Cheryl Chase (born Cheryl Christine 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 ''

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'' and its spinoffs '' All Grown Up!'', ''

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'', and the reboot of the same name.

Early life and education

Chase was born on Christmas Day 1958 in

Manville, New Jersey Manville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The borough is located in the heart of the Raritan Valley region and is a part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's populatio ...

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. She is an

only child An only child is a person with no siblings, by birth or adoption. Children who have half-siblings, step-siblings, or have never met their siblings, either living at the same house or at a different house—especially those who were born consider ...

. Chase attended

Manville High School Manville High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Manville in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of ...

in 1977. She attended

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ...

majoring in

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and graduated in 1981. After college, Chase was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre.

Career

Chase, then known by her birth name Cheryl Hudock, made her onscreen debut alongside

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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 ''

'', '' All Grown Up!'', ''

'', and the ''Rugrats'' revival series. Chase's character Angelica Pickles placed #7 in

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'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), ''

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'', ''

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'' (As "Pinky"), '' Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water'' (as "Marie" in the Streamline Pictures English dub), and ''

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'' (as "Nurse"). Chase was also the voice behind

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and Little Miss Curious in the second season of ''

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'' under the name Sophie Roberts. Behind the mic, Chase provided the voice of Mei in the Streamline Pictures dub of the

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film ''

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'' 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 for Baby Pubert in ''

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'', an alien child in '' Total Recall'',

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's daughter in '' Baby Boom'' and voiced Angelica Pickles in ''

The Rugrats Movie ''The Rugrats Movie'' is a 1998 American animated comedy film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series '' Rugrats''. It was directed by Igor Kovalyov and Norton Virgien and was written by David N. Weiss & J. David Stem. The film int ...

'', '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'', and ''

Rugrats Go Wild ''Rugrats Go Wild'' is a 2003 American animated crossover adventure film based on the Nickelodeon animated television series ''Rugrats'' and ''The Wild Thornberrys''. It is the third and final installment in the ''Rugrats'' film series and the se ...

''. Chase's first children's book "That's Coola, Tallulah!" was published in March 2021. In 2021, she married producer and historian

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