

When the Tremaines are invited to a ball organized by the King as his son the Prince intends to find and marry a young girl, Cinderella asks to go with them, arguing that "each fair maiden in the kingdom is invited" as stated in the invitation. During the following years, she wasted the family's wealth to spoil her bratty and obnoxious daughters and reduced Cinderella to a lowly slave, abusing her out of jealousy for her beauty and kindness. She also has a black cat named Lucifer.Īfter Cinderella's father suddenly died (though the cause of death was unknown), Tremaine revealed her true nature, glaring while Cinderella was mourning the death of her father, without even bothering to pretend to be sad. Prior to the beginning of the story, Lady Tremaine married Cinderella's wealthy father, who wanted to give his daughter Cinderella a motherly figure and sisters in the person of Lady Tremaine's daughters Anastasia and Drizella. In the live-action film, she was portrayed by Cate Blanchett, who also played Hela in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Marissa Wiegler in Hanna, and Penelope in Family Guy.


In the two sequels, she was voiced by Susanne Blakeslee, also voiced Maleficent, Queen Grimhilde from the 1937 Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Cruella De Vil in the direct to video sequel of 101 Dalmatians, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure. In the original film, she was voiced by the late Eleanor Audley, who later voiced Maleficent in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty and Madame Leota in the Haunted Mansion. She is based on the character of the original fairytale. She is Anastasia Tremaine and Drizella Tremaine's selfish mother, Prince Charming’s snobby stepmother-in-law and Cinderella's harsh and wicked stepmother and arch-nemesis. Lady Madonna Tremaine, also known as the Wicked Stepmother and Stepmother or better known as Lady Tremaine, is the main antagonist of Disney's 12th full-length animated feature film Cinderella (which is based on the 1697 French novel of the same name by the late Charles Perrault), and its second direct-to-video sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.
