Daveigh Chase Height, Age, Death, Boyfriend, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts Daveigh Chase

• Her parents divorced when she was young.

• After that, Daveigh Chase was brought up by her mother, Cathy, in Albany, Oregon, a small city in the Willamette Valley.

• As a child, she loved performing arts.

• When Daveigh Chase was three years old, she started learning singing and dancing. She used to perform at local talent shows, community events, and contests.

  

  Daveigh Chase in 1993

• She used to sing country music.

• Daveigh Chase once participated in a national singing contest and won when she was a child.

• She chose acting as a career after a car accident.

• When she was eight years old, during a family road trip from Albany to Los Angeles, they met with an accident.

• After the accident, the doctor advised her mother not to drive the car for six months. So, the family stayed in Los Angeles for some time.

• During their stay at Los Angeles, her mother encouraged her to try acting because Daveigh had always loved watching children’s shows like Barney & Friends.
  

  A childhood picture of Daveigh Chase

• Daveigh Chase wished to appear on the screen.

• She then started looking for acting jobs.

• After that, she then left her regular school and was homeschooled by her mother and balanced her schoolwork and her new acting schedule.

• Her mother and some local people helped her go to casting calls, and she then got a talent agent.

• Daveigh Chase then legally changed her last name to her mother’s maiden name for her acting career.

• When she was seven years old, she was featured in her first commercial for Campbell’s Soup.

• In 1998, she shared the role of Norma Sanderson in the musical “Utah!” at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre.
  

  A childhood picture of Daveigh Chase in a still from a television series

• That same year, she made her television debut with the television series “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.”

• In 2000, Daveigh Chase appeared in many television shows, including “Charmed,” “ER,” and “The Practice.”

• In 1999, she appeared in the film “Her Married Lover.”

• In 2001, she played the role of Samantha Darko, a young sister, in the film “Donnie Darko” alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.

• That same year, Daveigh Chase was featured in the music video of the song “What About Us?” by Ministry.

• She later reprised this role as the main character in the sequel “S. Darko.”

• She received recognition after he lent her voice for Disney.

• In 2002, she lent her voice to the character Lilo Pelekai in the film “Lilo & Stitch,” which aired on Disney.
  

  Daveigh Chase posing with Lilo in the 2002 Disney classic Lilo & Stitch

• Daveigh Chase then voiced the character Lilo in its next television series and a direct-to-video sequel.

• After that, her friend Dakota Fanning replaced her in the film “Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.”

• Daveigh Chase then lent her voice to the main character Chihiro in the English version of the noted Japanese film “Spirited Away.”

• She then appeared in the horror film “The Ring,” which was released in 2002.
  

  Daveigh Chase in a still from the film The Ring

• In the film, Daveigh Chase played the role of Samara Morgan, the scary little girl who comes out of the TV. Daveigh wore heavy makeup and did scary stunts. Her character became famous in early 2000s.

• In 2002, during a media talk, she said that she enjoyed playing an evil character in the film. She said,
  

  It is not your typical character. Usually they are looking for a happy-go-lucky kid, but Samara was a pretty interesting character to play. I just kind of took my own voice and put this freaky twist on it.”

  

  The Ring actors Brian Cox, Daveigh Chase, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman and Naomi Watts at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles in 2002

• This role made her very popular with teen fans. She then won the 2003 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for her role in The Ring.

• From 2003 to 2004, Daveigh Chase appeared as Joyce in the television show Oliver Beene.

• That same year, she was cast in the shows Beethoven’s 5th and Carolina, where she played the younger version of Julia Stiles’ character.

• At the 2003 Academy Awards, both “Lilo & Stitch” and “Spirited Away” films were nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, and Daveigh was the voice of the lead girls in both.

• In 2006, Daveigh Chase started acting in the television series “Big Love,” which aired on the HBO. She played Rhonda Volmer, a teenage bride of a Mormon leader named Harry Dean Stanton. She appeared in this show from 2006 to 2011.
  

  Daveigh Chase in a still from the HBO TV series Big Love

• In 2006, she lent her voice the character Lilo in the television show Leroy & Stitch.

• In 2008, Daveigh Chase voiced Betsy in the television show Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures, which aired on PBS Kids.

• The following year, she appeared as Samantha in the Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko.

• She then appeared in many television shows and films, such as Yellow (2012), Killer Crush (2015), American Romance (2016), and Jack Goes Home (2016).
  

  Daveigh Chase in a still from the film Jack Goes Home (2016)

• In 2016, Daveigh Chase lent her voice to the character Kiwako Seto in the video game Let It Die.

• Apart from being an actor, she was also a singer.

• In February 2017, she was investigated by police after she dropped an unconscious man at a hospital. The man later died from a suspected drug overdose.

• In November 2017, Daveigh Chase was arrested in Los Angeles for driving a stolen car.

• In August 2018, she was arrested for keeping drugs. She then spent two days in jail and received bail after paying $1,000 bond.

• By November 2018, she was arrested for keeping drugs without a prescription. She was also having drug paraphernalia.

• Daveigh Chase appeared in her last film in 2016. After that, she stopped acting and disappeared from public life and social media.

• Reportedly, he lived a very hard life for the next ten years.

• She had serious drug addiction and became homeless. She lived on the streets in Skid Row and downtown in Los Angeles.

• In June 2026, Daveigh Chase was hospitalized at Los Angeles General Medical Center. She was severely malnourished and had lost a lot of weight.

• While in the hospital, she suffered from meningitis and serious infections in her blood. The doctors claimed that she was very close to dying.

• During this period, her boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, started a GoFundMe page so that he could recover medical costs. Hernandez claimed on social media that Daveigh had been bullied, separated from her family, and homeless.
  

  Daveigh Chase was reportedly living in a trailer with her boyfriend until she was hospitalized in June 2026

• Daveigh Chase died a few hours after the GoFundMe page started on 16 June 2026.

• She died from septic shock and her organs stopped working because of her infections.

• Hernandez talked about her death on 17 June 2026 to a media outlet. He said that her blood infections caused septic shock that made her body shut down.

• After her death, there occurred a dispute about her funeral and the GoFundMe between her family and boyfriend, Hernandez, who claimed that he was collecting the money was for her cremation.

• After that, John Ryan, her former manager, and John Schwallier, her father, stated in the media that the online fundraiser was fake and requested people not to donate.

• John Ryan said that her family was conducting her funeral. He also confirmed that she had saved millions of dollars in a SAG-AFTRA trust fund, and they could pay for everything.

• In her free time, she liked bodyboarding, riding horses, dancing, reading books, and writing song lyrics.

• Daveigh Chase was an animal lover and has many pet dogs and cats. She often shared pictures of her pets on social media.
  

  Daveigh Chase with her pet cat

• She enjoyed smoking cigarettes occasionally.
  

  Daveigh Chase while smoking a cigarette