50+ Disney Characters that Are Based on Real People

Angela Lansbury’s maternal demeanor is what got the world to fall in love with Ms. Potts when Beauty and the Beast was first released by Disney in 1991. Lansbury voiced Ms. Potts, who was the unofficial matriarch of the castle filling it with the warmth it so desperately needed.

Ms. Potts bears a striking resemblance with Angela Lansbury, which is evident even before she is changed back into human form. This role wasn’t Lansbury’s first time working with Disney, she acted in Bed knobs and Broomsticks (1971), playing a good-hearted witch in charge of several children.