Lucille La Verne

Lucille La Verne earns my admiration for one extraordinary fact: a celebrated stage actress capped her career by voicing Disney's first true villain, the Evil Queen in Snow White. Born in Nashville in 1872, she lived through the seismic shift from silent to sound, and then poured everything into an animated queen as her final role. That cold, imperious voice has not aged a day. There is real romance in a performer's life's work becoming an immortal character. I am simply floored that a voice forged on the live stage became the bedrock of animation history. Few legacies are so perfectly distilled.

Name (English)

Lucille La Verne

Name (Japanese)

ルシル・ラ・ヴァーン

Reading

るしる・ら・ゔぁーん

Born

November 7, 1872 – March 4, 1945

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Origin

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / voice actor / actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille%20La%20Verne
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451745

Tags

• Tennessee
• stage actor
• film actor
• voice actor

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.