List of Disney's Sleeping Beauty characters
| Prince Phillip | |
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| First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
| Portrayed by |
David Beckham (Disney Dreams Portraits photographs) Zac Efron (Disney Dreams Portraits photographs) Julian Morris (Once Upon a Time) Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent) |
| Voiced by |
Bill Shirley (original film) Roger Craig Smith (Disney Princess Enchanted Tales) Josh Robert Thompson (Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep) |
| King Stefan | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
| Portrayed by |
Sharlto Copley (Maleficent) Sebastian Roché (Once Upon a Time) |
| Voiced by |
Taylor Holmes (original film) Corey Burton (Disney Princess Enchanted Tales) |
| Queen Leah | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
| Portrayed by |
Hannah New (Maleficent) Judith Maxie (Descendants) |
| Voiced by |
Verna Felton (original film) Barbara Dirikson (Disney Princess Enchanted Tales) |
| King Hubert | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
| Voiced by |
Bill Thompson (original film) Jeff Bennett (Disney Princess Enchanted Tales) |
The following are fictional characters in Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty.
Princess Aurora is the title role of the film. After Maleficent curses her when she is only a baby, Aurora is taken to the woods by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, where her name is changed to Briar Rose to conceal her identity from Maleficent. Aurora is the third official Disney Princess.
Later in the story, the three good fairies are preparing for her birthday when they plan to surprise her with the news that she is a princess. But when Princess Aurora renamed Briar Rose returns with the news of meeting a handsome and enchanting man, the fairies must tell her she can never see him again; like Aurora, they do not know who he really is. The three fairies tell her about the future that is set for her and that night they take her back to the castle. Aurora is saddened that she will never see the man from the forest and breaks into tears. The three fairies exit the room they secretly entered so as to let the princess have a few moments alone. Aurora suddenly sees a floating spark of light cast by Maleficent and, in a trance, follows the spark through the back of the fireplace and up a staircase to an abandoned empty room to a spinning wheel that was conjured up. The three good fairies try to stop her, but Aurora touches the spindle and falls to the floor, unconscious. She is put in a bed by the fairies where she can sleep peacefully within the highest tower.
Aurora was later awakened by Prince Phillip's kiss of true love, which finally broke the curse. She also learned that her love and her betrothed were exactly the same person. During the movie's final scenes, Aurora and Phillip dance.
Maleficent is the main antagonist of the film. She is characterized as the "Mistress of All Evil" who, after not being invited to a christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. Merryweather was able to weaken the curse though by changing it from death into sleep.
The night when Aurora returned to her father's castle, the moment Aurora was alone, she seized the chance to lure her into touching a spindle of a spinning wheel. Despite the efforts of the three good fairies, she succeeded in fulfilling her curse. She then proceeded to trap Prince Phillip and lock him in her dungeon. However, the three good fairies free Phillip after she left him. Upon learning of this from her pet raven, who got turned to stone in the process by Merryweather, she tried to stop him with a series of lightning bolts, but failed. She went as far as conjuring a forest of thorns, but Phillip easily cut his way to the gate. With no other choice, she flew to the gate of King Stefan's castle and turned into a huge dragon to battle the prince herself. Despite pushing Phillip to the edge of a cliff, Phillip threw his Sword of Truth, which was blessed by the three good fairies' magic, and struck Maleficent directly in the heart, and it was more than enough to kill her. All that was left of her was a black and purple mess on the ground, with the sword still embedded in it as it blackens.
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