Actress Christine Cavanaugh, best known for lending her voice as the pig to the movie "Babe" in 1995 died at 51.

Her family confirmed the she died at her home in Cedar City, Utah on December 22. There is no other information on the cause of her death.

Aside from the movie Babe, Cavanaugh's resume showing her skills in voice-over included Chuckie Finster from the hit Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats," the scientist Dexter in Cartoon Network's "Dexter's Laboratory" and Gosalyn Waddlemeyer-Mallard from Disney's "Darkwing Duck." She frequently gets the job because of her skills in sounding like a boy.

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In an interview with the Toronto Star Newspaper in 2000, Cavanaugh said that she found freedom in voice-over acting. She is able to do things she is not able to do on camera, like she can be an old person or she can also be a baby, animals and the list goes on. She found passion in her job and thought it was wonderful.
The talented voice-over actress showed up on the red carpet during the 1996 Academy Awards ceremony with a handbag that was bejeweled by Judith Leiber and it was shaped like a pig.

After Cavanaugh's contract negotiations was stalled, another voice-over actress took the part and it was E.G. Daily who became Babe's voice for the 1998 installment Babe: Pig In The City.

Cavanaugh and Daily were both members of a small group of voice-over actors for TV in Hollywood and they too have worked on Rugrats. The actors hired for the job recorded all their lines together in the studio.

In a 2000 interview with the Vancouver Province, Cavanaugh said that the voices came out of interacting, acting like babies when they were working on Rugrats and it was as if they were just goofing off.

She later on retired from doing voice-over acting in 2001 after her divorce.

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