Fiona Dourif's Real Name: Fiona Dourif

Quick answer: Fiona Dourif is documented professionally as Fiona Dourif. TV Insider records that form and gives her birth date as October 30, 1981, in Woodstock, New York (TV Insider; Polygon).

Real name and early life

TV Insider names her father as the actor Brad Dourif and says that, despite that family connection, she grew up with no plans to act. She took "mischievous joy," the same profile says, in being the daughter of the performer who voiced Chucky in the Child's Play films, but did not consider acting until producer David Milch, who had worked with her father on Deadwood, suggested she try it and offered to pay for a class. Polygon likewise identifies her as Brad Dourif's daughter and says she made her acting debut on Deadwood in 2005. A longer given-name form sometimes seen elsewhere is not independently documented in these two accounts.

Career highlights

TV Insider says her first on-screen appearance was in three episodes of Deadwood in 2005, though she was so nervous on set that producers recast her in a less prominent role. Confidence from that experience led to a part in the miniseries Thief (2006), then film work including The Messenger (2009) and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master (2012), and a regular role in the fourth season of True Blood in 2011. In 2013 she was cast as Nica Pierce in Curse of Chucky, beginning a collaboration with the franchise her father had voiced for decades. Polygon says she reprised Nica in Cult of Chucky and in the later Chucky television series, and that, unlike those earlier joint credits or even Deadwood, the third-season finale of the series gave father and daughter a chance to act on screen across from each other. TV Insider also lists a starring role on Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–). Later credits that appear only as recent program listings on that site, including 2025 television titles, are not treated here as long-established biographical facts. This page stays with the career documented in the TV Insider narrative biography and in the Polygon interview about the Chucky family collaboration.

Name notes for searchers

She is known professionally as Fiona Dourif. Searchers looking for Nica Pierce in the Chucky films and series, or for Brad Dourif's actress daughter, are usually aiming at the same person.