chabert was Miss Jr. Mississippi.

Career

Chabert made her start as Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway. Chabert was a member of the Broadway Kids which included Christy Carlson Romano, Chris Trousdale, and Greg Raposo. She was originally selected to play the role of "Young Lily" in the movie Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), but bailed out for unknown reasons. Chabert became famous worldwide for her role as Claudia Salinger in the TV drama Party of Five, and for her portrayal of Penny Robinson in the 1998 movie based on the 1960s TV show Lost in Space. Since 1998, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys; she also voiced Eliza in two Wild Thornberrys movies, The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild! (2003). In addition, she also provided the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated cartoon Family Guy, for thirteen episodes from 1999-2000 (She, however, was never credited, and so far, Fox has denied that she was ever Meg's first voice). [citation needed] Lacey also had a role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a made-for-TV movie produced by Christopher Reeve, in which she played Brooke Ellison, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard. She also starred in Daddy Day Care (2003), as Gretchen in Mean Girls (2004) and the made for TV movie Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) on ABC Family. She appeared in a 2006 remake of the classic horror movie Black Christmas. She also performed the voice of Princess Elise from the game Sonic the Hedgehog for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Chabert won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team for Mean Girls, shared with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried. She won both the 1997 and 1998 Hollywood Reporter's Annual YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series for Party of Five, and had been nominated three other times for work 1999-2000. The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV and music performances made exclusively by 6 to 18 year olds and are voted on by the Hollywood Reporter readers.

Chabert was featured as cover girl of the January 2007 issue of Maxim.

Personal life

Chabert lives in Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 when she began work on Party of Five. She is a practicing Christian, stating, "Yes, I am a Christian. Jesus is the center of my life and I give God the glory for everything, for all my success".[2]

She has been a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games since she was 9 years old.

Selected filmography

Selected television credits

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Vibe chat". Lacey Chabert.com. 1998. Retrieved 2006-11-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Lost In Space star Lacy Chabert". Lacey Chabert.com. 1998-04-07. Retrieved 2006-11-24. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
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