Princess Audrey is the main antagonist of the Descendants franchise. She is the daughter of Queen Aurora and King Phillip, the former arch-rival of Mal.

She was portrayed and voiced by Sarah Jeffery.

Biography[]

Descendants[]

In the first film, Audrey is seemingly a sweet, bubbly, vivacious and kindhearted girl on the surface, but in reality she is incredibly vain, selfish and narcissistic, as well as vituperative, xenophobic and resentful towards the VKs. Audrey becomes even worse after Prince Ben (the son of Queen Belle and King Beast, the rulers of Auradon) leaves her for Mal, who happens to be the daughter of her mother's enemy Maleficent. Audrey tries to fix this by dating Chad as she is still incredibly hurt by Ben leaving her and only dated him in an attempt to make him jealous, but it doesn't work. Since Audrey grew up in royalty, she does have a reason to be very elegant. She was the most popular student in Auradon Prep before Mal arrived with her friends (Evie, Jay and Carlos De Vil).

At the Auradon Prep Family Day celebration, Audrey takes her chance along with her grandmother to ridicule and bully the VKs, and eventually, the two completely abandon Ben since he is the only remaining AK who treats them with respect. However, she is impressed to see Mal and the others defeating Maleficent during Ben's coronation as King before dancing with Jay in the closing number.

Wicked World[]

As shown throughout the series she still remains envious of Mal and the other VKs. In general, Audrey is shown to get very exasperated at Mal's antics, and is often victim to magic-related incidents. In season one of Wicked World she constantly accuses and blames Mal for everything bad that's happening in Auradon and convinces most of the other AKs to do the same.

After CJ is revealed as the true culprit she admits that she will never understand the VKs. The same thing happens in the next season when Mal is possessed by her cursed jewel however she does end up finally redeeming herself for good and assisted everyone in helping defeat Zevon. She also appears to be rather easily scared and despite attempting to fight her battles, she is very weak, frail and incompetent, so she doesn't do much harm to many opponents with the exception of the Puppet Army.

Descendants 2[]

Audrey almost doesn't physically appear in the second film, but she is mentioned by Chad and Jane, with her voice heard offscreen on Chad's Phone who stated that she went on a spa vacation with the Three Good Fairies. Shortly prior to the Royal Cotillion, Audrey was heading back home when her carriage broke down, resulting in her calling Chad into the scene to guide her home.

Descendants 3[]

In the third and final film, Audrey was shown watching Ben's proposal to Mal to become the new queen of Auradon as a reward for her heroics against Maleficent and Uma, to which Mal happily accepts. Audrey completely protested this as she wanted to be queen herself, but the entire audience ignored her by instantly cheering for Mal when she accepts the proposal. After being scolded by Queen Leah for her failure to have Ben by her side, a jealous Audrey sarcastically congratulates Mal before accusing her of stealing Ben, causing Mal to run off with Ben.

Back in her dorm room, Audrey cries over her failure to become queen of Auradon, feeling so upset that her lifelong dream is gone, her grandmother making her feel like a failure, and that everyone actually supports Mal as their new queen of Auradon. Unable to let go of her jealousy against Mal, Audrey decides to become a villain herself, intending to make all of Auradon pay for their supposed betrayal against her. To that end, she broke into the Museum of Cultural History, where she stole the Queen's Crown and Maleficent's scepter, branding a dark wardrobe and dark makeup, and turning her hair pink and blue. Using the scepter, Audrey confronted Mal, blaming her for ruining her life and using the scepter to turn Mal into an old hag. She later crashed Jane's birthday party by casting a sleeping spell on everyone (except for Chad, who instantly allies with her, and Jane, who escapes by hiding in the Enchanted Lake). Upon hearing from Jane of what happened, Ben was confronted by Audrey, who issued an ultimatum: he must marry her and make her his queen in exchange for freeing everyone from her spells. However, Ben is outraged by this and refuses by ordering Audrey to hand over the scepter and he will forgive her in return. With Ben not realizing that he dumped her without so much as a reason, this incites an angry Audrey to turn Ben into a Beast (just like his father) before turning everyone else in Auradon into stone statues.

Fortunately, Mal and her friends were able to escape to the Isle, where Mal is turned back to normal and learned that a certain ember held by Hades (who happens to be Mal's father can be used to break the spell. After convincing Hades to hand over the ember, Mal and her friends formed a deal with Uma and her pirate crew to help take down Audrey in exchange for free passage to Auradon. Witnessing the VKs' return to Auradon, Audrey casts another spell to bring knight armor suits to life to fight against them, but the VKs defeated the suits of armor together, much to Audrey's outrage. She is even more outraged to see that Jane has turned Ben back to normal and reunited with the other VKs.

Declaring this to be the last straw, Audrey furiously betrays Chad by locking him up in a closet before turning everyone else (except for Mal, Uma, Harry Hook and Celia Facilier) into stone. Taking Celia hostage, Audrey calls Mal out to fight her, provoking an angry Mal to transform into her dragon form. Seeing that Mal was in danger, Uma used her powers and combined them with the ember's, leading to Audrey being knocked out and placed in a deep sleep, resulting in her evil spells being undone for good. Though everyone in Auradon is finally freed from Audrey's spells for good, Queen Leah is completely distraught of the fact that Audrey just suffered the same curse that Maleficent inflicted on Aurora and that she has yet to find true love that could awaken her from it. Fortunately, Mal brings in Hades, who uses the ember to revive Audrey from her curse.

Being revived back to life, Audrey reflects on her actions and apologizes to both Mal and Ben, admitting that she wanted to make them pay for her loss. However, Mal and Ben forgive Audrey by apologizing to her for their actions against her; even Leah admits that she was wrong to teach Audrey to hate VKs and gratefully bows down to Mal as an apology for her previous behavior. Deciding to support Ben and Mal's new reign in Auradon out of gratitude for saving her life, Audrey is last seen happily celebrating with the other AKs and VKs before dancing with Chad and Harry.

​Appearance[]

Audrey is a slim, brown-skinned, pretty girl of average height with long brown hair who normally wears a pink and blue dress, however she wears several different outfits like a cheerleading uniform or several dresses similar to her normal attire whenever she is at a formal event. She was briefly turned into a yellow duckling by Zevon after she ranted to him about ruining everything, and then she was changed back after Zevon's defeat. During Descendants 3 Audrey dyed her hair pastel pink and adopted a new pink dress with a corset, after taking on her "queen of mean" persona her hair received purple streaks throughout it, she took to wearing darker eyeshadow and added a charcoal long robe and crown to her ensemble while also wielding Maleficent's staff.

Personality[]

Audrey is an extremely vain girl who tends to over-worry and believes herself to be the most beautiful girl in school. When Mal gave other girls makeovers, she was upset, not because she believed Mal was up to something but because she didn't want anyone to rival her in appearance.

She was immediately uncomfortable with the idea of VKs coming, often criticizing them in private and in front of them. She believes that they're evil due to their parents' villainous acts without giving them a chance. She not only acts mean to the VKs, but to a few others as well, being very demanding and demeaning such as laughing at Jane over her ugly hair and preferring to be the center of attention. She hates looking imperfect and enjoys competition and taking selfies.

Even after accepting the VKs, she remained jealous of them because they were getting all the attention she's used to getting and having trouble trying to figure them out. She even disliked it when Evie won being Q.N.L.B. instead of herself and became suspicious of them when CJ committed a series of crimes around Auradon. She's quick to frame Mal for it, even blaming her when Ben started going missing.

Despite this, she does show a strong sense of morality, as she refused to steal on the Isle of the Lost in Episode 5 and even offered to help pay for a cup that Ben broke to prove the two could be bad, worriedly asking if they were going to go to jail. In addition, she does care about her friends, even though she comes off as rude. In most cases though, she is uptight and no-nonsense, having little patience for others' antics. This is taken further when she planned the Jewel-bile for the 5 VKs as a gift to their friendship and felt guilty for being unfair to Mal out over a misunderstanding.

Despite her vanity, Audrey has a great deal of empathy lying under the surface. After being released from the hold Maleficent's staff had on her and being awakened from her enchanted sleep by Hades, she was truly horrified by what she had done while under the influence of the staff, sincerely apologizing to Mal and Ben for everything she did to them.

Quotes[]

Gallery[]

Audrey and Chad at Ben's coronation.

Audrey with her grandmother and Mal.

Audrey in Wicked World.

Audrey in her cheerleading outfit.

Audrey, Jane and Lonnie when CJ arrived.

Audrey ranting to Zevon.

Audrey turned into a duckling by Zevon.

Audrey making amends with Mal at the end of Wicked World Season 2.

A promo photo of the Queen of Mean on the set of Descendants 3.

Audrey rising to power as an evil queen in Descendants 3.

Trivia[]

• Audrey and Chad are both a sort of reversal of the villains' children, since they are children of heroes who are selfish and cruel; even Ben's mother Belle pointed this out as she doesn't like Audrey due to her self-absorbed nature. However, Audrey has comparatively more reasoning and motivation behind her actions than Chad does, and most of the evil actions she does in Descendants 3 were done as a result of her using Maleficent's scepter by her own will.
• Incidentally, her grandmother Queen Leah, Mal and Ben are indirectly responsible for her path to villainy. This was shown when Leah raised Audrey to hate VKs in general and puts pressure on her to live up to her mother Aurora's reputation. When Mal used a love spell on Ben, it made Ben publicly humiliate Audrey, leaving her. Even after the love spell got washed away, Ben chose Mal without considering how Audrey would feel. And after Audrey loses Leah's respect due to her failure of becoming Ben's new Queen, the pain of having lost everything pushed her into becoming a villain.
• She did not reappear in Descendants 2 which was explained in universe as her being on a spa vacation with the three good fairies as shown in the scene where she calls Chad to assist her after her vehicle broke down on her way back to Auradon Prep and in the short promo for Descendants 3 called Audrey's Royal Return. The reason for her absence was due to Sarah Jeffrey being unable to attend filming for the second movie due to schedule conflicts.
• Of all of the main characters in the series, she interacts with Carlos the least.
• Although Audrey is Queen Aurora's daughter they are not very similar. Aurora is a sweet, gentle, blissful, dreamy, kind and polite person. But Audrey is vain, self-absorbed, envious, short-tempered and obnoxious.

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