The daughter of Brad Dourif – the voice of Chucky in Child’s Play – is grateful for the opportunities she got because of her father
One of the most critically acclaimed TV shows on air right now is The Pitt. Starring Noah Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor, Katherine LaNasa and more, the hit medical drama follows a 15-hour shift at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Centre, with each episode covering roughly an hour. Season two of the Emmy-winning series premiered on January 8 and is the most-watched TV show on HBO Max at the time of writing, according to streaming data collection website FlixPatrol.
Noah Wyle, who has received his first lead actor Emmy nomination, in a scene from The Pitt. Photo: TNS
One of the most interesting character arcs on The Pitt season two so far is that of Cassie McKay, played by Fiona Dourif. She’s a doctor and a single mother who has a run-in with the law in the first season, but is reclaiming her love life in the second, pursuing a potential romance with an outgoing patient named Brian, played by Lawrence Robinson.
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“I think it’s been a long time since [McKay’s] been held or touched, and she’s thinking about those big questions,” Dourif said, per TVLine. “It was also cool that they wrote that for the actress in her forties.”
So, who is Fiona Dourif?
She’s a nepo baby
Fiona Dourif’s character, Cassie McKay, is reclaiming her love life in season two of medical drama The Pitt. Photo: @fionadourif/Instagram
Dourif was born on October 30, 1981, in Woodstock, New York, to actor Brad Dourif and psychic Joni Dourif. You might know her father from the Child’s Play franchise, where he’s the voice of Chucky, or from films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
Fiona Dourif with her father, Brad Dourif, behind the scenes of The Pitt. Photo: @fionadourif/Instagram
The veteran actor also appears in an episode of The Pitt as Dr McKay’s father, Neil.
Speaking to People, Dourif said that she’s “happy to be a nepo baby” and “very grateful” for the opportunities she got because of her father, though he didn’t want her acting as a child.
