Anastasia Tremaine is Drizella's younger sister, one of Cinderella's stepsisters, and one of the daughters of Lady Tremaine. She was one of the main antagonists in the first Cinderella movie, but she later began to redeem herself in the sequels of the series.
Bio[]
Anastasia was born to Lady Tremaine and Sir Francis Tremaine as the younger sister of Drizella. When her father died, her mother remarried to the father of a girl named Cinderella, allowing Anastasia to gain a stepfather and a stepsister. Ultimately, after Cinderella's father died, her mother squandered the fortune he had left on both daughters, in order to raise them to be high class ladies, but this ended up causing the chateau they lived in to fall into ruin and allowing her mother to make Cinderella into a servant.
One day, a letter arrived at the chateau announcing a royal ball at the palace, and all the ladies in the land were invited. This made both Anastasia and her sister to think that one of them could find love and happiness by marrying the prince. On the night of the ball, Anastasia tears Cinderella's dress apart alongside her sister when they noticed it had bit and pieces that belonged to them, this causes Cinderella to be unable to attend the ball. That night, Anastasia didn't meet her future husband, for he was smitten with another. A mystery girl, who was Cinderella, though neither Anastasia nor her family knew it, had snagged her chance at happiness.
The next day, the duke of the palace was searching far and wide to find the owner of the glass slipper that was found on the stairs when the mystery girl left the ball at the stroke of midnight. The search brought him to the chateau, where he tried the slipper on the feet of both Anastasia and Drizella, but it didn't fit either of them. Ultimately, Cinderella was revealed to have been the one at the ball that night. So she and the prince were married, leaving her stepsisters and stepmother behind, and lived happily ever after.
Timeline split[]
Timeline in Cinderella II[]
Afterwards, Lady Tremaine became more cold and cruel to her own daughters, forbidding Anastasia from speaking to a simple baker she met in the village, her true love, or even entering his bakery. However, with help and encouragement from Cinderella, she went against her mother's wishes and followed her heart. Leading her to her own happily ever after.
Timeline in Cinderella III[]
After Anastasia went into the woods, found Cinderella's Fairy Godmother and stole her wand, Lady Tremaine undid Cinderella's happily ever after and put Anastasia in Cinderella's place to marry the prince, revealing her willingness to do anything to succeed. After her mother altered the prince's memories with the Fairy Godmother's wand and got her into the palace, the prince's father is reminded of his first love and gives Anastasia his most prized possession, a shell from the beach where he met his future wife and queen. From that moment, Anastasia knew that the true love the king felt was what she wanted to feel and knew that if she's going to marry the prince, she wanted him to truly lover her. Ultimately, the curse on the prince was broken, forcing Lady Tremaine to turn Anastasia into Cinderella so that they would be married. However, Anastasia realizes that she can't go through with her mother's plan and decides to stand up for her stepsister and stops her mother's plan by not pretending to be something she's not, knowing that what Lady Tremaine had in mind for her wasn't true love. This act sends the cruel woman into a fury and she decides to turn both of them into frogs using Fairy Godmother's wand. However, the prince reflects the magic back to her and Drizella with his sword. They soon returned to human form, however, and reduced to scullery maids, indicating that Lady Tremaine was stripped of any and all nobility and/or wealth she had acquired and was forced to be a servant like she made Cinderella into for the rest of her life while Drizella was forced to live her worst nightmare. As for Anastasia, she was forgiven for her mistake and fell in love with the same baker from the timeline in Cinderella II, indicating that she had truly found her happily ever after.
Trivia[]
- In the original film she was voiced by Lucille Bliss and is currently voiced by Tress MacNeille (who is also the current voice of Daisy Duck and Merryweather).