Chucky (Child's Play)

Chucky
Child's Play character
The Chucky doll, as seen in Curse of Chucky
First appearance	Child's Play
Created by	Don Mancini and David Kirschner
Portrayed by	Brad Dourif
Information
Full name	Charles Lee Ray
Nickname(s)	Chucky The Lakeshore Strangler
Species	Good Guy Doll Human (previously)
Gender	Male
Spouse(s)	Tiffany (wife)
Children	Glen (son) Glenda (daughter)
Nationality	American

Charles Lee Ray (also known as "The Lakeshore Strangler", and nicknamed "Chucky") is a character and the titular antagonist of the Child's Play horror film series. Chucky is portrayed as a notorious serial killer whose spirit inhabits a fictional "Good Guy" doll and continuously tries to transfer his soul from the doll to a human body. The character has become one of the most recognizable horror icons, often mentioned alongside Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Ghostface, Leatherface, Pinhead and Michael Myers, and has been referenced numerous times in pop culture. In 1999, the Chucky character was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for the film Bride of Chucky. He was created by writers David Kirschner and Don Mancini and is portrayed and voiced by Brad Dourif in both live-action and voice-over.

Child's Play director Tom Holland explained that Chucky draws heavily from the My Buddy dolls: "I originally called him Buddy, and I couldn’t use it because of the ‘My Buddy’ doll. I went out, I got a ‘My Buddy’ doll, I got a Raggedy Ann, a Raggedy Andy and I got one of those life-size baby infants. And I still have it out back. They are the creepiest things in the world. And what I told [designer] Kevin Yagher was, I wanted Buddy, but I wanted the Raggedy Andy coloring – those button overalls, and I wanted the freckles and all that. And then I wanted the meanest-looking son of a [expletive] Raggedy Ann and Andy doll that you could create, but I wanted it with the creepiness of that infant doll."