Noelle Kringle

Noelle Kringle is the daughter and youngest child of Kris and Mrs. Kringle, the younger sister of Nick, the cousin of Gabriel and the main protagonist of the 2019 Disney+ film Noelle.

She is portrayed by Anna Kendrick (who also voiced Princess Poppy).

Role in the film
Noelle is the daughter of Kris Kringle, who serves as Santa Claus who would return to celebrate with his family after completing his Christmas Eve deliveries. It is said that Noelle's older brother Nick would one day replace Kris as Santa.

Some years later, Kris passes away five months before Christmas and Nick is made the new Santa. Noelle helps Nick prepare for Christmas Eve. As Nick struggles with practicing, Noelle suggests that he should take a weekend break before Christmas. Nick takes his sleigh to go on a break. However a week later, the reindeer return with the sleigh but without Nick. Noelle earns the ire of the elves for "ruining Christmas" by suggesting to Nick to go on a break. With Nick gone, Gabriel, Noelle and Nick's cousin is made Santa.

Noelle discovers that Nick had read her magazines and guesses that he has gone to Phoenix in Arizona. Noelle uses the sleigh to go to Phoenix, with her childhood elf nanny Polly coming along unintentionally. They arrive at a mall and are nearly evicted by the mall's manager Helen, but the customers and a Petco employee named Dan (whom Helen has feelings for) appreciate the reindeer. Continuing her search for Nick, Noelle finds an ad for a private investor named Jake Hapman and enlists him to help her find Nick. Noelle later meets Jake's son Alex, who wishes to cook and to spend Christmas with his whole family. Noelle tells him that if he is nice, he will get his wish. After encountering a deaf girl, Noelle discovers that she can decipher who is naughty or nice and can pick up any language and sign language.

Noelle eventually finds Nick and discovers that he is working in a yoga studio. The two then get into an argument about being Santa. Noelle storms out of the yoga studio and meets with her favourite reindeer Snowcone, who has a letter for Noelle from her mother Mrs Kringle. The letter is about Gabriel using statistics for gift giving and planning to give all naughty children a notice telling them to do better next year. With Nick refusing to talk to her, Noelle leaves him their mother's letter.