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Lacey Chabert

Lacey Nicole Chabert (/ʃəˈbɛər/ shə-BAIR; born September 30, 1982) is an American actress. One of her first roles as a child actress was the part of Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children from 1992 to 1993. She gained further prominence for her portrayal of Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama Party of Five (1994–2000).

In film, she has appeared in Lost in Space (1998), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), and Daddy Day Care (2003); and had leading roles as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls (2004), Meg Cummings in Dirty Deeds (2005), Dana Mathis in the horror remake Black Christmas (2006), and Penelope in the animated film All I Want for Christmas Is You (2017). Chabert has also appeared in more than 40 Hallmark Channel films.

Chabert's extensive voice acting roles have included Eliza Thornberry in the Nickelodeon animated series The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004) and the feature films The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild; Meg Griffin during the first season of the animated sitcom Family Guy in 1999; Mako in the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011), superhero Zatanna Zatara in DC Comics-related media, and Princess Elise in the English dub of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).

Lacey Nicole Chabert was born on September 30, 1982 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and raised in nearby Purvis. Her father is Cajun from Louisiana. She has a younger brother, Tony, and an older sister, Chrissy. Their oldest sister, Wendy, died of a heart attack in November 2021. Lacey was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" in 1985. She also participated in beauty pageants as a child and was once named Miss Jr. Mississippi.

Some of Chabert's earliest roles were in television commercials for Burger King, Triaminic, Cough Syrup, Zest and Secret Beauties dolls.[citation needed] In 1992–93, Chabert played the role of young Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway. She appeared on The Broadway Kids' first album The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway (1994), where she sang her own solos on such songs as "The Girl I Mean to Be" (from The Secret Garden) and "Castle on a Cloud" (from Les Misérables).[citation needed] In 1994, she landed the role of Claudia Salinger on the Fox network teen/family drama series Party of Five. The show centered on the five Salinger siblings, who are orphaned after their parents are killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. The show received positive reviews and ran for six seasons, from September 12, 1994 to May 3, 2000. She won The Hollywood Reporter's annual YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series in both 1997 and 1998 for Party of Five, and was nominated three other times for her work in 1999 to 2000. The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV, and music performances made exclusively by 6- to 18-year-olds.[citation needed]

Chabert made her big-screen debut starring as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space (1998). She then had a supporting role as Amanda Becker in the parody film Not Another Teen Movie (2001), and provided the voice of Aleu, the title character's daughter, in Balto 2: Wolf Quest (2002). In addition to her animation voice work as Eliza Thornberry from 1998–2004, Chabert was the voice of Meg Griffin, uncredited, on the first season of Family Guy in 1999. Mila Kunis took over the role when Chabert became too busy with schooling and her other work.[citation needed]

Chabert co-starred as Gretchen Wieners, the girl who tries to make her slang term "fetch" catch on, in the hit film Mean Girls (2004). She and her co-stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried went on to win the 2005 MTV Movie Award for "Best On-Screen Team". Chabert also played the title role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a 2004 television biopic produced and directed by Christopher Reeve, based on a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame obstacles to graduate from Harvard University.

Chabert then appeared in Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) on ABC Family; had a role in a 2006 remake of the 1974 horror film Black Christmas, and in an episode of Ghost Whisperer opposite former Party of Five co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt. Her voice work in the second half of the decade included the roles of Princess Elise in the video game Sonic the Hedgehog and Gwen Stacy in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series.[citation needed]

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