Maleficent
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Maleficent (/məˈlɛfɪsənt/ or /məˈlɪfɪsənt/) is a fictional character who first appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). Maleficent is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty,[3] as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, Little Briar Rose. Maleficent was originally animated by Marc Davis.
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Sleeping Beauty character | |
First appearance | Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
First game | Kingdom Hearts (2002) |
Created by | Marc Davis Eric Cleworth |
Based on | The evil fairy from Charles Perrault's fairy tale |
Designed by | Marc Davis Eyvind Earle |
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Alias | The Mistress of all Evil |
Species | Fairy[2] |
Gender | Female |
Title | Queen of the Moors (in Maleficent) |
Affiliation | Disney Villains |
Significant others | Hades (in House of Mouse and Descendants) |
Children | Mal (daughter; in Descendants) Aurora (adoptive daughter; in Maleficent) |
Home | The Forbidden Mountains The Moors (in Maleficent) |
In the 1959 film, Maleficent was originally voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950).[4] Maleficent is represented as an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed "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.[5]
A revision of the character appeared as the protagonist in the 2014 live-action film Maleficent, portrayed by Angelina Jolie, who reprised the role in the 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.[6] This version of Maleficent is portrayed as a sympathetic character, who is misunderstood in trying to protect herself and her domain from humans.