LOS ANGELES, June 18 \u2014 Actress Daveigh Chase, who was the titular voice of Lilo in the Disney animated feature film \u201cLilo & Stitch,\u201d died Today in Los Angeles, according to US media. She was 35.<\/p>\n
Her father John David Schwallier told the New York Times that Chase died in a hospital from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection.<\/p>\n
Schwallier told the Times his estranged daughter began struggling with drugs at age 13, and had been homeless and living in Los Angeles, near the hospital where she died.<\/p>\n
Chase was 11 when \u201cLilo & Stitch\u201d became a box office hit, and stayed on as the character\u2019s voice for television and video game projects.<\/p>\n
She was also cast as the English language voice of Chihiro, the lead heroine in Studio Ghibli\u2019s \u201cSpirited Away,\u201d which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.<\/p>\n
Her career as a child actor included live-action work, and she appeared in a Campbell\u2019s Soup commercial and played a kid sister to Jake Gyllenhaal in his title turn as \u201cDonnie Darko\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 2002\u2019s \u201cThe Ring,\u201d Chase played the part of villain Samara Morgan who crawled out of televisions, with her long black hair obscuring her face, to terrify viewers. The performance earned her the \u201cBest Villain\u201d MTV Movie Award in 2003.<\/p>\n
TMZ identified her boyfriend as Roy Hernandez and cited a fundraising web page he created to fund her health care wherein he detailed some of her hardships.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a difficult childhood and a painful falling out with her family, Daveigh was bullied and struggled to find safety and happiness in downtown LA,\u201d Hernandez wrote on the page. \u201cTogether, we found moments of happiness and hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chase\u2019s representation did not immediately respond to a query from AFP. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n
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