Lacey Chabert

Lacey Nicole Chabert ( ; born September 30, 1982) is an American actress. One of her first roles was playing Bianca Montgomery, the daughter of Erica Kane, on All My Children, from 1992 until 1993. She then gained further prominence as a child actress for her role as Claudia Salinger in the Fox television drama Party of Five (1994–2000). Chabert provided the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the Nickelodeon animated series The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004) along with two feature films, The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild. She was also the voice of Meg Griffin during the first season of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and superhero Zatanna Zatara in several parts of DC Comics-related media. She also provided the voice for Mako in Star Wars: The Old Republic. In film, she has appeared in Lost in Space (1998), Not Another Teen Movie (2001), and Daddy Day Care (2003), and had leading roles as Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls (2004), Meg Cummings in Dirty Deeds (2005), Dana Mathis in the horror remake Black Christmas (2006) and Penelope in the Christmas animated film All I Want for Christmas Is You (2017). Chabert has also appeared in over 30 Hallmark Channel films. Early life Lacey Nicole Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, on September 30, 1982. Her father is Cajun from Louisiana. She has a younger brother, Tony and an older sister, Chrissy. Their oldest sibling, Wendy died of a heart attack in November 2021. She was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" in 1985. She participated in beauty pageants as a child and was once named Miss Jr. Mississippi.