Lacey Nicole Chabert (born September 30, 1982) is an American actress and
voice actress, best known for her roles as
Claudia Salinger in the television drama
Party of Five and as Gretchen Wieners in the movie
Mean Girls. She has also become famous for providing the voice of
Eliza Thornberry in
The Wild Thornberrys TV show and two feature films, as well as
Meg Griffin during the first production season of the animated sitcom
Family Guy.
Personal life
Chabert was born in
Purvis,
Mississippi, the daughter of Julie and Tony Chabert, a French-speaking
Cajun from
Louisiana who worked as a maintenance operations representative for an oil company.
[Lacey Chabert Biography (1982-)] She has a younger brother, T.J., and two older sisters, Wendy and Crissy, one of whom owns a restaurant in Purvis. Chabert lives in
Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 when she began work on
Party of Five. Lacey was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition" of 1985.
[Where Are They Now?]
