Lacey Nicole Chabert is an American actress and voice actress. She first gained prominence as a child actress on television for her role as Claudia Salinger in the television drama Party of Five . She has also provided the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys and two feature films, and Meg Griffin during the first production season of the animated sitcom Family Guy. In film she has appeared in Lost in Space , Not Another Teen Movie , Daddy Day Care and had leading roles as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls , and as Dana Mathis in the horror remake Black Christmas .
Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, the daughter of Julie and Tony Chabert. Her father, a Frenchspeaker from Louisiana, is of Cajun, Sicilian and English descent he worked as a maintenance operations representative for an oil company. Her mother has English, Scottish, and remote Italian ancestry. Chabert has a younger brother, and two older sisters. She was Worlds Baby Petite in the Worlds Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition in 1985. In 1992 and 1993 she played Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misrables.
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