Chase’s supervisor, John Ryan Jr, informed the BBC final week she had died from sepsis after affected by meningitis in an LA hospital.
The previous youngster star, who was also called Daveigh Schwallier, started appearing at 4 years outdated, reserving her first Hollywood job when she was seven, however she retired from appearing full time in 2015, her supervisor stated.
Her first TV position in Hollywood at age seven was a small half within the common Melissa Joan Hart-led sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Chase’s Hollywood breakthrough got here in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko and later performed the titular character’s sister within the 2009 movie S Darko.
In 2002, Chase starred as Samara Morgan, the long-haired ghost that crawls out of the telly within the horror movie The Ring, an American remake of the Japanese basic a couple of videotape that makes individuals die after they watch it.
She earned a 2003 MTV Film Award for greatest villain for her flip because the spooky demon-like character that crawls on its fingers and ft earlier than killing victims.
Additionally in 2002, she voiced the Elvis-adoring Hawaiian woman Lilo within the animated hit Lilo & Sew.
The half earned her an Annie Award for greatest voice appearing in an animated function manufacturing and he or she continued to voice the character in spin-offs.
In accordance with the Hollywood Reporter, Chase had a slew of authorized run-ins later in life, together with being charged with drug possession and joyriding in a stolen automobile.