Daveigh Chase

Yep.

So Daveigh Chase, uh, who plays Samara, she's the act- the little actress who plays Samara, uh, interestingly was the voice of Lilo in Lilo & Stitch.

Oh.

Um, also she was Chihiro in Spirited Away.

So even though she has a very creepy voice, she also the, has like one of the sweetest and cutest voices ever.

Uh, tragically, we lost Daveigh Chase this year.

Mm-hmm.

Um, she had complications, um, with a blood infection involving sepsis, so we lost her earlier this year.

It's blunt, but it's true.

And another user, SmokeyManLive, specifically adds, "RIP Daveigh Chase."

We have to pause and contextualize the gravity of that for you, the listener.

Yeah, let's explain who that is.

Daveigh Chase played Samantha Darko, Donnie's younger sister.

The one in Sparkle Motion.

Yes.

And I, ugh, I do wanna take the, a moment to also...

I, I had forgotten that D- Daveigh Chase, who plays Samara in this, passed away this year.

And yeah, I just wanted to say this is also, I think this is such an amazing child performance.

Um-

When her parents are changed into pigs, she's forced to work in a bathhouse by a powerful witch.

The English dub of the film, starring the late Davé Chase, the late Suzanne Flechette in her final film role, the late David Ogden Stiers, Michael Checklis and James Marsden, opened in limited release on September 30, 2002 for an Oscar-qualifying run.

It was the very first traditional hand-drawn and animated film to win the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.

As of March 2026, it's the highest-rated animated film on the Internet Movie Database, ranking at number 31 on the top 250.