Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982 in Purvis, Mississippi) is an American film and television actress.
Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi to Tony Chabert (a French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana) and Julie; she has a brother, T.J., and two sisters, Wendy and Crissy, as well as a dog, Abu. She is a practicing Christian.
Chabert made her start as Cosette in Les Misérables on Broadway. Chabert was a member of the Broadway Kids which included Christy Carlson Romano , Chris Trousdale , and Greg Raposo. She became famous worldwide for her role as Claudia Salinger in the TV drama Party of Five. Since 1998, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys; she also voiced Eliza in two Wild Thornberrys movies, The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild! (2003). In addition, she also had an uncredited role as the voice of Meg Griffin in the animated cartoon Family Guy, for thirteen episodes from 1999-2000. Lacey also had a role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a made-for-TV movie produced by Christopher Reeve, in which she played Brooke Ellison, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard. She also starred in Daddy Day Care (2003), as Gretchen in Mean Girls (2004) and the made for TV movie Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) on ABC Family.
Chabert lives in Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 when she began work on Party of Five.
Chabert won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team for Mean Girls, shared with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried. She won both the 1997 and 1998 Hollywood Reporter's Annual YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series for Party of Five, and had been nominated three other times for work 1999-2000. The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV and music performances made exclusively by 6 to 18 year olds and are voted on by the Hollywood Reporter readers.
