--- title: Meet the Voice of Moana, the Next Disney Princess description: 14-year-old Hawaii native named Auli'i Cravalho landed the part canonical: https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-07T16:04:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:35:08.684Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Meet the Voice of the Next Disney Princess og:description: She'll play the voice of Moana, the first Polynesian princess og:url: https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Voice of the Next Disney Princess twitter:description: She'll play the voice of Moana, the first Polynesian princess twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meet the Voice of the Next Disney Princess by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Oct 7, 2015 4:04 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Oct 7, 2015 4:04 PM UTC The next Disney princess has found her voice in a 14-year-old Hawaii native named Auli’i Cravalho. Cravalho will voice _Moana,_ Disney’s Polynesian teenage princess, who will embark upon a journey to find a fabled island. “Moana is such an amazing character,” Cravalho told [_PEOPLE_](http://www.people.com/article/disney-princess-moana-aulii-cravalho?xid=IFT-Trending). “She’s brave, she is so empowered, she knows what she wants and she’s not afraid to get it.” Hundreds of young women from the Pacific Islands auditioned for the role of Moana, and Cravalho was the last person that casting director Rachel Sutton saw. Disney released a video of the new princess receiving the news that she landed the role. In the clip, she gasps and tears up while giggling, then calls her mom jumping up and down. The film is set to hit theaters in November, 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/"},"headline":"Meet the Voice of the Next Disney Princess","datePublished":"2015-10-07T16:04:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:35:08.684Z","description":"She'll play the voice of Moana, the first Polynesian princess","url":"https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4064545/disney-princess-moana-voice/","name":"Meet the Voice of the Next Disney Princess"}}]}] ```