Charles Lee " Chucky " Ray is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Child's Play slasher film franchise . Chucky is portrayed as a notorious "dead" serial killer whose spirit inhabits a "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 , and has been referenced numerous times in popular 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 writer-director Don Mancini and is portrayed by Brad Dourif in both live action and voice over. [4] For the 2019 remake of the same name , Mark Hamill voiced Chucky, having previously voiced the Charles Lee Ray version of the character in an episode of Robot Chicken . Chucky made his first appearance in the 1988 film Child's Play . In the film, serial killer Charles Lee Ray (