Benson has even passed the legacy of Ariel down within her own family. In 2024, she spoke to PEOPLE about her daughter, ...

Jodi, who voiced Ariel in Disney's 1989 film The Little Mermaid, is mom to daughter Delaney Benson Like mother, like daughter ...

Jodi Benson sang her daughter Delaney Benson 's praises for following in her acting career footsteps while also carving out a ...

The Little Mermaid live-action remake might tell the same story as the animated Disney classic, but fans can expect some changes along the way in Ariel and Eric's love story. Talking at the press ...

In this op-ed, writer Leah Marilla Thomas discusses how The Little Mermaid gives Ariel legitimate, nuanced reasons to fall in love with Prince Eric — giving both characters nuance missing in previous ...

Original "Little Mermaid" star Jodi Benson is showing her support for Disney's casting of singer Halle Bailey as the new Ariel. Speaking at Florida Supercon on Saturday, Benson said: "The most ...

It’s little surprise Halle Bailey is lovely in the new live-action “The Little Mermaid.” We all knew she would be – we’ve heard her sing, after all. Unless she spontaneously sprouted a second head, ...

Disney has made several movie adaptations of centuries-old tales, and The Little Mermaid was one of them. The plot borrows many key elements from the original story Hans Christian Andersen wrote. Of ...

For whatever reason, though, most of the filmmakers behind these projects seem determined to also “fix” the stories’ main heroines — usually losing what made them so appealing in the first place. The ...

"Just 100 days until it arrives in theaters," Halle Bailey said Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment and breaking news for over five ...

If you once dreamt of being Ariel in The Little Mermaid, or spent half your childhood messing about underwater, you're not alone. But these two performers have made the fantasy a reality, traveling ...