Evil Queen Disney Wikipedia. Evil Queen. First appearance. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1. Created by. Walt Disney and Joe Grant designArt Babbit animationBrothers Grimm original fairy talePortrayed by. Anne Francine musicalJane Curtin 5. TV specialVarious Disneys World on IceKathy Najimy DescendantsVoiced by. Lucille La Verne original filmEleanor Audley 1. June Foray Disney on ParadeJanet Waldo 1. Eda Reiss Merin 1. Louise Chamis 1. Susanne Blakeslee 2. Information. Aliases. Evil Queen, Wicked Queen, Queen Grimhilde, Witch, Wicked Witch, Old Witch, Witch Queen, Queen witch,2 Old Hag, Snow Whites stepmother3Occupation. Sorceresswitch. Queen dowagerregnant. SpousesThe King deceasedChildren. Snow White stepdaughterEvie daughter in Descendants onlyNationality. Bavarian. The Evil Queen, also known as the Wicked Queen or just the Queen, and sometimes instead identified by her given name as Queen Grimhilde, is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1. Disneys Snow White franchise. She is based on the Evil Queen character from the European fairy tale Snow White. An alliance of evildoers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes. Replicants, superheros, and reboots await you in our Fall Movie Guide. Plan your season and take note of the hotly anticipated indie, foreign, and documentary. Happily N`Ever After 2: Snow White Movie Full Hd' title='Happily N`Ever After 2: Snow White Movie Full Hd' />In the film, similar to the Brothers Grimm story, the Evil Queen is cold, cruel, and extremely vain, and obsessively desires to remain the fairest in the land. She becomes madly envious over the beauty of her stepdaughter, Princess Snow White, as well as the attentions of the Prince from another land such love triangle element is one of Disneys changes to the story. This leads her to plot the death of Snow White and ultimately on the path to her own demise, which in the film is indirectly caused by the Seven Dwarfs. The films version of the Queen character uses her dark magic powers to actually transform herself into an old woman instead of just taking a disguise like in the Grimms story this appearance of hers is commonly referred to as the Wicked Witch or alternatively as the Old Hag or just the Witch. The Queen dies in the film, but lives on in a variety of non canonical Disney works. The films version of the Queen was created by Walt Disney and Joe Grant, and originally animated by Art Babbit and voiced by Lucille La Verne. Inspiration for her design came from the characters of Queen Hash a Motep from She and Princess Kriemhild from Die Nibelungen. The Queen has since been voiced by Eleanor Audley, June Foray, Janet Waldo, Eda Reiss Merin, Louise Chamis and Susanne Blakeslee, and was portrayed live by Anne Francine musical, Jane Curtin 5. TV special, Olivia Wilde Disney Dream Portraits, and Kathy Najimy Descendants. This version of the classic fairy tale character has been very well received by film critics and the public, and is considered one of Disneys most iconic and menacing villains. Besides in the film, the Evil Queen has made numerous appearances in Disney attractions and productions, including not only these directly related to the tale of Snow White, such as Fantasmic, The Kingdom Keepers and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, sometimes appearing in them alongside Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. The films version of the Queen has also become a popular archetype that influenced a number of artists and non Disney works. In Snow White and the Seven DwarfseditStorylineeditIn another land, far away,4 many, many years ago, about the time of fairy tales of castles, knights, fair maidens, romance, magic and witches,5 a mysterious and icily beautiful woman with magical powers a 1. Harz mountains6 has gained her royal position by seducing and marrying the widowed King, giving her rule over his kingdom before he died. From that time on the cruel Queen ruled all alone, her every word was law, and all trembled in mortal fear of her anger. The vain Queen owned a magical mirror with which she could look upon whatever she wished. Download Astro Boy Online. The Magic Mirror shows a haunted, smokey face of her familiar demon6 which replies to the Queens requests. She regularly asks the mirror who is the fairest in the realm Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all which is often misquoted as Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all89, and the mirror would always reply that she is. One day, however, the mirror tells her that there is a new fairest woman in the land, her 1. Princess Snow White. She became obsessively jealous of the princess emerging beauty, therefore turning her into a scullery maid in her own home. After observing the handsome Prince from another kingdom singing a love song to Snow White, the proud Queen, in a jealous rage, commands her faithful Huntsman, Humbert, to take the princess deep into the forest and kill her. He is ordered to bring back her heart in a box to prove that he had done so. But Humbert cannot bear to kill the young princess upon realizing that she is impervious to harm, so he tells Snow White of the Queens plot and tells her to run away and never to come back. To escape the penalty, he comes back with a pigs heart and gives it to the Queen. When she questions her mirror, it again replies that Snow White is the fairest in the land, and that she is living at the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs, revealing that the box contains the heart of a pig. The Dwarfs are fearful of the Queens black magic but decide to take in Snow White anyway. Furious that Humbert tricked her, the Queen decides that first Snow White shall die by her own hand and at any cost. She goes down the dungeon to her secret room where she practices her dark magic, complete with a pet raven that knows all her secrets,1. Her beauty is shrouded in ugliness and age, though presumably reversible. She then conjures a poison apple, which will cause the Sleeping Death,1. She is sure that no one would know or perform the counter curse to her spell, and believes the Dwarfs would bury her rival alive, thinking her dead. The Queen comes to the cottage, followed by two vicious vultures, and finds Snow White baking a pie for Grumpy the dwarf. Somehow Snow Whites animal friends realize that the old hag is the Queen. After an unsuccessful attempt to warn Snow White by attacking the Queen, they go to warn the Dwarfs of the Queens arrival. The Queen tricks the princess into letting her inside the cottage and eating the bewitched apple, telling her that it is a magic wishing apple. Snow White takes a bite and falls to the floor, apparently dead. The Queen rejoices in her victory, but is soon discovered by the angry Seven Dwarfs, who grab pickaxes and chase her deep into the forest as a great storm begins. She climbs up into the mountains, where she gets trapped upon a precipice that overlooks a seemingly bottomless canyon. She tries to push down a large boulder to crush the approaching Dwarfs. Before she can do so, a lightning bolt strikes between her and the boulder, destroying the precipice and sending the Queen along with the boulder down the cliff to her death, screaming while she falls to the jagged rocks below this scream was reused in Sleeping Beauty when Maleficent is stabbed in the heart by the Sword of Truth. As the Dwarfs look wide eyed over the cliffs edge, they cannot see her, but the vultures descend into the chasm. The Queens dark reign is over, and her castle is then taken over and the revived Snow White and the Prince who broke the spell. A 1. 93. 6 pre release Good Housekeeping novelization by Dorothy Ann Blank, a member of the films story team, affirms that the Queen in fact dies Far below, in a chasm as dark as her own wicked soul, lay the body of the hateful Queen. No magic would ever bring her to life again. Conception, design and portrayaleditEarly concepts for the film called for a fat, batty, cartoon type, self satisfied Queen. However, Walt Disney became concerned that such an approach would make the character seem less plausible.