Longtime Disney animator Glen Keane first decided to adapt the fairy tale " Rapunzel" by the Brothers Grimm into an animated feature film in 1996.
Voiced by American actress and singer Mandy Moore, Rapunzel is a young princess kept unaware of her royal heritage by a vain old woman named Mother Gothel, who raises her in a secluded tower to exploit her hair's healing abilities to remain young and beautiful forever.Ĭreated and animated by supervising animator Glen Keane, Rapunzel is loosely based on the title character of the fairy tale of the same name published by the Brothers Grimm. Rapunzel is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 50th animated feature film Tangled (2010). Mother Gothel (abductor and acting mother) Rapunzel from the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale