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Eric Bauza, Voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dies at 46

Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award winning voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and dozens of other cartoon characters, has died at the age of 46. His family announced his sudden death on his official Instagram account and gave no cause.

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Eric Bauza, Voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Dies at 46

Key points

  • Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award winning voice actor who became the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and many other Looney Tunes characters, died on Saturday, October 25, 2026, at the age of 46.
  • Bauza voiced Bugs Bunny, a role he shared with Jeff Bergman, along with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian and Woody Woodpecker.
  • Bauza was born on December 7, 1979, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and was of Filipino descent.

Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award winning voice actor who became the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and many other Looney Tunes characters, died on Saturday, October 25, 2026, at the age of 46. His family announced his death on Sunday in a statement posted to his official Instagram account. The family said he had passed away suddenly and that more details would come. The statement gave no cause of death.

Bauza voiced Bugs Bunny, a role he shared with Jeff Bergman, along with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian and Woody Woodpecker. For a generation of children, his voice was the sound of those characters in new cartoons, films and video games.

A career built in animation

Bauza was born on December 7, 1979, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and was of Filipino descent. His father and grandfather were fans of classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes. He attended Cardinal Newman Catholic High School in Scarborough and graduated from Centennial College in 2000.

He started work in animation production as a character designer and production artist at the studio Spumco. His early voice work included the role of Stimpy in the 2003 revival Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, taking over a character first voiced by Billy West. His credits then spread across television series, films, video games and shorts for major animation studios.

The voice of a new Looney Tunes era

Bauza began working in the Looney Tunes franchise in 2011 as the voice of Marvin the Martian. He later became one of the main voices of the franchise, playing Bugs Bunny in series such as Looney Tunes Cartoons and in the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy, and voicing Bugs Bunny again in the 2024 video game MultiVersus.

In 2022, he won the first ever Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program for his work on Looney Tunes Cartoons. He won two more Children's and Family Emmy Awards, in 2023 for Bugs Bunny Builders and in 2025 for Teen Titans Go.

His other well known roles included Puss in Boots in The Adventures of Puss in Boots and Baby Fozzie in Muppet Babies. Earlier this year, he had a dozen credits in Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes film that Warner Bros. Discovery shelved in 2023 before Ketchup Entertainment distributed it this year. Kotaku described the film as one of his final performances.

Bauza is survived by his wife, Jessica, whom he married in 2016, and by one son.

Timeline

  1. Dec 7, 1979Eric Bauza is born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He later graduates from Centennial College in 2000.
  2. 2003Bauza voices Stimpy in the revival Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, one of his early voice roles.
  3. 2011Bauza begins working in the Looney Tunes franchise as the voice of Marvin the Martian.
  4. 2022Bauza wins the first ever Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program for Looney Tunes Cartoons.
  5. 2025Bauza wins a third Children's and Family Emmy Award, for Teen Titans Go, after a 2023 win for Bugs Bunny Builders.
  6. Oct 25, 2026Bauza dies at the age of 46. His family announces his death the next day in a statement on his official Instagram account, saying he passed away suddenly.

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