Maleficent (Disney)
| Maleficent | |
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Maleficent as she appears in Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
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| First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
| Created by |
Marc Davis Charles Perrault The Brothers Grimm |
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| Information | |
| Aliases | Mistress of All Evil Queen of Darkness (in Once Upon a Time only) Mistress of the Universe (in Descendants only) |
| Species |
Fairy Dragon (second form) Human (in Once Upon a Time only) |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation |
Sorceress/witch Fairy godmother Protector of the Moors (in Maleficent only) Queen of the Moors (abdicated; in Maleficent only) |
| Children |
Princess Aurora (goddaughter) Lilith "Lily" Page (daughter; in Once Upon a Time only) Mal (daughter; in Descendants only) |
Maleficent (/məˈlɛfɪsənt/ or /məˈlɪfɪsənt/) is the main villain of Walt Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. 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 Aurora's sixteenth birthday. She was voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950). Maleficent was created by Marc Davis and is based on the evil fairy godmother from the original fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm.
A more sympathetic version of the character appeared as the protagonist in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, portrayed by Angelina Jolie. She also serves as a minor antagonist in Disney's House of Mouse, voiced by Lois Nettleton, and as a recurring antagonist in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, voiced by Susanne Blakeslee. She is also one of several antagonists in the TV series Once Upon a Time, portrayed by Kristin Bauer van Straten, and the Disney Channel movie Descendants, portrayed by Kristin Chenoweth.
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