<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> <Li> Daisy Duczmal portrays an infant Belle . </Li>

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