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Lacey Chabert
Born	Lacey Nicole Chabert September 30, 1982 (1982-09-30) (age 26) Purvis, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Years active	1992–present

Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress and vocal performer, 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 in the animated sitcom Family Guy.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal beliefs and activities 2 Filmography 2.1 Television 2.2 Other Media 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Personal life

Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, the daughter of Julie, a homemaker, and Tony Chabert, a French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana who worked as a maintenance operations representative for an oil company.¹² She has a younger brother, T.J., and two older sisters, Wendy and Crissy, one of whom owns her own 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 1985.³

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 worldwide 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.⁴ She gained fame for her portrayal of Penny Robinson in the 1998 film Lost in Space, 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.⁵ 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. ⁶ 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, debuting in 2008.

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 1999-2000.⁷ 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.⁴

Personal beliefs and activities

Chabert has identified herself as Christian.⁸ She recently stated that her faith in God and spending time with her family are important to her. ⁹

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1993	Gypsy	Baby June
1997	When Secrets Kill	Jennie Newhall
	Anastasia	Young Anastasia (Singing Voice)
1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Young Vitani
	Lost in Space	Penny Robinson
1999	An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	Tanya Mousekewitz (voice)
	We Wish You a Merry Christmas	Cindy (voice)
2000	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	Tanya Mousekewitz (voice)
2001	Not Another Teen Movie	Amanda Becker
	Tart	Eloise Logan
2002	Hometown Legend	Rachel Sawyer
	Balto II: Wolf Quest	Aleu
	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Eliza Thornberry
2003	Rugrats Go Wild!	Eliza Thornberry
	Daddy Day Care	Jenny
2004	The Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison
	Mean Girls	Gretchen Weiners
2005	Dirty Deeds	Meg
	Fatwa	Noa Goldman
	The Pleasure Drivers	Faruza
2006	Be My Baby	Tiffany
	Black Christmas	Dana Mathis
2007	What If God Were the Sun?	Jamie
2008	Sherman's Way	Marcy
2009	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Jeanna (voice)
	In My Sleep	Becky
	The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Bride

Television

Year	Title	Role
1991	Star Search with Ed McMahon	Jr Vocal Finalist
1993	All My Children	Bianca Montgomery #3; 2 episodes
1994	Party of Five	Claudia Salinger (1994-2000)
1996	Hey Arnold!	Ruth P. McDougal (1996-1997) (2 episodes) (TV Series)
1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Eliza Thornberry (1998-2004) (voice) (TV Series)
1999	Family Guy	Meg Griffin (Season 1 Production) (Voice) (Uncredited)
	Rayman: The Animated Series	Betina (voice) (episode 3)
2003	The Drew Carey Show	Grace (Single Episode)
2004	The Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison (TV Movie)
2005	American Dragon: Jake Long	Jasmine (voice) (Episode 2)
2006	Bratz	Kaycee (2006-Present) (Voice)
	Hello Sister, Goodbye Life	Olivia Martin (TV Movie)
	Chaotic	Krystella (voice) (2006-Present, recurring role)
2007	Ghost Whisperer	Donna Ellis (Episode; Love Still Won't Die)
	What If God Were the Sun?	Jamie Spagnoletti (TV Movie)
	The Hot Years	Stevie (TV Series)
2008	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Gwen Stacy (TV Series) (Voice)

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