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| Anna | |
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| Frozen character | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Anna_Frozen.png) Anna as she appears in Frozen (2013). | |
| First appearance | Frozen (2013) |
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| Voiced by |
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| Portrayed by | Patti Murin (Broadway musical) Elizabeth Lail (Once Upon a Time) |
| Inspired by | Gerda from the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale |
| In-universe information | |
| Title | Queen of Arendelle (after Elsa's abdication) Princess of Arendelle (at birth) |
| Family | |
| Spouse | Kristoff (fiancé) |
| Nationality | Kingdom of Arendelle |
| Age | 5 to 21 years[5] |
| Birth date | Summer Solstice (June 20–22)[6] |
Anna of Arendelle (/ˈɑːnə/) is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated fantasy film Frozen (2013) and its sequel Frozen II (2019). She is voiced by Kristen Bell as an adult. At the beginning of the film, Livvy Stubenrauch and Katie Lopez provide her speaking and singing voice as a young child, respectively. Agatha Lee Monn portrayed her as a nine-year-old (singing). In Frozen II, Hadley Gannaway provided her voice as a young child while Stubenrauch is the archive audio.
Created by co-writers and directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, Anna is loosely based on Gerda, a character from the Danish fairytale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film adaptation, Anna is depicted as the princess of Arendelle, a fictional Scandinavian kingdom, and the younger sister of Elsa (Idina Menzel), who is the heiress to the throne and possesses the elemental ability to create and control ice and snow. When Elsa exiles herself from the kingdom after inadvertently sending Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation, Anna goes on a dangerous adventure and brings her sister back.
The original fairytale in general and the character of the Snow Queen in particular posed long-term problems to adapt into a feature-length production. Several film executives, including Walt Disney, made their attempts towards the story and numerous adaptations were shelved as the filmmakers could not work out the characters. Finally, directors Buck and Lee solved the issue by portraying Anna and Elsa as sisters, establishing a dynamic relationship between the characters.
Film critics praised Anna's determination and enthusiasm in her personality and Bell for her performance in the films.
- ^ Lee, Jennifer (September 23, 2013a). "Frozen's Final Shooting Draft" (PDF). Walt Disney Animation Studios. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ^ "Frozen II Press Kit" (PDF). Disney Enterprises, Inc. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 15, 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- ^ Angeline Jane Bernabe (September 23, 2019). "New 'Frozen 2' trailer: Anna and Elsa embark on journey into the enchanted forest". Good Morning America. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ a b Anna & Elsa's Childhood Times, page 4. Look Games. July 27, 2017. Archived from the original on June 28, 2020. Retrieved June 19, 2018 – via YouTube.
- ^ Lee 2013a, pp. 2, 16.
- ^ @alittlejelee (September 3, 2014). "@MarianaDeLama For all who've asked, here's an exclusive: Elsa was born on the Winter Solstice & Anna on the Summer Solstice. #AskFrozen" (Tweet) – via Twitter.