The three good fairies called Aurora, Briar Rose. Aurora appears in the feature film as Maleficent's secret rival and good friend, portrayed by actress Elle Fanning while Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt portrays her as a 5-year old. Another person, a man, is looking at her from across the room, and she is scared. Assuming a laying spot on the bier, Aurora attempts to find with Emma or Henry in the dream world. Still fearful for the princess's safety, the three good fairies agree to hide the princess as a peasant for 16 years until the danger has passed. Emma takes pity on Aurora and gives her her jacket to keep her warm. Mary Margaret reassures her, saying the dreams will go away in time as she, too, also dealt with the after-effects of the sleeping curse.

Over the next sixteen years, she comes across Maleficent many times as she grows up and comes to believe the wicked fairy is her fairy godmother.

It is a solo sung by Aurora, determined to prove herself as a good ruler to the kingdom after her parents, King Hubert and Prince Phillip are away and leave her in charge temporarily. Flora and Fauna give the infant princess the gifts of beauty and song, respectively. Soon enough, the magic causes more trouble than before having her result in her previous plans which prevail. She allowed Maleficent to kill her deranged father once and for all. At first, she is seen as a slightly naive and carefree young woman as a result of being sheltered for most of her life. Aurora is very loyal to her \"aunts\" and usually obeys their rules respectfully, although she may disagree with them.

Aurora succeeds and when the others return, they enjoy a banquette she prepared. She is cursed by Maleficent, who wanted revenge because her first attempt, to kill Aurora's mother, the original Sleeping Beauty, failed. He tells her his name is Henry and she shouldn't be afraid. While Aurora and Prince Phillip stay behind, Mulan and Neal head off towards the castle. They were frozen for 28 years while the Curse was in effect, but were able to resume their search after Emma Swan weakened the Curse in Storybrooke. At the castle, Aurora and Mulan keep guard at the gate. They take him back to the palace and tend to his injuries. She refuses to help Cora and is knocked out cold, but Hook releases her and it's revealed he took her heart which Cora uses to manipulate Aurora.

According to Maleficent, before the sun sets on Aurora's sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
However, Neal recalls his father always had plans and could have left something behind if he ever came back to the Enchanted Forest. He gives her a kiss, true love's kiss, which finally awakens Aurora and breaks the curse. Prince Phillip raises the question of who his father is, and Neal admits it's Rumplestiltskin. While the couple dance, Flora and Merryweather reignite their rivalry on their respective colors as the two bickering fairies relentlessly change the color on her dress with their magic. She is secretly cared for by Maleficent and Diaval since the Pixies are incapable. They take the baby to a cottage in the forest and raise her, disguising themselves as her mortal aunts and renaming her Briar Rose. BuzzFeed ranked Aurora ninth on the website's ranking of Disney Princess singing voices, with author Kelcie Willis awarding it "Extra props for bringing operatic vocals to Disney. She's later captured by Cora, who tries to use her to get what she wants by revealing that Phillip's soul is in another world.

She is portrayed by Sarah Bolger. Soon after she was born, she was presented to the kingdom at a christening, where she was betrothed to Prince Phillip, the son of King Stefan's good friend King Hubert. Since she was raised not to talk to strangers, Aurora was naturally startled and apprehensive when the handsome Prince P…

At first, she is singing with her forest friends. At the mention of Emma's name, Neal realizes they are acquainted with her as well and tries to explain he needs to save Emma from harm. In the original fairy tale, the princess actually sleeps for 100 years before she is finally awakened by the prince's kiss; this detail was adjusted for the film in favor of having Costa communicated with Walt Disney at least twice a week for nine months,Walt Disney challenged his animators to make the film's characters appear "as real as possible".Walt Disney strongly encouraged Costa to work closely with Davis while he animated Aurora so that she could learn as much as possible about her character and familiarize herself with "all aspects of her.

Aurora initially thought of this as an easy way to avoid the hassle, ignoring her original vow to stay calm. Shocked, Neal murmurs he is back, which causes Aurora to think he's a native of this land, but Mulan points out his clothes are foreign and similar to Emma and Mary Margaret's. Sometime later, Aurora gives birth to a son who is also given the name Phillip. She tells her aunts about the young man that she met, but is confused when they aren't happy for her.