This article is about the character from Sleeping Beauty. For other articles that share the same name, see Aurora (disambiguation). Princess Aurora (also known as Briar Rose) is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. She is the daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah. On the day of her christening, Aurora was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel before sunset on her sixteenth birthday...