Chase’s father, John David Schwallier, informed the New York Occasions on the time of her demise that she had been homeless and residing in Los Angeles along with her boyfriend earlier than her passing.
The previous baby star started appearing at 4 years outdated, reserving her first Hollywood job when she was seven, however she retired from appearing full time in 2015, her supervisor mentioned.
Her first TV position in Hollywood at age seven was a small half within the fashionable Melissa Joan Hart-led sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Chase’s Hollywood breakthrough got here in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko and later performed the titular character’s sister within the 2009 movie S Darko.
In 2002, Chase starred as Samara Morgan, the long-haired ghost that crawls out of the telly within the horror movie The Ring, an American remake of the Japanese traditional a couple of videotape that makes folks die after they watch it.
She earned a 2003 MTV Film Award for finest villain for her flip because the spooky demon-like character that crawls on its fingers and ft earlier than killing victims.
Additionally in 2002, she voiced the Elvis-adoring Hawaiian lady Lilo within the animated hit Lilo & Sew.
The half earned her an Annie Award for finest voice appearing in an animated characteristic manufacturing and he or she continued to voice the character in spin-offs.
