19 Facts About Princess Tiana

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Princess Tiana's will appear in the Disney+ series Tiana, which is set to debut in 2024.

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Princess Tiana's is loosely based on two princesses: Princess Emma, the heroine of E D Baker's 2002 novel The Frog Princess, and the princess from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince", which inspired Baker's novel.

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Princess Tiana is depicted as a hardworking waitress who dreams of opening her own restaurant.

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Princess Tiana's finds her progress stalled when she transforms into a frog after desperately kissing a prince who has been turned into one by an evil witch doctor.

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Princess Tiana has been mostly positively received with critics praising her personality and values.

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Princess Tiana's is the ninth Disney Princess and is known for being the first African American princess in the Disney Princess franchise.

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7.

The role of Princess Tiana ultimately went to actress and singer Anika Noni Rose, who co-starred alongside Knowles and Hudson in Dreamgirls .

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8.

The fact that Princess Tiana is African American was "never a big issue" for Henn when it came to animating her, but drawing her as both a human and a frog proved difficult.

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Princess Tiana said, "Tiana appears in the movie in so many different forms … she's a little girl, she's an adult human, and then she's a frog".

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Tiana works two jobs in order to raise enough money to turn a rundown sugar mill into a restaurant, a promise she made to her father, who was killed in World War I As a result, Tiana has become absorbed with her work and doesn't have time for anything else.

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Princess Tiana finds hope when her wealthy childhood best friend Charlotte pays her a lump sum of money to make and serve beignets at a masquerade ball she is hosting for the handsome but disinherited Prince Naveen.

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Night, Princess Tiana's hopes are crushed when the realtors of the mill tell her that she was outbid by someone for the sugar mill and that it is probably a good thing given her 'background'.

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13.

Princess Tiana is able to smash the charm and leaves Facilier at the mercy of the angry voodoo spirits.

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14.

Princess Tiana finds Naveen, who is promising Charlotte that he will marry her but only if she will give Princess Tiana her restaurant.

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Once they kiss, they finally become human again because Tiana is finally now a princess and is shown wearing her princess ball gown.

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16.

Princess Tiana's joined Disney's "Once upon a Dream Parade" at Disneyland Paris in April 2010 as part of the "New Generations Festival".

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In 2014, Princess Tiana made a guest appearance on Sofia the First in the episode "Winter's Gift".

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Live-action character inspired by Princess Tiana is a main character in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time, and she is played by Mekia Cox.

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In December 2020, it was announced that Princess Tiana would have a self-titled spin-off TV series debuting on Disney+ in 2024.

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