Cheryl Chase
Born
Cheryl C. Hudock[1]

(1958-12-25) December 25, 1958
Manville, New Jersey, U.S.[2]
Occupations
  • Actress
  • author
Years active1982–present
Spouse
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(m. 2021)​
[3]

Cheryl Chase (born Cheryl C. Hudock; born December 25, 1958) is an American actress and children's book author. She is best known for voicing Angelica Pickles in the television series Rugrats and its spinoffs All Grown Up!, Angelica and Susie's Pre-School Daze, and the reboot of the same name.

Early life and education

Chase was born on Christmas Day 1958 in Manville, New Jersey, to Stella Sophia (Knapp) Hudock and Emil Robert Hudock. Both of her parents were entertainers: her mother was an actress and her father worked as a musician.[4] She is an only child.[4] Chase attended Manville High School in 1977.[5] She attended Brigham Young University majoring in early childhood education and graduated in 1981.[6] After college, Chase was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre.[4]

Career

Chase, then known by her birth name Cheryl Hudock, made her onscreen debut alongside Marie Osmond in the 1982 television movie, Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family. Chase is best known as the voice of Angelica Pickles on Rugrats,[7] All Grown Up!,[8] Angelica and Susie's Pre-School Daze, and the Rugrats revival series.[9] Chase's character Angelica Pickles placed #7 in TV Guide's "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" (August 2002). Her programs on which she has voiced characters include The Smart Talk with Raisin Show (as Raisin), The Ren & Stimpy Show,[10] Noozles (As "Pinky"), Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (as "Marie" in the Streamline Pictures English dub), and Random! Cartoons (as "Nurse").

Chase was also the voice behind Little Miss Bossy and Little Miss Curious in the second season of The Mr. Men Show under the name Sophie Roberts.

Behind the mic, Chase provided the voice of Mei in the Streamline Pictures dub of the Hayao Miyazaki film My Neighbor Totoro as well as Sachi in the Katsuhiro Otomo film Neo Tokyo; in the early Harmony Gold English Dragon Ball dub from the 1980s, she voiced Puar (Squeaker). On the big screen Chase provided the baby sounds[10] for Baby Pubert in Addams Family Values, an alien child in Total Recall, Diane Keaton's daughter in Baby Boom and voiced Angelica Pickles in The Rugrats Movie,[4] Rugrats in Paris: The Movie,[11] and Rugrats Go Wild.[12]

Chase's first children's book "That's Coola, Tallulah!" was published in March 2021.[13]

Personal life

On June 25, 2021, she married producer and historian Jerry Beck, her boyfriend of 33 years.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for Stella Sophia Hudock at Warker-Troutman Funeral Home". www.warkertroutmanfuneralhome.com.
  2. ↑ Bonko, Larry (July 20, 2001). "'VOICE TALENTS' TOILS ANONYMOUSLY". The Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved March 30, 2012. Cheryl Chase, a native of Manville, N.J., is probably the biggest TV star you never heard of. For the past 10 years, she's played a leading role on a TV show that's captured three Emmys and has been nominated for a fourth. They gave her show a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  3. 1 2 Beck, Jerry (June 25, 2021). "In 1988 I met my best friend - and today, 33 years later, we snuck away and made it official". Facebook.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Makin, Robert (November 15, 1998). "Demon diva is a golden goose". The Courier-News. p. 135.
  5. ↑ Lallkissoon, Shane. "Stars Out of Manville", Hoofprints, November 27, 2019. Accessed June 22, 2022. "Cheryl was born and raised in Manville, NJ and attended Manville High School for all 4 years, graduating in 1977."
  6. ↑ "Obituary for Stella Sophia Hudock at Warker-Troutman Funeral Home". www.warkertroutmanfuneralhome.com.
  7. ↑ Perlmutter, David (March 13, 2014). America Toons In: A History of Television Animation. McFarland & Company. p. 252. ISBN 9781476614885.
  8. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 28. ISBN 9780786486410.
  9. ↑ Yang, Rachel (February 24, 2021). "New Rugrats series with original voice cast to debut this spring". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  10. 1 2 "As Angelica Pickles, Cheryl Chase gets to release her inner brat". The Chicago Tribune. September 14, 2004. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  11. ↑ Willis, John; Monush, Barry (April 1, 2002). Screen World 2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 147. ISBN 9781557834799.
  12. ↑ Nichols, Peter M. (June 20, 2003). "TAKE THE CHILDREN; Diaper-Clad Adventurers Heed the Call of the Wild". The New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  13. ↑ "A new picture book from 'Rugrats' voice actress Cheryl Chase". KING-TV. June 8, 2021. Retrieved September 2, 2022.


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