american actress linda larkin did the voice of princess jasmine in aladdin.
american actress linda larkin did the voice of princess jasmine in aladdin.
who does the voice of princess jasmine in aladdin?
american actress linda larkin
princess jasmine is a fictional character who appears in walt disney pictures' 31st animated feature film "aladdin" (1992). voiced by american actress linda larkin – with a singing voice provided by filipina singer lea salonga – jasmine is the spirited princess of agrabah, who has grown weary of her life of palace confinement. despite an age-old law stipulating that the princess must marry a prince in time for her upcoming birthday, jasmine is instead determined to marry someone she loves for who he is as opposed to what he owns. created by directors ron clements and john musker with screenwriters ted elliott and terry rossio, jasmine is based on badroulbadour, a princess who appears in the "one thousand and one nights" folktale "aladdin and the magical lamp".
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jasmine debuted in "aladdin" (1992) as the princess of agrabah, daughter of the sultan. frustrated with constantly having decisions made for her and being pressured into marrying a prince by law, jasmine disguises herself as a peasant and escapes the palace. in the nearby marketplace, jasmine befriends street thief aladdin after he rescues her from an angry vendor who very nearly chops her hand off. escaping to aladdin's hideout, the pair bonds over the realization that they both feel trapped in their own environments and long for better lives. when aladdin is soon arrested by the palace guards, jasmine demands his immediate release only to find her orders overruled by jafar, the sultan's scheming grand vizier. when the princess confronts jafar, he lies and tells her that aladdin has already been executed, leaving jasmine distraught and blaming herself for his death; in reality, jafar is using aladdin to retrieve a magical lamp containing a genie. when the genie, who saves and befriends aladdin, grants his wish to be transformed into a prince to better his chances of wooing jasmine, aladdin introduces himself to her as "prince ali". although initially unimpressed, jasmine is charmed after joining him on a magic carpet ride, at the end of which she discovers that the prince is, in fact, the same peasant she met in the marketplace. however, aladdin convinces jasmine that he truly is a prince who, much like her, only occasionally disguises himself as a commoner. when jafar learns the truth about aladdin, he steals the lamp and becomes the genie's master, banishing aladdin and forcing the genie to make him sultan, while enslaving both jasmine and her father. after refusing to marry him, jasmine kisses jafar to distract him while aladdin returns in time to trick jafar into wishing himself into a genie and thus trapping himself within the lamp. jasmine and the sultan are finally freed, and she and aladdin become engaged after the sultan abolishes the law so that jasmine can legally marry whomever she chooses.
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