<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>

Who plays cogsworth in beauty and the beast 2017