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Lacey Chabert
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- #001
Before Mila Kunis took over the role, Lacey Chabert was the original voice of Meg Griffin in the first 13 episodes of Family Guy (1999). She was not listed in the credits for the role.
- #002
She was the first and only choice considered to play Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls (2004).
- #003
On September 1, 2016, at age 33, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Julia Mimi Bella Nehdar. The child's father is her husband, David Nehdar.
- #004
She was Miss Jr. Mississippi.
- #005
The character she played in Not Another Teen Movie (2001) is a parody of the role her former Party of Five (1994) co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt played in Can't Hardly Wait (1998).
- #006
Lacey's French surname is pronounced "shah-BEHR." Her paternal grandfather was half Cajun (an ethnic group made up mostly of descendants of Acadian exiles, French speakers from Acadia, now known as the Maritimes, living mostly in the U.S. state of Louisiana) and half Sicilian, and her paternal grandmother was mostly Cajun with some English ancestry. Her mother is of English and Scottish descent, with very distant Italian roots dating back to the 1500s.
- #007
Before taking on the role of Claudia on Party of Five (1994), she played Cosette in "Les Miserables" on Broadway (and even occasionally played the male character Gavroche).
- #008
She posed twice for the men's magazine Maxim: first in early 2007 at age 24, and later in late 2013 at age 31.
- #009
She has three chihuahuas named Tea Cup, Tea Spoon and Tea Leaf.
- #010
She was among the celebrities who served food at the third annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner, with proceeds going to the Los Angeles Homeless Health Services (October 1996).
- #011
Her daughter Julia carries her mother's name, at least in part.
- #012
She was among the celebrities who served $250 meals at the fifth annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner at the Palm Restaurant in L.A., with proceeds benefiting Victory Over Violence (October 11, 1998).
- #013
She was the first of the four main cast members of Mean Girls (2004) to marry and have a child.
- #014
The date shown in the opening scene of Lost in Space (1998) is September 30, 2058, her 76th birthday.
- #015
She was originally cast to play Chloe Steele in Left Behind III: World at War (2005), but a scheduling conflict made it impossible. Janaya Stephens took the role instead.
- #016
She has one brother (TJ) and two sisters (Wendy and Chrissy). She has a dog named Abu.
- #017
She ranked 99th on VH1's Top 100 Child Stars list (2005).
- #018
She had a small role as Anne Martin in Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009), but all of her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
- #019
She ranked 90th on Maxim magazine's 2008 Hot 100 list.
- #020
Lacey Chabert ranked 45th on Maxim's 2014 "Hot 100" list.
- #021
Lacey Chabert was a childhood friend of rock star David Ham.
- #022
Lacey Chabert placed 32nd on Maxim magazine's 2007 Hot 100 list.
- #023
Lacey Chabert placed 56th on Maxim magazine's 2005 Hot 100 list.
- #024
Although Lacey Chabert's character in The Dancing Detective: A Deadly Tango (2023) is inexperienced at dancing, Chabert had danced in earlier productions, among them another Hallmark film, Christmas Waltz (2020), in which she occasionally appeared alongside her co-star Will Kemp, himself a professional dancer who had previously worked with the Royal Ballet in London.
- #025
Lacey Chabert was born on the same date as Kieran Culkin.
- #026
Lacey Chabert and Heather Graham are close friends.
- #027
Lacey Chabert is Trishelle Cannatella's third cousin.
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