Aurora (Disney)

## Background Information

### Live Action

Sarah Bolger (Once Upon a Time)Elle Fanning (Maleficent films)Eleanor Worthington Cox (8 years old; Maleficent)Vivienne Jolie-Pitt (5 years old; Maleficent)

### Voice

Mary Costa (original film)
Erin Torpey (speaking voice in *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales*)
Cassidy Ladden (singing voice in *Disney Princess Enchanted Tales*)
Jennifer Hale (2001-2005, 2007-2010)
Kate Higgins (2010–present)
Janet McTeer (in *Maleficent* as the narrator)

**Princess Aurora** (also known as **Briar Rose**, is the titular deuteragonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film *Sleeping Beauty￼*.

Cursed by the evil Maleficent to die on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora was hidden away after her birth and raised by the three Good Fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather.

## Background

### Personality

Aurora grew up to be kind, caring, and sweet due to being raised in a happy environment with Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, who have been posing as Aurora's aunts.

## *Sleeping Beauty*

Aurora was born to King Stefan and Queen Leah and named after the dawn. On the day of Aurora's christening, the three good fairies, Flora, Fauna Merryweather each came to gift her: Flora gifted her with beauty and Fauna with a beautiful voice. Before Merryweather could give hers, the evil fairy Maleficent interrupted the celebration. Upset at not getting an invitiation, Maleficent cursed Aurora to prick her finger on the spindle of the spinning wheel and die before disappearing.
Knowing she cannot break the curse off Aurora, Merryweather can alter it. The fairy makes it so that instead of death, Aurora will only be placed in a deep slumber and that only true love's kiss can break it. In fear for his daughter's safety and the curse, Stefan has every spindle in the kingdom destroyed. However, the fairies know it would not be enough and proposed to raise Aurora for sixteen years.
For the next sixteen years, Aurora had lived unaware of her identity as a Princess, under the name of Briar Rose, and grew up to be a beautiful young woman.

## Trivia

* She is the third and final princess created by Walt Disney
* Aurora's current voice actress, Kate Higgins, also voices Briar Beauty.

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**Animated Series:** Kim Possible • Penny Proud • Candace Flynn • Isabella Garcia-Shapiro •  Vanessa Doofenshmirtz  • Trixie Carter • Haley Long • Rose
**Live-Action TV:** Alex Russo • Ally Dawson • Amy Duncan • Avery Jennings • Bailey Pickett • Charlie Duncan • London Tipton • Maddie Fitzpatrick • Miley Stewart • Teddy Duncan • Chloe James • Chyna Parks • Ellen Jennings • Jessie Prescott • Lexi Reed • Lilly Truscott • Olive Doyle • Paisley Houndstooth • Riley Matthews • Trisha De la Rosa • Anna Maria Verdugo

**Muppets:** Miss Piggy • Camilla • Janice
**Lucasfilm:** Marianne • Sorsha • Elora Danan
**20th Fox Century:** Anastasia Romanov • Thumbelina
**x-Men Cinematic Universe:** Jean Grey