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Aurora, also known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose, [1] [2] [3] is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film Sleeping Beauty (1959). Voiced by Mary Costa, Aurora is the only child of King Stefan and Queen Leah.
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
In Disney Princess Enchanted Tales, she, along with Stefan, Hubert, and Phillip, leave for a royal conference, leaving Aurora to rule the kingdom in their absence. In Maleficent , where she is portrayed by Hannah New , she is known as Queen Leila , the daughter and only child of Stefan's predecessor, King Henry.
Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. [1] [2] [3] She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts. [4]
Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.
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"Once Upon a Dream" serves as the film's main theme, and as the love theme of Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip. It is performed in the film by a chorus as an overture and third-reprise finale, as well by Mary Costa and Bill Shirley, who voiced the roles of Aurora and Phillip, respectively. [2] [3] [4]
The franchise's titular protagonist, Aurora, is part of the characters in the Disney Princess franchise. [12] The main antagonist of the franchise, Maleficent, is included as a regular character of the Disney Villains franchise, [13] [14] [15] while her sidekick raven Diablo also has minor recurring appearances in said franchise. [16] [17]