SHE WAS ONLY 35.” — BUT A FATAL INFECTION SHUT DOWN THE BODY OF THE FORMER CHILD STAR WHO VOICED LILO AND HAUNTED US IN 'THE RING' 😭🚨🎬

Actress Daveigh ChaseDead at 35 …Starred in ‘The Ring,’ Voiced Lilo in ‘Lilo & Stitch’

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The actress’ boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, tells TMZ … Daveigh died Tuesday from meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to have septic issues and led to her body shutting down.

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We’re told Daveigh had been admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this month because of malnutrition.

Daveigh caught her big break in Hollywood early on … voicing Lilo in the hit Disney film “Lilo & Stitch” back in 2002 and the follow-up TV show. She also voiced Chihiro Ogino in the American dub of “Spirited Away.”

Horror movie fans will recognize her from her haunting performance as Samara Morgan … the main antagonist in the hit 2002 film “The Ring” … for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

Beginning in 2006, Daveigh earned a recurring role in the HBO series “Big Love” … which follows a fundamentalist, polygamist Mormon family. She played Rhonda Volmer in 32 episodes of the hit show during its five-season run.

Her other credits include … “Donnie Darko,” “Beethoven’s 5th,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “ER,” “Mercy,” and more.

Daveigh had numerous run-ins with the law over the years, which we’ve covered.

We last caught up with Daveigh in 2012 … when we asked her about her makeup habits — and she told us about her latest project.

Daveigh was 35.

RIP

Source: https://www.tmz.com/2026/06/17/daveigh-chase-dead/