Unfortunately, another talented performer has passed away in 2014. Christine Cavanaugh, who voiced Chuckie Finster on the Nickelodeon series Rugrats and Babe the pig from the 1995 film Babe, died at the age of 51 on Monday, Dec. 22. According to TMZ.com, at this time, “the details surrounding her death are unclear.”
In addition to her work on Rugrats and in Babe, Cavanaugh provided the voice for Dexter in the Cartoon Network series Dexter’s Laboratory and also voiced roles in Disney’s Aladdin, The Critic, Recess, The Powerpuff Girls and The Wild Thornberrys. She retired from voice acting in 2001, and Nancy Cartwright, famous for voicing Bart Simpson on the long-running FOX animated series The Simpsons, was brought in to replace her as the voice of Chuckie on Rugrats.
Although she was primarily a voice actress, Cavanaugh also guest starred on several different television series throughout her career. She appeared on The X-Files (photographed above), Cheers, and ER, among other shows.
Cavanaugh attended college at Utah State University and University of Hawaii before moving to California to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Her career began in 1988, and per her obituary in the Los Angeles Times, Cavanaugh’s big break occurred in 1991, “when she used her amazing talent to bring Goslyn Duck from Dark Wing Duck to life.”
Although she had no biological children of her own, Cavanaugh was the godmother to Isabel Torres, daughter of her childhood friend Susan Yoshikawa. She leaves behind her father, Kirt Johnson, sister, Deionn Masock, and brother, Kitris Johnson, along with her half siblings and many nieces and nephews.
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