

She inadvertently sends Arendelle into an eternal winter on the evening of her coronation. Elsa has the magical ability to create and manipulate ice and snow. In the Disney film adaptation, she is introduced as a princess in the fictional Scandinavian Kingdom of Arendelle, heiress to the throne and the elder sister of Anna ( Kristen Bell). In Frozen II, young Elsa is voiced by Mattea Conforti (at the start of the film) and Eva Bella (archive audio).Ĭreated by co-writers and directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Elsa is loosely based on the title character of " The Snow Queen", a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. She is voiced mainly by Broadway actress and singer Idina Menzel, with Eva Bella as a young child and by Spencer Ganus as a teenager in Frozen.

Elsa of Arendelle is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 53rd animated film Frozen (2013) and its sequel and 58th animated film Frozen II (2019).
