Lacey Chabert

Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress and voice actress, 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 provided the voice of Eliza Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys TV show and two feature films, and Meg Griffin during the first production season of the animated sitcom Family Guy

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. 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. She was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" of 1985.

Career

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) andRugrats 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. 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 Party of Five costar Jennifer Love Hewitt. She performed the voice of Princess Elise from the game Sonic the Hedgehog for the PS3 and Xbox 360. She also voiced Gwen Stacy 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, andAmanda 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. 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 pilot episode of the Fox comedy 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.

Filmography

Films

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
	Journey Beneath the Sea	Merla
	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
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
	Daddy Day Care	Jenny
2004	Mean Girls	Gretchen Wieners
	Shadow of Fear	Allison Henderson
	The Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison	Main role
2005	The Pleasure Drivers	Faruza
	Nice Guys	Cindy	aka High Hopes
	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	Pre-production
	Slightly Single in L.A.	Dale Squire
	Elevator Girl	Liberty (Libby) Taylor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Star Search with Ed McMahon	Jr Vocal Finalist
1993	All My Children	Bianca Montgomery #3
	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

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