Belle (Once Upon a Time)

Belle appears in the live action fantasy-drama series Once Upon a Time where the "Beast" she lives with is Rumplestiltkin. She goes to serve Rumplestiltskin in order for him to save her father's land from ogres and over the time she stays there she develops feelings for him which he appears to return. One day Rumplestiltskin sends Belle out to fetch straw for him though he expects never to see her again, along the way collecting the straw she meets The Evil Queen Regina who guesses that she has feelings for Rumplestiltskin and convinces her to give him True Love's kiss which will break his curse. When she returns to Rumplestiltskin's castle she gives him True Love's kiss and his curse starts to fade but it returns when he hears Belle saying True Love's kiss can break any curse and demands to know where she heard it and discovers that Regina was responsible and believes that Belle doesn't really love him and wanted to kill him to be the hero and throws her in a dungeon. Later he tells her to leave and that his power means more to him than her but she believes not and says he will regret it. Sometime later Regina arrives at the castle and tells Rumplestiltskin that when Belle returned to her home, her father lock her up and had her exorcised until she couldn't take it anymore and killed herself deeply saddening Rumplestiltskin. However when in The Land Without Magic this was later revealed to be a lie and Belle was still alive and was captured and imprisoned by Regina and put in the psychiatric ward of Storybrooke's hospital and has no fairytale memories. In the Season One finale, Jefferson the Mad Hatter freed her and sent her off to find Mr. Gold (Rumplestiltskin's real world counterpart) and tell him Regina locked her up which she does. When she meets Gold they go to Storybrooke's woods where Belle regains her memories and witnesses Gold pour True Love potion into the well in order to bring magic to Storybrooke.

At the end of Season 3, Belle and Mr. Gold get married in a small ceremony attended by Belle's father Moe French and Archie Hopper.

She is played by Australian actress Emilie de Ravin.