Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American film and television actress.
Biography
Early life
Chabert was born in
Purvis, Mississippi to Tony Chabert (a French-speaking
Cajun from
Louisiana)
* and Julie; she has a brother, T.J., and two sisters, Wendy and Crissy, as well as a dog, Abu. She is a practicing
Christian.
Career
Chabert made her start as Cosette in
Les Misérables on Broadway. Chabert was a member of the Broadway Kids which included
Christy Carlson-Romano ,
Chris Troudale , and Greg Raposo. She became famous worldwide for her role as
Claudia Salinger in the TV drama
Party of Five. Since 1998, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the
animated series The Wild Thornberrys; she also voiced Eliza in two Wild Thornberrys movies,
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and
Rugrats Go Wild! (2003). In addition, she also voiced the character
Megan Griffin in the animated cartoon
Family Guy for the first fifteen episodes. Lacey also had a role in
The Brooke Ellison Story, a made-for-TV movie produced by
Christopher Reeve, in which she played Brooke Ellison, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard. She also starred in
Daddy Day Care (2003) as Jenny, in
Mean Girls (
2004) and the made for
TV movie
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) on
ABC Family.
Personal life
Chabert lives in
Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 when she began work on
Party of Five.
Awards & nominations
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's 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 6 to 18 year olds and are voted on by the Hollywood Reporter readers.
She has been nominated six times for a Young Artist Award from 1993-1999.
Selected filmography
Selected television credits
External links
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