Dolores Madrigal

Dolores gift is enhanced hearing

### Relatives

Félix Madrigal (father)Pepa Madrigal (mother)Camilo Madrigal (younger brother)Antonio Madrigal (youngest brother)Pedro Madrigal † (maternal grandfather)Alma Madrigal (maternal grandmother)Bruno Madrigal (maternal uncle)Julieta Madrigal (maternal aunt)Agustín Madrigal (uncle by marriage)Isabela Madrigal (maternal cousin)Luisa Madrigal (maternal cousin)Mirabel Madrigal (maternal cousin)

## Appearances

### Debut

Encanto

**Dolores Madrigal** is a supporting character who appears in Disney's 2021 animated feature film, *Encanto*. The eldest child and only daughter of Pepa and Félix Madrigal, she was gifted with enhanced hearing.

> My cousin Dolores can hear this all chorus a mile away!
>
> Mirabel (The family Madrigal song), Encanto

## Background

Dolores is Mirabel's oldest cousin, oldest child of Félix and Pepa, and eldest sister of Camilo and Antonio. She "knows everyone's dirt" via enhanced hearing, but she is always quiet and does not appear to be much of a gossip. It was revealed that she always had a crush on her cousin Isabela's fiancée, Mariano, but Isa never wanted to marry him in the first place. During "All of You", Dolores, with Mirabel's help, finally confesses her true feelings for him, which he corresponds, much to Mirabel and Isabela's joy. She also confesses that she was aware of Bruno still living in the Casita as she heard him every day.

### Official Description

*Dolores is the daughter of Pepa and Félix, and although she may be quiet, she has inside information on everyone in the family.*

Adassa, Dolores' voice actor, describes her character: *“I absolutely love the character. I think that Charise Castro Smith, and Byron Howard, and Jared Bush did an amazing job writing this character, because she has all the secrets, she can hear everything. But sometimes, you know, her well-placed heart is a little bit out of order when she kind of speaks up and she can’t help it."*

### Personality

Described as "a little bit quiet", Dolores while not entirely stoic, is the least emotional of the family. She speaks or sings as low as a whisper and unlike her outgoing younger brother Camilo and their energetic parents, Dolores does not enjoy being the center of attention and prefers to stay in the background. Due to the nature of her gift, Dolores has a tendency to expose people's secrets even if she does not want to, such as when she blurted out to the village kids that her cousin, Mirabel, did not have a magical gift. Despite her nature of exposing secrets, she never told anyone that Bruno still lived in the walls due to the fear others had of him and his powers.

Although generally calm and stoic, Dolores can have rare moments of stress and weakness. Her gift causes her incredible discomfort and suffering, causing her to cover her ears when they are too loud for her. Her powers also gives her a reputation as a busybody and forces her to keep others' secrets constantly. After discovering Bruno's vision about the fall of Casa Madrigal and the death of magic, she was so scared that during the dinner of proposal she told her brother as soon as she could, causing a chain of gossip that eventually led to everyone knowing what she knew. Her stress reached such a degree that she even shouted during dinner that the family was doomed.

Dolores also tends to be rather quiet and does not express her thoughts and feelings often. Because Bruno told her that the man of her dreams will be engaged to someone else when she was just a girl, Dolores could never confess her love for Mariano Guzmán believing that he could never be by her side and lost hope. Dolores tried to hide her feelings to the point that during "We Don't Talk About Bruno" she has to constantly tell herself that she is okay with Isabela and Mariano's engagement, even though she was clearly suffering. However, thanks to the fact that the family was able to reunite during the reconstruction of Casa Madrigal, in "All of You" she was able to confess her feelings to Mariano and begin a relationship with him. Dolores was overjoyed, happy she was no longer able to keep her opinions and emotions to herself (much to the joy of her cousins).

She shares a close relationship with her family and can become protective of them. She loves her grandmother and treats her gently when the house collapses. Dolores is mostly seen around her younger siblings. She smiled proudly at Antonio before his gift ceremony began and although she shares a typical sibling relationship with Camilo, she doesn't actually seem too bothered by her brother's antics compared to Isabela. Camilo is the first person she trusts with the truth of Bruno's vision and when the house begins to crumble, Dolores instinctively puts her arm around Camilo protectively, although she can't stop him from trying to save the Miracle Candle.

Even when Bruno gave her a vision that caused her insecurities since she was a child, she never had a negative opinion of her uncle. When singing about him, she seems genuinely sympathetic about his powers compared to much of the family. Although she is a few months younger than Isabela, she did not show any jealousy towards Isabela for being their family's golden child, unlike Mirabel. At Antonio's gift ceremony, Dolores was lovingly embracing Isabela and never treated her badly because of her commitment to Mariano (the boy she was in love with), showing her closeness, despite giving Isabela a snooty side-glance after Mariano wanted to have children with her. Dolores was even willing to lend Mirabel a helping hand in investigating the cause of the magic dying. After the magic had died, causing Mirabel to run away, she was concerned for her cousin and helped look for her.

### Physical appearance

Dolores is a 21-year-oldColombian young lady with curly brown hair and brown eyes. She wears a white and yellow shirt with golden-colored trimming on it, a long red skirt with yellow streaks, a red choker with a golden gem adorned with a ruby on the middle of it, and heart-shaped golden earrings, and red sandals. She also wears a big red bow on her hair, which she wears in a bun. Symbolizing her super hearing, Dolores' clothes have many sound waves on her shirt, skirt, and bow.

### Powers and abilities

Dolores has enhanced hearing; her ears are strong enough to hear even the quietest noise, such as the sound of a pin dropping, and even the sound of someone's eye twitching. Her hearing also works over great distances, she is able to receive messages from people all the way in town from Casa Madrigal, as seen when she reported Mariano's family coming for dinner. However, her gift's one drawback is that she apparently doesn't do well in noisy environments, as she was seen holding her hands over her ears as everyone else cheered for Antonio.

## Likes

Her family, Mariano, knowing everyone's business, telling secrets, dance parties, romance, poetry

## Dislikes

Danger, Mariano's betrothal to Isabela, keeping secrets, Camilo impersonating her or eating her food, loud noises, being the center of attention