A voice actress has died...

[Archae]

Christine Cavanaugh, Voice Behind Babe, Chuckie on Rugrats, Dexter on Dexter's Laboratory, Dies at 51

If you grew up in the ‘90s, chances are you’re familiar with the work of legendary cartoon voice actress Christine Cavanaugh. The voice behind Babe the pig, Chuckie from The Rugrats, Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory, and Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard on Darkwing Duck passed away on Dec. 22 at the age of 51.

Read more: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/christine-cavanaugh-voice-babe-chuckie-rugrats-dies-51-20143012#ixzz3NQaDI9O4

I remember her also as "Bunnie Rabbot" back in the 90's.

[951-Riverside]

1. Its a shame we only learned of her death 8 days later :/

[hifiguy]

2. Voice actors are ridiculously underappreciated.

My life would be far poorer without the likes of Mel Blanc, June Foray, Tara Strong, Patrick Warburton and so many, many others whose voices we all know but whose faces we probably do not.

RIP Ms Cavanaugh.

[NuclearDem]

10. That could not be more true.

The truly great voice actors are utterly irreplaceable.

I'll take that list and add John DiMaggio, Billy West, Troy Baker, Laura Bailey, Jennifer Hale, Charles Martinet, Mark Hamill, Dee Bradley Baker, and Frank Welker.

[JEFF9K]

3. Voice actor ...

sounds like the best job in the world. Where do you sign up?

[Demoiselle]

4. It is the best job in the world...

I wrote and produced and acted in many radio commercials in my youth. (Medieval Times.) It requires an ability to read something cold as if it were occurring to you right then…an ability which not everybody has, believe it or not….And it is FUN. And you can play a sexy beast (or beastess) even if you look like the back of a bus. And you get paid!

[Archae]

5. I couldn't agree more as to it being fun.

John DeLancie ("Q" from "Star Trek&quot is now a semi-regular on "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic."

The character "Cheese Sandwich" (a Pony that loved to party) was voiced by Weird Al Yankovich.

Elijah Wood voiced the dragon "Spyro" in three videogames.

Patrick Warburton does a lot of voice work for videogames, cartoons, etc.

[hifiguy]

6. The DeLancie story is a funny one.

The showrunners wanted to get someone "who sounds like John DeLancie" to voice the character Discord, a semi-malevolent trickster demigod whom the creators, primarily Lauren Faust, had based on Q from STNG. They found out that John would be happy to voice the character. He came in, did the part, and promptly forgot about it. Months later, when the episode aired (voices are always done before animation) he was deluged with e-mails saying that the fans loved his work.

He was so surprised that he investigated the Pony fandom further and eventually wound up as one of the prime movers of a well-done documentary about the fandom called "Bronies - The Wholly Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony."

He is now a virtually sainted figure in the brony community and Discord, now reformed, is one of the most popular characters on the show, though he still retains a lot of Q in his personality.

Weird Al is a friend of a couple of guys at the high levels of the show, and William Anderson, who writes all the show's incidental music, used to be in his band. Al's arm was not hard to twist regarding voicing a one-shot, and incredibly funny, character who is, oddly enough, an awful lot like Weird Al.

[Archae]

7. Both John DeLancie and Lauren Faust added their voices to this video.

"Meet the Bronies!"

[hifiguy]

9. That's in the documentary!

and that's the wonderful Tara Strong, voice of Twilight Sparkle in the show and Raven in Teen Titans among countless other credits) voicing the creative pegasister unicorn. Though the white unicorn/pegasus shown at 4:13 is Lauren's OC (original character, her pony avatar). Lauren was interviewed at length in the movie, however.

[NuclearDem]

8. Wood also voiced Sigma in Red vs Blue.

I almost didn't even recognize him.