Maleficent is a fictional character from Walt Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty and an official Disney Villain. She is the (self-proclaimed) Mistress of All Evil, who, after not being invited to a royal christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. The character is Disney's version of the wicked fairy godmother from the original French fairy tale and Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. She was voiced by Eleanor Audley in the 1959 film, but has since been voiced by Lois Nettleton for Disney's House of Mouse and by Susanne Blakeslee for the Kingdom Hearts video game franchise, in which Maleficent is a recurring villain.