
The character was animated by Marc Davis.
2.4.2 Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy. This version of Maleficent is portrayed as a sympathetic character, who is misunderstood in trying to protect herself and her domain from humans. However, Audley's vocal performance was praised.Ī 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. When Sleeping Beauty was released in 1959, the film was both a critical and a commercial failure, discouraging the studio from adapting fairy tales into animated films for three decades. She is voiced by Eleanor Audley, who earlier voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's evil stepmother, in Cinderella (1950). Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers Grimm's retelling of the story, Little Briar Rose.
She 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. Maleficent ( / m ə ˈ l ɛ f ɪ s ən t/ or / m ə ˈ l ɪ f ɪ s ən t/) is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Productions' 16th animated feature film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). The evil fairy from Charles Perrault's fairy tale