Chrissy Parker (played by Maggie Lawson) is the "freak of the week" in the Smallville episode "Redux". She is a student at Smallville High School who possessed the bizarre ability to absorb the youth from others, causing her victims to age rapidly and herself to remain young. How she acquired this power is unknown except that she had it long before the meteor shower over Smallville, so her ability is in no way related to kryptonite like most of the series' early antagonists.
History[]
Chrissy's true age is unknown, though her parents died over a hundred years before she moved to Smallville, Kansas. After two consecutive cases of students rapidly aging and dying, Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan begin investigating the possible cause. Chloe's investigation reveals a number of cases of advanced progeria leading back as far as 1921 and discovers old photographs of Chrissy under a different name. For decades, Chrissy has been using her power to absorb the life energy of others to keep herself youthful and has repeatedly changed her identity as she moves to different towns across America, hoping to live what she considers to be the best years of a person's life forever.
Death[]
Chrissy confronts Principal Reynolds in the theatre hall of the Talon where the Spirit Week festival is to be held. Reynolds has been unable to contact Chrissy's family and Chrissy's stolen youth is wearing off, causing her to age rapidly. She decides to absorb the Principal's life next, but Clark finds her and stops her before she can go through with it. Clark shoves Chrissy away, and as she gets back up, she looks at her reflection in a revolving mirror cube that was part of the decor for the festival. As the mirror cube rotates, Chrissy watches her face wither in each side of the cube. In seconds, she ages so rapidly that her body deteriorates into a pile of dust.