Early life

Chabert was born in Purvis, Mississippi, the daughter of Julie (née Johnson) and Tony Chabert. Her father, a French-speaker from Louisiana, is of Cajun, Sicilian and English descent; he worked as a maintenance operations representative for an oil company. Her mother has English, Scottish, and remote Italian ancestry. Chabert has a younger brother, and two older sisters. She was "World's Baby Petite" in the "World's Our Little Miss Scholarship Competition in 1985. In 1992 and 1993 she played Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misérables.

Career

Chabert's first major role was as Claudia Salinger in Party of Five. Chabert made her debut to the big screen in the late 1990s starring as Penny Robinson in the fantasy-space thriller Lost in Space (1998). Since then, she has been the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, and has voiced Eliza in two films, The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild (2003). She then had a supporting role in the parody film Not Another Teen Movie as Amanda Becker. She provided the voice for Aleu in Balto 2: Wolf Quest (2002) and she provided the voice of Meg Griffin for the first production season of the animated sitcom Family Guy (1999), after which Mila Kunis took over the role as Chabert became busy with school work and her duties on Party of Five.

Chabert played the title role in The Brooke Ellison Story, a television film produced and directed by Christopher Reeve, based upon a real-life quadriplegic woman who overcame many obstacles to graduate from Harvard University. She starred in Mean Girls (2004) and the television film Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) on ABC Family. She appeared in a 2006 remake of Black Christmas. She appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer opposite former Party of Five costar Jennifer Love Hewitt. She performed the voice of Princess Elise from the game Sonic the Hedgehog for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. She also voiced Gwen Stacy in the animated series The Spectacular Spider-Man.

Chabert, along with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried, won the 2005 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Team for Mean Girls. She won both the 1997 and 1998 Hollywood Reporter Annual YoungStar Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama TV Series for Party of Five, and had been nominated three other times for work from 1999 to 2000. The YoungStar awards honor the best film, TV and music performances made exclusively by six to eighteen-year-olds.

In 2007, Chabert starred in the pilot episode of the Fox comedy The Hot Years, which revolved around the lives of four female friends who live together. The pilot was not ordered to series by Fox.

Chabert was featured as cover girl of the January 2007 issue of Maxim, and again in November 2013.

From 2013-2014, Chabert had a recurring role on the ABC Family sitcom Baby Daddy as Dr. Amy Shaw.

Personal life

Chabert lives in Southern California, where she moved with her family in 1994 to begin work on Party of Five.

Chabert married her longtime boyfriend, David Nehdar, on December 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. On February 27, 2016, she announced via Instagram that she and her husband are expecting their first child.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Gypsy	Baby June Hovick
1997	Anastasia	Young Anastasia Romanov	Singing voice only
1998	Lost in Space	Penny Robinson
2001
	Not Another Teen Movie	Amanda Becker
	Tart	Eloise Logan
2002	Hometown Legend	Rachel Sawyer
	Balto II: Wolf Quest	Aleu	Voice role
	The Scoundrel's Wife	Florida Picou
	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
2003	Rugrats Go Wild
	Daddy Day Care	Jenny
2004	Mean Girls	Gretchen Wieners
	Shadow of Fear	Allison Henderson
2005	Dirty Deeds	Meg Cummings
	High Hopes	Cindy
2006	Fatwa	Noa Goldman
	A New Wave	Julie
	The Pleasure Drivers	Faruza
	Black Christmas	Dana Mathis
	Hello Sister, Goodbye Life	Olivia Martin
2007	Being Michael Madsen	Vanessa Rapaport
2008	Sherman's Way	Marcy
	Reach for Me	Sarah
2009	The Lost	Jane
	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Sandra Volkom
2010	In My Sleep	Becky
	Thirst	Noelle
2011	A Holiday Heist	Jennifer
2012	The Ghost of Goodnight Lane	Dani
	Slightly Single in L.A.	Dale Squire
	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!	Charlotte (voice)	Video
2013	Telling of the Shoes	Abby
	Anything is Possible	Maggie
	Scarecrow	Kristen Miller
	Non-Stop	Amy
	Sanitarium	Ms. Lorne
	Off Season: Lex Morrison Story	Sally Summers
2014	The Color of Rain	Gina
	Christian Mingle	Gwyneth Hayden
	Living the Dream	Jenna Harris
	The Tree That Saved Christmas	Molly Logan
	A Royal Christmas	Emily Taylor
2015	The Lost Tree	Jenna
	All of My Heart	Jenny Fintley

Television, video games, direct to video/VHS

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Children's Palace and Child World	Herself	VHS "Video Toy Chest"
1991	A Little Piece of Heaven	Princess, or 'Hazal'
1992-93	All My Children	Bianca Montgomery	2 episodes
1993	Best Learning Songs Video Ever!		Voice role
	Best Busy People Video Ever!
1994-2000	Party of Five	Claudia Salinger	142 episodes
1994	Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever!		Voice role
	Best Sing-Along Mother Goose Video Ever!
1996	ABC Afterschool Special	Carly Gallagher	1 episode
	Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles	Bobbi Porter / Kim	2 episodes
	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Girl / Kids / Tiffany	4 episodes
1997	Redux Riding Hood	Red Riding Hood	Voice role
	Babes in Toyland	Jill
	The Oz Kids Journey Beneath the Sea	Merla (voice)
	When Secrets Kill	Jenny Newhall	TV film
1997-98	Hey Arnold!	Ruth P. McDougal	2 episodes
1998-2004	The Wild Thornberrys	Eliza Thornberry / Additional Voices / Cub	85 episodes, voice role
1998	Stories From my Childhood	Jenny	1 episode
	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Young Vitani	Voice role
	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	Tanya
	Hercules	Callista
1999	An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster	Tanya
	We Wish You a Merry Christmas	Cindy
1999-2000, 2012	Family Guy	Meg Griffin / Jan Brady	14 episodes; 1 guest appearance
2001	The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
	Nicktoons Racing
2002	The Proud Family		1 episode, voice role
	Strong Medicine	Mary	1 episode
	Jackie Chan Adventures	Cheerleader 2	1 episode, voice role
	The Drew Carey Show	Grace	1 episode
2003	Rugrats Go Wild: The Video Game	Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
2004	Brooke Ellison Story, TheThe Brooke Ellison Story	Brooke Ellison	TV film
2005	American Dragon: Jake Long	Jasmine	1 episode, voice role
	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Surthanna
2005-06	Bratz	Kaycee	Voice role
2006	She Said/He Said		TV film
	Hello Sister, Goodbye Life	Olivia Martin	TV film
	Ghost Whisperer	Donna Ellis	1 episode
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Princess Elise III	Voice role
2007	Me, Eloise		1 episode, voice role
	What If God Were the Sun?	Jamie Spagnoletti	TV film
2008-09	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Gwen Stacy	Voice role (main cast)
2009	The Lost	Jane	TV film
	Glenn Martin, DDS	Amish girl	1 episode, voice role
2010	Elevator Girl	Liberty (Libby) Taylor	TV film
2011-13	Young Justice	Zatanna Zatara	Voice role (guest star episodes 15 & 18, main cast episodes 19-present)
2011-15	Transformers: Rescue Bots	Danielle "Dani" Burns / Additional Voices	Voice role
2011	Mike DA Mustang	Angel	TV film
	Allen Gregory	Beth	Voice role
	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Mako
2012	Imaginary Friend	Emma Turner	TV film
	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Quake	Voice role
	Matchmaker Santa	Melanie Hogan	TV film
2013	Robot Chicken	Carly Shay / Eliza Thornberry	Voice role
	Injustice: Gods Among Us	Zatanna Zatara
	Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace	Melanie Staples	Voice role
	Young Justice: Legacy	Zatanna Zatara	Voice role
2013-14	Baby Daddy	Dr. Amy Shaw	6 episodes
2015	Infinite Crisis	Zatanna Zatara	Voice role
	Family for Christmas	Hanna Dunbar	TV film
	A Christmas Melody	Kristin
2016	The Twilight Fairies	Nia Reynolds, Additional Voices	Voice role
	Teachers	Ginny	1 episode
	Still the King	Laura Beth

Other media

• Les Misérables (1992-1993) Broadway Production ... young Cosette
• The Broadway Kids (1995) Audio CD (voice) ... The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway

[ Source: Wikipedia ]