Princess Fiona
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| Shrek character | |
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| Princess Fiona | |
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| Princess Fiona in ogre form in Shrek | |
| Gender | Female |
| Type | Human/Ogress |
| Spouse | Shrek (husband) |
| Other family | King Harold (father), Queen Lillian (mother), Shrek (husband), Arthur Pendragon (cousin), Unknown Father-in-law, ogre triplets (children) |
| Voiced by | Cameron Diaz Holly Fields (in the video games) Renee Sandstrom (singing voice) |
| Film appearance | Shrek Shrek 2 Shrek the Third |
Princess Fiona is the Princess in the films Shrek, Shrek 4-D, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, and the upcoming Shrek 4. Actress Cameron Diaz provides her voice and her singing voice is provided by Renee Sandstrom of Kids Incorporated and Wild Orchid (band).
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[edit] Appearance
[edit] Shrek
In Shrek, Lord Farquaad sends the ogre Shrek to retrieve her to be his bride. When she first appears, she is angered to learn that her rescuer is not her Prince Charming, but an ogre, and that the man who wants to marry her wouldn't come himself. At first, she refuses to travel to Farquaad, but eventually befriends Donkey and develops a bond with Shrek, since they both realise they are more similar then they first thought, and Fiona begins to doubt that Lord Farquaad is her true love. Her dragon guardian later falls in love with Donkey. Through the course of the film, the audience discovers that she is cursed and while she is a human by day, she becomes an ogress at sunset. The spell was placed upon her when she was a child by a Witch. (It is not known whether the Fairy Godmother placed this curse as part of her plan) Donkey discovers this when checking on the Princess at night, and Fiona explains the curse. Shrek overhears part of this, and believes Fiona is referring to him. Angry and upset, Shrek hands Fiona over to Farquaad, and Fiona goes with him willingly as she is upset by Shrek's cold behaviour, although she doesn't seem to like Farquaad on sight. When Donkey later on reveals to Shrek that Fiona was talking about 'somebody else', Shrek rushes off to disrupt the wedding. The curse is lifted at the end, when Fiona is kissed by Shrek and becomes an ogress permanently; while she had expected to become her human self, Shrek assures her that she is still beautiful and the two marry. Then they have a big party and Shrek and Fiona go to a beach on their honeymoon.
[edit] Shrek 2
Shrek 2 features her trying to convince Shrek to meet her parents in the kingdom of Far Far Away (resembling the shallowness of Hollywood). They go, and her Fairy Godmother, who had her locked away in the tower to begin with, still believes she is under the original curse. When the Fairy Godmother finds out that she is in fact married to an ogre, FG plots to kill Fiona's husband so her son, Prince Charming, can marry her. It turns out that there was a semi-complex plan where the Prince Charming, not Shrek, was supposed to rescue Fiona and marry her. It was the King's way of repaying the Fairy Godmother for a favor she had done him while courting Fiona's mother. Fiona is briefly returned to human form after Shrek drinks a "Happily Ever After" potion, which changes both the drinker and their true love into more beautiful forms. To make the change permanent however, she must kiss her true love by midnight. Fairy Godmother tries to get King Harold to give his daughter a love potion so that she'd fall in love with Charming and kiss him to make the potion's effect permanent. Both plans ultimately fail however. Harold, after seeing how much Fiona dislikes Charming, does not give her the love potion. When Shrek tries to kiss Fiona, she tells him that she wants to live happily ever after with the ogre she married. She and Shrek then turn back into ogres.
[edit] Shrek the Third
In Shrek the Third, she has to act as the queen of Far, Far Away while her father is ill. When the latter passes away, Shrek sets out to find her cousin Arthur Pendragon, and she tells him that she is pregnant (something that she has been hinting at him since the start of the film). While she is having a baby shower, Prince Charming stages an invasion so that he can proclaim himself king of Far Far Away. Fiona organises the resistance with her friends Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Doris the Ugly Stepsister, but Rapunzel betrays them to marry Prince Charming. Thanks to the fighting abilities of her mother, they get out of prison and manage to escape, and the other princesses 'cut loose' and become more independent, so that they can save Shrek from being killed by Prince Charming. In the end, she has triplets with Shrek. This was the only film in the series so far where Fiona is not seen as a human.
[edit] Other appearance
In Shrek 4-D, she is kidnapped by the ghost of Lord Farquaad, who intends to kill her, marry her ghost, and become king of the Underworld. He is later 're-killed' by the Dragon which comes to their rescue. The Dragon then swallows his remains and rubs her full belly until he's fully digested. This was also featured in the CD-ROM that was distributed widely during the showing of Shrek 2 in theatres.
[edit] Personality
Princess Fiona is initially portrayed as the archetypal princess from fairy tales, speaking formally in matters of courtship and presenting high expectations of how she is to be rescued, who is to rescue her, and so forth. Later, Princess Fiona's true self emerges, as she's really a very down-to-earth and independent woman who is a match for Shrek at burping and farting, is a loyal friend, and unlike princesses of fairy tales, an expert in hand-to-hand combat with knowledge of chinese martial arts. She also has very bad manners (she burps and passes wind), since she is an ogre.
When asked if Princess Fiona resembled her, Cameron Diaz remarked how she thought Fiona looked more like her sister than her.[citation needed]
Fiona, along with other characters from the series, has a MySpace page that was created to promote Shrek the Third. According to the page, she is 22 years old, which is 86 years younger than her husband Shrek (age 108).[citation needed] One theory for this may be that Fiona started out as a human and therefore ages normally, while Shrek, being an ogre from the start, ages differently.
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