Daveigh Chase, 'Lilo and Stitch' and 'The Ring' actor, cause of death revealed

Former kid prima Daveigh Chase, who terrified viewers climbing retired of a tv surface successful “The Ring” and voiced the lovable outcast Lilo successful “Lilo & Stitch,” died of AIDS, the Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner said.

The aesculapian examiner’s study said Chase, 35, died astatine a infirmary June 16. The study listed AIDS, which is caused by HIV, arsenic the origin and chronic polysubstance usage — utilizing much than 1 cause oregon substance astatine the aforesaid clip oregon wrong a abbreviated play — arsenic a “significant condition.”

Chase’s father, John David Schwallier, told the New York Times soon aft his daughter’s decease that she died of complications from bacterial meningitis and a humor infection. He told the outlet that Chase had battled with cause addiction and was stateless earlier her death.

Chase began her Hollywood vocation successful the precocious 1990s, with insignificant roles successful fashionable TV bid including “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Charmed” and “ER,” and starred successful aggregate beloved films astatine the crook of the century. She played Samantha, the younger sister of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Donnie Darko, successful the 2001 cult classical of the aforesaid name.

The aforesaid twelvemonth Chase voiced Lilo successful “Lilo & Stitch,” she besides played the iconic shade miss Samara Morgan successful the fearfulness flick “The Ring.”

Chase told The Times successful 2002 that she took her ain dependable “and enactment this freaky twist connected it” to play the character. The show earned her the grant for champion villain astatine the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.

Staff writer Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.