A Summer Con Princess reunion wouldn’t happen without the iconic Belle. “That Belle!” Please welcome back to Puyallup our friend and another Disney Legend, Paige O’Hara to the 2025 Washington State Summer Con lineup from June 20th through the 22nd.
Paige is the voice of Belle from the Academy Award winning film Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Belle is the Disney Princess that inspired a generation to find the true beauty in the kindness that we show others. She became a heroine whose strength and bravery were as apparent as her thirst for adventure and knowledge. Disney auditioned 500 candidates for the role of Belle, before casting O’Hara based on her mature-sounding voice and Broadway experience.
Paige O’Hara is an American actress, voice actress, singer, artist, and painter. O’Hara began her career as a Broadway actress in 1983 when she portrayed Ellie May Chipley in the musical Showboat. In 1991, she made her motion picture debut in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, in which she voiced the film’s heroine, Belle. Following the critical and commercial success of Beauty and the Beast, O’Hara reprised her role as Belle in the film’s two direct-to-video follow-ups, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle’s Magical World, and for a cameo appearance in Ralph Breaks the Internet.