Daveigh Chase who starred in The Ring and Lilo & Stitch has died, aged 35.
The actress died from sepsis after suffering from meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital, according to her manager John Ryan.
“She was the greatest. She loved cats. She worked with cat rescues with us. She was very to herself, ” he told BBC News, noting that Chase would often retreat to her home in Las Vegas for years at a time and turn down big studio films to do independent projects.
“She was not very Hollywood,” Ryan added. “She’d rather eat at Bob’s Big Boy and go home with the cats. She loved acting but wasn’t into the fame scene.”
Chase landed her first TV role in Hollywood at the age of seven, booking a small part in the sitcom Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
Her Hollywood breakthrough came in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko, the sister of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) and later played the lead role in the 2009 sequel S Darko.
In 2002 she played Samara Morgan, the long-haired ghost that crawls out of the telly – in the horror film The Ring – an American remake of the Japanese classic about a videotape that makes people die after they watch it.
That same year she voiced the character Lilo in the animated version of Lilo & Stitch. The part earned her an Annie Award for best voice acting in an animated feature production and she continued to voice the character in later spin-offs.
She also appeared in single-episode roles in the TV dramas Charmed, ER and Touched By An Angel and Chase had a 32-episode stint in the HBO polygamy drama Big Love, playing child bride Rhonda Volmer.
Chase had a series of legal run-ins later in life, including being charged with drug possession and joyriding in a stolen car, according to The Hollywood Reporter.