<P> During the battle, Gaston abandons his companion LeFou, who then sides with the servants to fend off the villagers . Gaston attacks the Beast in his tower, who is too depressed to fight back, but regains his spirit upon seeing Belle return . He defeats Gaston, but spares his life before reuniting with Belle . Ungrateful and unrepentant, Gaston fatally shoots the Beast from a bridge, but it collapses when the castle crumbles, and he falls to his death . The Beast tells belle that he was happy to see her again then he dies as the last petal falls, and the servants become inanimate . As Belle tearfully professes her love to the Beast, Agathe reveals herself as the enchantress and undoes the curse, repairing the crumbling castle, and reviving the beast then turning him and his servants' human making the villagers' remember there loved ones . The Prince and Belle host a ball for the villagers, where they dance happily . </P> <Ul> <Li> Emma Watson as Belle, a young benevolent bibliophile woman who develops feelings for the Beast and begins to see the humanity within him . <Ul> <Li> Daisy Duczmal portrays an infant Belle . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Dan Stevens as Beast, a cold - hearted, selfish, unkind prince who is transformed into a beast and forced to earn back his humanity by learning to truly love and be loved in return, as well as to give rather than take . Stevens portrays the character through motion - capture . <Ul> <Li> Adam Mitchell portrays the younger version of the prince . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Luke Evans as Gaston, a narcissistic and arrogant hunter and veteran of the French Royal Army who is willing to go as far as it takes to have Belle as his trophy wife . </Li> <Li> Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's protective widowed father who works as a music box maker and an artist . <Ul> <Li> Jolyon Coy portrays the young Maurice . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Josh Gad as LeFou, Gaston's flamboyant and long - suffering sidekick who bolsters his friend's ego but gets very little in return . </Li> <Li> Ewan McGregor as Lumière, the Beast's charismatic bouteiller who has been transformed into a candelabra . </Li> <Li> Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the neurotic court composer and Madame de Garderobe's husband who has been transformed into a harpsichord . </Li> <Li> Audra McDonald as Madame de Garderobe, a world - renowned opera singer and Cadenza's wife who has been transformed into a wardrobe . </Li> <Li> Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Plumette, one of the castle maids and Lumière's lover who has been transformed into a feather duster . </Li> <Li> Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the Beast's gruff but loyal majordomo and the head of the household staff who has been transformed into a mantel clock . </Li> <Li> Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, the castle's motherly head housekeeper who has been transformed into a teapot . </Li> <Li> Hattie Morahan as Agathe, an impoverished hermit and resident of Villeneuve who, in reality, is the enchantress responsible for cursing the Prince . Morahan also narrates the prologue . <Ul> <Li> Rita Davies portrays the enchantress in her beggar woman form . The film was released posthumously after Davies' death . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Nathan Mack as Chip, Mrs. Potts' plucky son who has been transformed into a teacup . </Li> <Li> Adrian Schiller as Monsieur D'Arque, the sly warden of the local asylum who is bribed by Gaston to have Maurice institutionalized . </Li> <Li> Gerard Horan as Monsieur Jean Potts, an absent - minded potter and resident of Villeneuve who is later revealed to be Mrs. Potts' husband and Chip's father . </Li> <Li> Haydn Gwynne as Clothilde, a fishmonger and resident of Villeneuve who is later revealed to be Cogsworth's wife . </Li> <Li> Michael Jibson as the Tavern Keeper, the owner and keeper of Villeneuve's local tavern where Gaston and the village residents drink . </Li> <Li> Ray Fearon as Père Robert, Villeneuve's local chaplain who encourages Belle to borrow the books in the chapel's meager library . </Li> <Li> Sophie Reid, Rafaëlle Cohen, and Carla Nella as the Village Lasses, a trio of women who fawn over Gaston and have a jealousy for Belle . </Li> <Li> Jimmy Johnston, Dean Street, and Alexis Loizon as Tom, Dick, and Stanley, a trio of men who serve as Gaston's henchmen . </Li> <Li> Zoe Rainey as Belle's mother, Maurice's late wife who contracted the plague and died when Belle was an infant . </Li> <Li> Clive Rowe as Cuisinier, the castle's head chef who has been transformed into a stove . </Li> <Li> Gizmo as Frou - Frou, Maestro Cadenza's and Madame de Garderobe's pet Yorkshire Terrier who has been transformed into a footstool . </Li> <Li> Thomas Padden as Chapeau, the prince's valet who has been transformed into a coat rack . </Li> <Li> Tom Turner as The King, the prince's father who, following his wife's death, raised his son to be just as selfish and arrogant as he was . </Li> <Li> Harriet Jones as The Queen, the prince's mother who died of an illness when he was a child . </Li> <Li> Dale Branston as Villeneuve's residential baker . </Li> <Li> Chris Andrew Mellon as Nasty Headmaster, the unnamed headmaster of an all boys school in Villeneuve that disapproves of Belle teaching a young girl how to read . </Li> <Li> Vivian Parry as the Village Lass' mother, an unnamed seamstress . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Emma Watson as Belle, a young benevolent bibliophile woman who develops feelings for the Beast and begins to see the humanity within him . <Ul> <Li> Daisy Duczmal portrays an infant Belle . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Daisy Duczmal portrays an infant Belle . </Li> </Ul>

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