Paige O'Hara Information

Paige O'Hara

Voice Actress
USA

Biography:
Paige O'Hara is an actress, singer, and painter, best known for her role as Disney's animated heroine, Belle, in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning, animated film Beauty and the Beast. With that role, Paige O'Hara added a Disney classic to a career that has spanned Broadway, opera and concert stages as well as recordings. This was followed up in 1997 with the multi-million selling videos Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle's Magical World. In fact Paige has been nominated for the prestigious Annie Award for her role in Belle's Magical World. The unprecedented success of Beauty and the Beast, nominated for six Academy Awards including "Best Picture", has earned her a world-wide legion of fans both young and old. In addition to a Platinum Record for selling over 1,000,000 copies of the multi-Grammy nominated original motion picture soundtrack (it has since gone double platinum), Paige had the opportunity to sing before millions of viewers world-wide on the 64th Annual Academy Awards telecast.