# Christine Cavanaugh dies at 51. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593 "2014-12-31T04:58:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArztWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@ArztWolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArztWolf)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/1 "2014-12-31T04:58:53Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/30/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/feat-obit-christine-cavanaugh-babe-rugrats-voice/](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. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/2 "2014-12-31T05:35:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/3 "2014-12-31T09:25:58Z")
Wait. She played _Dexter,_ and the headline led with Babe the pig and a Rugrats character? OK, maybe my tastes are unusual… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/4 "2014-12-31T12:56:19Z")
I heard her voice so often as a kid. Can’t believe she’s gone. ☹ She was also Marty Sherman on The Critic. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/5 "2014-12-31T13:30:43Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Wait. She played _Dexter,_ and the headline led with Babe the pig and a Rugrats character? > > OK, maybe my tastes are unusual… Nope - we love Dexter’s La-BOR-atory in our house. Wow, she did good work. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/6 "2015-01-02T03:25:43Z")
Well that stinks. One of her few acting appearances was in _Small Potatoes_, one of the best _X-Files_ episodes ever! ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-cavanaugh-dies-at-51/708593/7 "2015-01-03T06:19:26Z")
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.