Chase's big break came in 1998 when she won the lead role as the voice of a Hawaiian girl,
Lilo Pelekai, in the
Disney animated feature,
Lilo & Stitch (2002). The film relates how Lilo befriends a strange and destructive blue alien thinly disguised as a dog, whom she calls "
Stitch", and how she tries to teach him how to behave using
Elvis Presley music as exemplars. For her performance, Chase would go on to win an
Annie Award in 2003 and star in the follow-up TV series,
Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Chase also voiced the role of the lead character,
Chihiro Ogino, a 10 year-old Japanese girl, in the American dub of the anime Japanese feature,
Spirited Away. In 2002, Chase starred in the role of
Samara Morgan in the
feature film,
The Ring. Chase was awarded the
2003 Best Villain award at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance, beating out
Mike Myers,
Colin Farrell,
Willem Dafoe and
Daniel Day-Lewis. In the sequel to
The Ring,
The Ring Two (2005), Chase was credited for her role as Samara Morgan because of the use of archive footage from the first
Ring, but
Kelly Stables performed all of the new archive footage. Chase's main other major film and TV credits between 2000 and 2005 were the film
Donnie Darko (2001), as Donnie's younger sister, Samantha, and
Oliver Beene (2003–2004), as Oliver's quirky girlfriend Joyce. Other credits include
The Rats (2002),
Carolina (2003), ''R.L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse
(2003) in which she played a ghost called Annabel, and Beethoven's 5th (2003). She also made guest appearances in Touched by an Angel, Charmed, ER, Family Law, and The Practice''. In 2006, Chase was given the role of
Rhonda Volmer in the
HBO drama series
Big Love which centers on a
polygamist family and its patriarch, Bill Henrickson, played by
Bill Paxton. The show focuses upon Henrickson's relationship with his three wives. Chase's character is the child bride of a prophet, Roman Grant, played by
Harry Dean Stanton.
Leroy & Stitch, the finale to
Lilo & Stitch: The Series, was released in 2006, making it the last time Chase voiced Lilo. Chase then appeared in the second season of
Big Love, which aired in 2007. She also voiced Betsy in the PBS show ''
Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures'' the same year. She reprised her role as Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha, in the film
S. Darko. The story picks up seven years after the first film when Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 years old and on a road trip to Los Angeles when they are afflicted by bizarre visions. In 2015, she starred in the thriller film
Killer Crush and in the independent horror film
Wild in Blue with
Karen Black. In 2016, she starred in the thriller film
American Romance with
Nolan Gerard Funk, and appeared in the thriller film
Jack Goes Home with
Rory Culkin,
Britt Robertson,
Lin Shaye and
Nikki Reed. ==Filmography==