The Ring and Lilo & Stitch actress Daveigh Chase dies aged 35

The Ring and Lilo & Stitch actress Daveigh Chase dies aged 3510 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleNardine SaadLos AngelesGetty ImagesDaveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a telly in The Ring and who voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, has died aged 35.Chase, who also starred in the cable drama Big Love, died from sepsis following a bout with meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital, her longtime manager John Ryan Jr confirmed to BBC News on Wednesday.Ryan said that Chase had been admitted to hospital for malnourishment before her death. The former child star began acting at 4 years old, booking her first Hollywood job when she was 7, but she retired from acting full time in 2015, he said.Getty ImagesThe Ring actors Brian Cox, Daveigh Chase, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman and Naomi Watts at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles in 2002. "She was the greatest. She loved cats. She worked with cat rescues with us. She was very to herself, " said Ryan, her friend and manager of 15 years, noting that Chase would often retreat to her home in Las Vegas for years at a time and turn down big studio films to do independent projects. "She was not very Hollywood," he said. "She'd rather eat at Bob's Big Boy and go home with the cats. She loved acting but wasn't into the fame scene." Chase, who kept homes in Nevada and downtown Los Angeles, started acting in Las Vegas around age 4 doing voiceover work and theatre.She landed her first TV role in Hollywood at age 7, booking a small part in the popular Melissa Joan Hart-led American sitcom Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Getty ImagesDaveigh Chase, voice of Lilo, and Ving Rhames, voice of Cobra Bubbles, at the premiere and after-party for Lilo & Stitch at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles in 2002.Her Hollywood breakthrough came in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko and later played the titular character's sist...