--- title: Frozen: Portraits Show How Anna and Elsa Would Look in Real Life description: According to a digital artist in Australia canonical: https://time.com/3758232/frozen-elsa-anna-real-life-portraits/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-25T17:10:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:31.079Z og:title: Here's What Anna and Elsa From 'Frozen' Would Look Like in Real Life og:description: According to a digital artist in Australia og:url: https://time.com/3758232/frozen-elsa-anna-real-life-portraits/ 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: Here's What Anna and Elsa From 'Frozen' Would Look Like in Real Life twitter:description: According to a digital artist in Australia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Anna and Elsa From _Frozen_ Would Look Like in Real Life > Sponsored content. 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On March 28, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins a historic year in Space. Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 25, 2015 5:10 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 25, 2015 5:10 PM UTC _Frozen_ may have come out in 2013, but people are still _all about it_. So to feed everybody’s appetite, an Australia-based digital artist named Jirka Väätäinen produced some very realistic portraits imagining what the movie’s stars, Anna and Elsa, would look like in real life. Väätäinen shared them on his Facebook page this week: The portraits are part of his “Real Life Disney” [series](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.309158265767935.98166.309136959103399&type=1), which also features realistic-looking portraits of Jane from _Tarzan_, Cinderella, Ursula from _The Little Mermaid_ and more. 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