Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress, voice actress, and singer. She gained prominence as a child actress on television for her role as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five. She's best known for providing the voice of Eliza Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys Meg Griffin during the first season of Family Guy, and superheroine Zatanna Zatara in various pieces of DC Comics-related media.
Biography[]
Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi. Her father is Cajun. She was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" in 1985. One of her first roles was playing Erica Kane's daughter on All My Children.
Chabert played the role of Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway before taking the role of Claudia Salinger in Party of Five. Chabert made her big-screen debut in the late 1990s, starring as Penny Robinson in the space thriller Lost in Space. Since then, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, and has voiced Eliza in two films, The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild. She then had a supporting role in the parody film Not Another Teen Movie as Amanda Becker. She provided the voice for the title character's daughter Aleu in Balto 2: Wolf Quest and she provided the voice of Meg Griffin, unbilled, for the first season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, after which Mila Kunis took over the role.
Chabert played the title role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a movie produced and directed by Christopher Reeve, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard University. She co-starred in Mean Girls and the television film Hello Sister, Goodbye Life on ABC Family. She appeared in a 2006 remake of Black Christmas. She appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer opposite former Party of Five costar Jennifer Love Hewitt. She performed the voice of Princess Elise from the game Sonic the Hedgehog for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She also voiced Gwen Stacy in the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Chabert has been featured in several blogs and magazines such as Saturday Night, Maxim, Stuff, Disney Adventures, Eliza and Entertainment Weekly. She also modeled for Vanity Fair, Seventeen and Celebrity Sleuth.
From 2013–2014, Chabert had a recurring role on the ABC Family sitcom Baby Daddy as Dr. Amy Shaw. Chabert has also appeared in 18 Hallmark Channel movies and four Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movies, saying "I love working for Hallmark. They've been so good to me. I have friends there now. I'm proud of their movies and the message of their movies."
Chabert married her longtime boyfriend, David Nehdar, on December 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. Chabert gave birth to their daughter Julia in September 2016.
Filmography[]
Animation Dubbing[]
Animated Series[]
- Rayman: The Animated Series (1999) - Betina (2nd voice; ep. 3)
Animated Films[]
- The Last Petal (1977) - Jenny
Video Game Dubbing[]
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) - Princess Elise
External Links[]
- Lacey Chabert at the Internet Movie Database