Daveigh Elizabeth Chase (born Daveigh Elizabeth Schwallier; July 24, 1990) is an American actress, singer, and voice over artist best known for playing Rhonda Volmer in the HBO series Big Love, Samara Morgan in The Ring and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.

Mother is Cathy Chase, father is John Schwallier (divorced)
At the age of 12, she beat out Mike Myers, Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe and Daniel Day-Lewis to take home the award for Best Villain for her performance as “Samara” in The Ring (2002/I) at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
At the 2003 Academy Awards, both of the animated feature films that Daveigh was given the opportunity to voice the lead heroines, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Hayao Miyazaki’s Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (aka Spirited Away), were nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar!! “Spirited Away” won.
Is friends with actress Dakota Fanning
Has lost out on two roles to Kristen Stewart : Sarah in Panic Room (2002) and Tracy in Into the Wild (2007).
Has a baby brother called Cade, born on October 13th 2006.