Daveigh Chase, known for The Ring, dies at 35

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That same year, she lent her voice to Chihiro Ogino for the English language version of Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away, though it was the following year that truly established her. In 2002, she voiced the title character in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, playing an orphaned girl from Hawaii who adopts what she believes is an unusual stray dog, only to discover he is actually an alien named Stitch. The role carried her through multiple sequels and into the animated series that ran from 2003 to 2006.

Chase’s other major 2002 role pushed her in the opposite direction entirely. She appeared as Samara Morgan, the pale, dark haired ghost at the center of Gore Verbinski’s horror hit The Ring, a performance so unsettling that it became inseparable from the film itself despite Chase being only 12-years-old at the time.

Television work continued through the following decade. From 2006 to 2011, she had a recurring role as Rhonda Volmer, a calculating teenager, on HBO’s Big Love, and in 2009 she returned to the world of Donnie Darko by reprising Samantha in the spinoff S. Darko.

Her final film role came in 2016, in director Thomas Dekker’s horror feature Jack Goes Home, after which she stepped away from acting almost entirely. In the GoFundMe post, Hernandez described some of the harder chapters of her life away from the screen, referencing bullying she had faced and a rift with her family. He wrote that she had a difficult time finding stability and safety while living in downtown Los Angeles, but that the two of them had still managed to find genuine moments of happiness together before her health took a turn.

According to TMZ, she had been hospitalized earlier in the month for malnutrition, shortly before the infections that ultimately led to her death.