NOTE: This article is about Snow White from the 2025 live-action remake. For the original version from the 1937 animated film, click here,
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This is exactly how the Queen would want us to behave! Fighting with each other. Distrusting each other. This is how she wins! She poisoned everyone into believing that it's everyone for themselves. But if.. we can give up our meager scraps, we will inherit what was meant for all of us. It's more than any of us can imagine. It just... requires faith in each other.
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~ Snow White stopping the Seven Dwarfs and the bandits from arguing, also one of her famous quotes.
Snow White is the titular main protagonist of the 2025 Disney musical fantasy film of the same name, a live-action remake of the 1937 traditionally animated classic film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. She is a young princess whose beauty is defined by her inherent kindness and fairness, earning her title as the "Fairest One of All".
Shortly after saving a rouge bandit named Jonathan, Snow White is forced to leave her kingdom after finding out that her stepmother, the Evil Queen, wants to kill her just to remain being the fairest. Joining forces with the Seven Dwarfs and slowly falling in love with Jonathan, she becomes determined to free her kingdom from the Queen's tyranny once and for all.
She is portrayed by Rachel Zegler, who also portrayed María Vasquez in the 2021 film adaptation of West Side Story, Anthea in the DC Extended Universe, Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and voiced Princess Ellian in Spellbound.
Snow White is portrayed as a more modern and empowered character. Unlike her animated counterpart who primarily waits for others to rescue her, Snow White is more independent. She is actively involved in her own story, taking initiative to shape her fate rather than passively awaiting intervention. Snow White doesn’t simply rely on anyone's help; she takes matters into her own hands and faces challenges head-on.
Like her animated counterpart, Snow White remains her innate kindness. She is shown as deeply compassionate, caring for both her animal friends and the people she encounters. However, her kindness isn’t just about being sweet, but also about genuinely understanding others and offering support when they need it. This empathy extends to her relationships with the Seven Dwarfs, as she learns to appreciate their strengths and individuality.
Snow White is depicted as a young woman with a strong moral compass, motivated by a sense of justice. She is willing to stand up to her tyrannical stepmother, who has wronged her and others. Snow White doesn’t shy away from confrontation but instead seeks to right the wrongs around her. This transformation makes her an assertive leader who is unafraid to challenge her foes.
As part of her journey continues, Snow White undergoes personal growth that empowers her to take on a leadership role. She’s depicted as a leader who inspires those around her. Rather than being defined solely by her beauty or innocence, Snow White’s leadership qualities become central to her character arc. Her growth is marked by learning how to lead her people and stand up for what is right.
Physical appearance[]
Snow White has shoulder-length black hair and sometimes wears a red bow on top. She wears a knee length blue and yellow dress, based on her animated counterpart, but instead of having bare arms, she wears long blue sleeves. She also wears white stockings, ballet-like red shoes and a silver heart locket.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Snow White was born in an unnamed kingdom to her parents, the Good King and the Good Queen, during a snowstorm. As she grew up, she was raised by her parents to believe that the riches of their kingdom belonged to those who worked it and that leadership came from kindness and fairness. The King and Queen brought Snow White to a well and showed her her own reflection to tell her that everything in life should be done with fairness and courage in their land, and that she would be a great ruler one day.
Unfortunately, when Snow White was still a child, the Good Queen fell ill and passed away. She and her father were left heartbroken by her mother's death until sometime later, a stunningly beautiful woman arrived at the castle. Charmed by her beauty and magical abilities, her father married the mysterious woman. Snow White was excited and happy to meet her new stepmother, but unbeknownst to both the young princess and her father, the new Queen turned out to be an evil enchantress who only cared about her beauty and the power it gave her.
Shortly after that, the King was sent away to deal with a southern kingdom, but he was secretly murdered by the new Queen so she can usurp his throne, leaving Snow White unaware of her father's murder for many years. As the new Queen started overtaxing her subjects and conscripting them to serve her, Snow White becomes a target of her stepmother's hatred and is forced to become a scullery maid before being confined inside the castle, leaving the kingdom's people to believe the princess had died.
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While Snow White is cleaning the halls, she meets a thief named Jonathan, who is trying to feed himself and his friends. Snow White feels sorry for him and lets Jonathan leave, before continuing her duties. Later, Snow White goes to speak to her stepmother about helping those who are less fortunate like Jonathan and tries to convince her into doing so, but the Queen declines, saying no one needs luxury and they don't want a withering flower but a perfect diamond. When Jonathan gets caught and the Queen prepares to have him executed, Snow White speaks on his behalf and tries to ask her stepmother to show mercy, just like her father would do. But instead, the Queen insists on punishing Jonathan by having him stripped off his clothes and tied up to the castle gate to make him get cold to death.
Snow White walks around the castle, thinking back to the happy days before her stepmother arrived. Seeing Jonathan bound to the castle gate, she frees him and gives him a piece of bread. When he asks her to come with him and see the kingdom for herself, she declines and goes back to the castle. However, the Queen witnesses all this and is furious.
Going to her chambers, when the Queen later asks the Magic Mirror who the "fairest of them all" is, the mirror reveals that Snow White is now the fairest. Filled with jealousy, she then orders the Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest to pick apples, kill her and bring her heart in a box as proof. However, he can't bring himself to do it, so he lets the princess flee into the forest. After fleeing into the forest and meeting woodland animals, Snow White comes across a small cottage, owned by the Seven Dwarfs named, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Dopey, Bashful, Sleepy, and Sneezy. When Snow White explains her situation to the dwarfs, they let her stay with them for the night, while they work in a mine.
Meanwhile, back at the castle, the Queen soon learns from her Magic Mirror that the Huntsman did not kill Snow White and punishes him, before ordering her guards to find and capture the princess. The next morning, after the other dwarfs laugh at Dopey's ridicule, Snow White comforts him and teaches him to express himself by whistling. After convincing the dwarfs to help clean the house, she sets off to find her father. On her way, she meets Jonathan again, who leads her to his troops, a group of bandits. The Queen's guards find them and try to capture Snow White but Jonathan and the bandits protect her and fight bravely until she lures them away with the forest animals' help.
Snow White takes Jonathan and the bandits back to the dwarfs' cottage, where they all celebrate and dance together. During this time, Snow White and Jonathan begin to develop feelings for one another, but they hear the guards nearby and Jonathan and the bandits lure them away, giving Snow White the chance to escape for freedom. However, Jonathan is caught and taken to the Queen's court, where he is imprisoned after she learns where Snow White is. Unbeknownst to both Snow White and Jonathan, the Queen goes to her chamber, transforms into an old hag and creates a poisoned apple that will put Snow White to sleep and slowly kill her.
Snow White is in the cottage when the dwarfs go to work and she is greeted by the disguised Queen. The hag tricks Snow White into believing that she is Jonathan's ally and offers her the poisoned apple, which she eats. Snow White falls into a deep sleep just as she learns that the Queen killed her father, and the dwarfs returns home as the Queen leaves. The dwarfs mourn their friend and Jonathan locates them. He kisses Snow White and she awakens. The two emotionally reunite with another kiss and sing to each other.
Now that Snow White is revived, she and Jonathan are determined to take back her kingdom and go to confront the Queen. Returning to her kingdom, Snow White confronts her stepmother over her tyranny, encourages her subjects to do the same and reveals the truth of her father's death. Snow White gets all of her people, Jonathan, the guards and the dwarfs to stand up for their kingdom, while the Queen learns from the mirror that Snow White will always be fairer than her for her kindness and just personality. Snow White enters the chamber just in time to see the Queen destroy the Magic Mirror in a rage, but she then turns into glass herself due to all of her abilities stemming from the Mirror. The Queen subsequently disappears into some kind of vortex, leading to her death, as the magic mirror has broken.
After the magic mirror repairs itself, Snow White is crowned the new Queen of the kingdom and marries Jonathan.
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Trivia[]
Snow White shares similarities with the character of the same name from Once Upon A Time as both get their names from a snowstorm they were born in, discovered their stepmothers to have killed their fathers, and had their subjects rebel against their stepmothers.
Snow White is the seventh Disney Princess to have her movie be turned into a remake, preceded by Aurora from the 2014 live-action remake Maleficent, Cinderella, Belle, Jasmine, Hua Mulan and Ariel.
Unlike most of her fairytale counterparts, Snow White falls in love with a commoner who is also a rogue thief instead of a prince, similar to Rapunzel and her love interest, Flynn Rider, who’s also a thief. It also makes her comparable to Eilonwy and Kida Nedakh, since Taran and Milo Thatch are nowhere close to being nobility.
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