Christine Cavanaugh dies at 51.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/30/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/feat-obit-christine-cavanaugh-babe-rugrats-voice/

Most people won’t recognize her name, but she was the voice of Chucky from The Rugrats and Babe (the pig) in Babe.

51 is too young. She retired a while back, though, so I wonder if it was some long term illness. Anyway, my favorite role of hers was Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory.

Wait. She played Dexter, and the headline led with Babe the pig and a Rugrats character?

OK, maybe my tastes are unusual…

I heard her voice so often as a kid. Can’t believe she’s gone. :frowning: She was also Marty Sherman on The Critic.

Nope - we love Dexter’s La-BOR-atory in our house. Wow, she did good work.

Well that stinks. One of her few acting appearances was in Small Potatoes, one of the best X-Files episodes ever!

I was also a fan of her voice work and I was surprised to see that she had passed. I knew I hadn’t heard her in anything new for a while. My favorite character that she voiced was Dexter. Oblina from “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters” (a show that never got the love it deserved) was a close second.