Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Belle (Beauty and the Beast) Belle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Originally voiced by American actress and singer Paige O'Hara, Belle is the non-conforming daughter of an inventor who yearns to abandon her predictable village life in return for adventure. When her father Maurice is imprisoned by a cold-hearted beast, Belle offers him her own freedom in exchange for her father's, and eventually learns to love the Beast despite his unsightly outward appearance. Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg commissioned "Beauty and the Beast" as an animated
Beauty and the Beast going back to the castle. Beauty's heart is moved by her family's overprotection, and she reluctantly agrees to stay. Beauty begins to feel guilty about trying to break her promise to the Beast and uses the mirror to see him back at the castle. She is horrified to discover that the Beast is lying dead near the rose bushes from which her father plucked the rose, and she immediately steals the ring back from her father, and uses it to return to the Beast. Once she returns to the castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed that the Beast was found murdered