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Lacey Chabert
Lacey Chabert, 2007
Born	Lacey Nicole Chabert September 30, 1982 (1982-09-30) (age 27) Purvis, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress and voice actress, best known for her roles as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie Mean Girls. She has also become famous for providing the voice of Eliza Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys TV show and two feature films, as well as Meg Griffin during the first production season of the animated sitcom Family Guy.¹

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Television 4.1 Other media 5 References 6 External links

Personal life

Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, the daughter of Julie and Tony Chabert, a French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana who worked as a maintenance operations representative for an oil company.²³ She has a younger brother, T.J., and two older sisters, Wendy and Crissy, one of whom owns a restaurant in Purvis. Chabert lives in Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 when she began work on Party of Five. Lacey was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" of 1985.⁴

Career

Chabert made her start as young Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway. Chabert was a member of the Broadway Kids which included Christy Carlson Romano, Chris Trousdale, Eden Riegel, and Greg Raposo. She was originally selected to play the role of "Young Lily" in the movie Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), but withdrew for unknown reasons. Chabert then landed the role of Bianca Montgomery on the ABC soap opera All My Children in 1993. Chabert became famous for her role as Claudia Salinger in the TV drama Party of Five, "I had to go through everything on that show — my first kiss, my first bra. I was 11 when it started," she said.⁵ She gained fame for her portrayal of Penny Robinson in the 1998 Lost in Space film, based on the 1960s television show. Chabert played in Hometown Legend as Rachel Sawyer.

Since 1998, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, and has voiced Eliza in two movies, The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild (2003). She provided the voice of Meg Griffin for the first production season of the animated sitcom Family Guy (1999), after which Mila Kunis took over the role.⁶ Chabert played the title role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a made-for-TV movie produced by Christopher Reeve, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard. She starred 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 Black Christmas. She appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer opposite former Po5 costar Jennifer Love Hewitt, portraying a woman who looked like Melinda as a nod to fans who occasionally confuse the two stars. ⁷ She performed the voice of Princess Elise from the game Sonic the Hedgehog for the PS3 and Xbox 360. She provides Gwen Stacy's voice in the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man.

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 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 1999-2000.⁸ The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV and music performances made exclusively by six to eighteen-year-olds.

In 2007, Chabert starred in the FOX comedy pilot The Hot Years, which revolved around the lives of four female friends who live together. The pilot was not ordered to series by FOX. Chabert was featured as cover girl of the January 2007 issue of Maxim.⁵

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1991	A Little Piece of Heaven	Princess, or 'Hazal'
1997	Redux Riding Hood	Little Red	Voice role
	Babes in Toyland	Jill	Voice role
	Journey Beneath the Sea	Merla	Voice role
	Anastasia	Young Anastasia	Singing Voice Only (Animation)
1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Young Vitani	Voice role
	Lost in Space	Penny Robinson
1999	We Wish You a Merry Christmas	Cindy	Voice role
2000	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	Tanya Mousekewitz	Voice role
2001	Not Another Teen Movie	Amanda Becker
	Tart	Eloise Logan
2002	Hometown Legend	Rachel Sawyer
	Balto II: Wolf Quest	Aleu	Voice role
	The Scoundrel's Wife	Florida Picou
	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
2003	Rugrats Go Wild	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
	Daddy Day Care	Jenny
2004	Mean Girls	Gretchen Weiners
	Shadow of Fear	Allison Henderson
2005	The Pleasure Drivers	Faruza
	Nice Guys	Cindy
	Dirty Deeds	Meg
2006	Be My Baby	Tiffany
	Fatwa	Noa Goldman
	Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman	Crista North	Voice role
	Black Christmas	Dana Mathis
	Hello Sister, Goodbye Life	Olivia Martin
2007	A New Wave	Julie
	Being Michael Madsen	Vanessa Rapaport
2008	Thirst	Noelle
	Sherman's Way	Marcy
	Reach for Me	Sarah
2009	The Lost	Jane
	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Sandra
	In My Sleep	Becky
2010	Flights of Fancy	Sandy (rumored) Pre-Production
	Slightly Single in L.A.	Dale Squire	took rumor willis' place
	Elevator Girl	Liberty Taylor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Star Search with Ed McMahon	Jr Vocal Finalist
1993	All My Children	Bianca Montgomery #3	2 episodes
	Gypsy	Baby June	Television movie
1994-2000	Party of Five	Claudia Salinger
1996-1997	Hey Arnold!	Ruth P. McDougal	2 episodes
1997	When Secrets Kill	Jennie Newhall	Television movie
1998-2004	The Wild Thornberrys	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
1999	Family Guy	Meg Griffin	Voice role, (Season 1 Production) (Uncredited)
	Rayman: The Animated Series	Betina	Voice role, 1 episode
2002	Punk'd	Herself
2003	The Drew Carey Show	Grace	1 episode
2004	The Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison	Television movie
2005	American Dragon: Jake Long	Jasmine	Voice role, 1 episode
2005-2006	Bratz	Kaycee	Voice role
2006	Hello Sister, Goodbye Life	Olivia Martin	Television movie
2007	Ghost Whisperer	Donna Ellis	1 episode, Love Still Won't Die
	What If God Were the Sun?	Jamie Spagnoletti	Television movie
2008	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Gwen Stacy	Voice role (Seasons 1 and 2)

Other media

• Les Misérables .... young Cosette (1992–1994)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) video game (voice) .... Princess Elise

References

External links

• Lacey Chabert at the Internet Movie Database
• Lacey Chabert at TV.com