Paige O'Hara
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Paige O'Hara (born Donna Paige Helmintoller, 1956) is an American actress, voice actor, guitarist, and painter.
When O'Hara played Ellie May Chipley in the musical Showboat in 1983, she began her career as a Broadway actress.
In 1991, she made her motion picture debut in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, in which she played Belle, the film's heroine.
O'Hara reprised her role as Belle in the film's two direct-to-video sequels, Beauty and the Beast (1997) and Belle's Magical World (1998), as well as a cameo appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
Early life
O'Hara was born May 10, 1956 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and attended Nova High School in Davie, Florida, and Parkway Middle School of The Arts, also in Florida. She appeared in revues with the Fort Lauderdale Children's Theatre.
Her mother is of Irish descent, and her father was born in Ireland to a family of Irish, British, Dutch, and German origins.
O'Hara began acting at the age of four by attending acting classes in her home state, Florida. She didn't know she was interested in singing and enrolled in a performing arts high school until she was 12 years old. O'Hara cites American actress and singer Judy Garland as one of her idols.
Personal life
In 1989, O'Hara met actor Michael Piontek. They married in 1995 after six years of dating.
O'Hara's religious history is Catholic.
Career
In 1983, O'Hara appeared in her first Broadway appearance as Ellie May Chipley in the revival of Showboat, starring Donald O'Connor. She reprised her role in the 1989 Houston Grand Opera's production and stayed with them when the show was relocated to Egypt's Cairo Opera House. She's also performed on the 1989 Grammy-nominated recording of the musical with Jerry Hadley, Frederica von Stade, and Teresa Stratas, performed by John McGlinn on the Angel EMI label, continuing her Ellie's legacy as Ellie. Edwin Drood (Broadway and national tour) and Ado Annie in a national tour of Oklahoma are among her other American stage credits. William Hammerstein's film "Woman Hammerstein" was directed. She appeared in Les Misérables on Broadway in 1995, where she appeared as Fantine.
O'Hara has appeared in Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (Australia).
Judy Garland appeared in JUDY, the Musical at the Tempe Center for the Performing Arts in Tempe, Arizona, in April 2011.
After reading about the film in The New York Times, O'Hara auditioned for Beauty and the Beast at the age of 35.
O'Hara appeared on "The Legend of Prince Valiant" in Season 2 (which starred her Beauty and the Beast co-star Robby Benson), as Princess Aleta (who was later promoted to queen). Prince Valiant, Benson's love interest, fell in love with Aleta at first sight.
In the BBC's live broadcast of Kurt Weill's "One Touch of Venus" and in honour of her Belle character from Beauty and the Beast, O'Hara portrayed Angela, a character in Disney's 2007 live action/traditional 2-D animated film Enchanted.
On August 19, 2011, O'Hara was honoured with a Disney Legend Award for her work as Belle.
O'Hara was replaced by Julie Nathanson as the voice of Belle in 2011 due to her voice's evolution over the course of 20 years. Despite this, she still paints Belle for Disney Fine Art and also does promotional appearances for Disney. In 2016, O'Hara appeared at numerous special screenings of Beauty and the Beast to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary. In the 2018 film Ralph Breaks the Internet, O'Hara reprised her role as Belle.