Brad Dourif
The voice of Chucky since 1988.
Brad Dourif (born March 18, 1950) is an American actor who has voiced Chucky throughout the Child's Play franchise since 1988, and who plays the doll's human form, the serial killer Charles Lee Ray, in the first film. Outside the franchise he was nominated for an Academy Award as Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), played Grima Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and was nominated for Primetime Emmy and Satellite Awards as Doc Cochran in Deadwood. He is the father of Fiona Dourif, who plays Nica Pierce in Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky.
Last updated 2026-10-20 from the source article.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Bradford Claude Dourif
- Born
- 18 March 1950
- Birthplace
- Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1973–present
- Children
- Fiona Dourif
Facts from the source article.
Stage
Dourif began acting in school productions and community theater, joining the Huntington Community Players while at Marshall University. In New York, he studied with Sanford Meisner and worked with Marshall Mason and Lanford Wilson at the Circle Repertory Company. In the early 1970s, he appeared off-Broadway and in Woodstock, New York, in plays including The Ghost Sonata, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, and When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, where director Miloš Forman spotted him and cast him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
After a three-decade stage absence, Dourif returned in 2013 to star with Amanda Plummer in an Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, which ran from June 19 to September 29, 2013. He explained he broke his 29-year hiatus because Plummer was involved. The play had several cancellations, including one due to a death in Dourif's family; Plummer refused to perform without him despite an understudy being available.
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