Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (January 8, 1986 – September 8, 2003) was a Canadian actress who voiced Caillou

Caillou

Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...

 from 2000-2003. She also provided the voices for Bitzi in the 2002 animated series Daft Planet, Lori Mackney in What's With Andy? (2003), and Meg in Mega Babies. Linetsky was born and raised in a Jewish family in the suburb of Hampstead

Hampstead, Quebec

-History:The Town of Hampstead was founded in 1914. It was designed to be an exclusive garden city. There are no retail shops within municipal boundaries. Houses were assigned relatively large lots to allow space for trees and shrubbery. The town's roads were designed with curves in order to slow...

 in Montreal, Quebec to Larry and Terry Linetsky. Linetsky dubbed the English voice for Caillou in the preschool animated series of the same name

Caillou

Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...

 between 2000 and 2002. She also provided the voices for Bitzi in the 2002 animated series Daft Planet

Daft Planet

Daft Planet was a Canadian cartoon, first airing on Teletoon Canada. It originally ran from September 2, 2002 to December 12, 2002. Its main claim to fame is that it was the first cartoon in the world that was made in Flash and appeared on a national television network...

, Lori Mackney in What's With Andy?

What's with Andy?

What's with Andy? is a Canadian animated series that started on September 22, 2001 and ended on March 4, 2007. It was originally an interactive Flash movie with completely different voice actors and a promotion for Fox Kids. Shortly after, a TV series was developed with new voice actors and it...

(2003–2004), and Meg in Mega Babies

Mega Babies

Mega Babies is a Canadian cartoon created by the Tremblay brothers, Christian and Yvon, and produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder....

.

Her other roles in voice acting included Kit and Kaboodle, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

Sagwa is the name of a cat in the children's book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by author Amy Tan. Sagwa's popularity with children prompted an educational animated series of the same name on PBS Kids, with production held by French animation studio CineGroupe and Sesame Street creator Sesame...

, The Kids from Room 402

The Kids from Room 402

The Kids from Room 402 is a television program that originally aired on Fox Family in the USA starting in 1999, previously aired on Teletoon, and currently airs in the UK.The show is focused primarily on the students from Room 402, as the title implies...

, Wunschpunsch

Wunschpunsch

Wunschpunsch is an animated series inspired by the novel The Night of Wishes by Michael Ende.In every episode, a wizard named Bubonic and his aunt, a witch named Tyrannia, must wreak havoc on the city in which they live or suffer a severe punishment from their supervisor, Maledictus Maggot...

, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures is an animated TV series that aired on HBO from March 1, 1998 to early 2001. The show follows the adventures of two mice, Emily and her cousin Alexander, who go on adventures around the world in the early 20th century, usually to stop the evil rat...

, Pet Pals, Tommy and Oscar

Tommy and Oscar

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, Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings

Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is a British children's animated television programme, featuring the adventures of a young child named Simon, who has a magic chalkboard...

, Jim Button

Jim Button

Jim Knopf, nicknamed Jim Button , is considered by many to be one of the "fathers" of shareware . As an IBM employee, he wrote a program to help with a local church congregation. When demand for his program consumed too much of his time, he quit IBM and created Buttonware...

and popular videogames Alex Builds His Farm and Evolution Worlds

Evolution Worlds

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. She graduated from St. George's High School, Montreal in 2003 and spoke at the graduation ceremony. That year, Linetsky was cast in the tennis-circuit themed dramatic series 15/Love

15/Love

15/Love is a Canadian-produced television series that revolves around the lives of aspiring young tennis players at the Cascadia Tennis Academy. The show was created by Karen Troubetzkoy and Derek Schreyer, and was filmed in the city of Montreal during the summer. 15/Love first aired on the...

on YTV. Her character, Megan O'Conner, was mutually falling in love with co-star Vadim Schneider's character, Sebastien Dube.

Death

On September 8, 2003, Linetsky and Schneider were driving to the filming of an episode of 15/Love when the minivan lost control and collided with oncoming traffic. Both actors were killed in the accident. Their deaths were put into the storyline with Megan and Sebastian being killed in a plane crash while on their way home from a tennis tournament in Episode 12, Squib INC.

External links

• http://www.jaclynlinetsky.com The official website in memory of Jaclyn Linetsky