Queen Elsa of
Arendelle is a fictional character who
appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 53rd animated film Frozen. She is voiced primarily
by Broadway actress and singer Idina Menzel. At the beginning of
the film, she is voiced by Eva Bella as a young child and by Spencer
Lacey Ganus as a teenager.
Created by directors Chris Buck and Jennifer
Lee, Elsa is loosely based on the title character of "The Snow Queen",
a Danish fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Disney film
adaptation, she is introduced as the princess of the fictional Scandinavian
kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Princess
Anna (Kristen Bell). Elsa has the magical ability to create and manipulate
ice and snow. She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter on the
evening of her coronation. Throughout the film, she struggles first with
controlling and concealing her abilities and then with liberating herself from
her fears of unintentionally harming others, especially her younger sister.
