| Character | Actor | Notable Notes | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Angelina Jolie | Jolie’s cheekbones required daily prosthetics; her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, played young Aurora. | | Princess Aurora | Elle Fanning | Fanning brought a naive warmth that perfectly contrasted Jolie’s icy exterior. | | King Stefan | Sharlto Copley | Known for District 9 , Copley portrays Stefan’s descent into paranoia and madness. | | Diaval (The Raven) | Sam Riley | Diaval is Maleficent’s loyal raven-turned-human servant. His arc is completed in the sequel. | | Prince Phillip | Brenton Thwaites | A charming but ultimately subverted "prince charming." | | Flittle, Knotgrass, Thistlewit | Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, Lesley Manville | The bumbling pixies provide comic relief and inadvertently raise Aurora poorly. |
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