Chase’s manager, John Ryan Jr., told BBC News last week that Chase died of sepsis after suffering from meningitis in an Los Angeles hospital.
The former child star, also known as Daveigh Schwallier, began acting at age 4 and booked her first Hollywood job at age 7, but retired from full-time acting in 2015, her manager said.
Her first TV role in Hollywood at the age of seven was a small role in the popular sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, led by Melissa Joan Hart.
Chase had her breakthrough in Hollywood when she starred as Samantha Darko in 2001’s Donnie Darko and later played that character’s sister in the 2009 film S Darko.
In 2002, Chase starred as Samara Morgan, a long-haired ghost who crawls out of a TV, in the horror film The Ring, an American remake of the Japanese classic about a videotape that causes people to die after watching it.
She won the 2003 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for her creepy, demonic character that crawls on her hands and feet before killing her victims.
Also in 2002, she voiced Lilo, a Hawaiian girl who loves Elvis, in the animated hit Lilo & Stitch.
For this part, she won the Annie Award for Best Voice Actor in an Animated Feature Production, and she went on to voice the character in the spinoff.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chase had numerous legal problems later in his life, including drug possession charges and charges of driving a stolen car.
