“She was the age I was when I was performing in ‘Les Misérables’ on Broadway,” recalled Chabert, who played Young Cosette in the iconic musical. PlayAn Acting ProdigyAs Chabert told the Clarion Ledger, her first professional acting gigs came in TV commercials. “I mean, day in and day out, the amount of dialogue that has to be memorized … I was a child,” she told Soap Opera Digest. “Sometimes it feels like she’s a much older person in the body of a 12-year-old,” Chabert’s mother told the Times. “I mean, I was just a little girl, and I just loved pretending to be this character,” Chabert told “Access Hollywood,” admitting that “Party of Five” was the catalyst for everything that followed.