Paola Madrigal

Paola Madrigal is a character in Disney's 2024 animated feature film Encanto 2: A New Generation. She is the youngest child of Cali and Marcos Madrigal, and sister of José and Hazel. Described as “overly emotional”, Paola’s gift creates music from thin air everywhere she goes, and it changes depending on her emotions.

Background
Born into the Madrigal family, Paola is the youngest daughter of Cali and Marcos, and the younger sister of José and Hazel. In addition to being the cousin of Mateo, Rosa, Rico and Faye, Paola is also the granddaughter of Mirabel and Lorenzo. Paola lived in the nursery with her older siblings, until both of them moved into their own rooms. From that point on, she lived with her younger cousin Rico, who is 3 years younger than her. When Paola was five, she received the gift of being able to create music everywhere she went that changes based on her emotions, and she moved out of the nursery into her new room.

Official Description

 * "Paola is José's younger sister who is very emotional about everything. You can always tell how she's feeling about something based on the music that plays when she's around."


 * "Paola is a walking talking music machine, and she is very emotional. She gets really happy, sad, angry, and more at pretty much anything that happens."

Development
As with the rest of the new Madrigal family, Paola was designed to reflect members from the original Madrigal family, while also appearing as a family member everyone can relate to. As in the final production, the studio created Paola from the start as the overly-emotional sister, who is constantly having mood swings based on her current situation. For her appearance, she was designed to appear young and a little wild, with her hairstyle reflecting her uncontrolled emotions, and her dress reflecting her music making powers with music notes across her skirt.

Paola's voice actor, Ava Michelle, described her character: "Paola is a pretty unstable character, but she's not mean or resentful. At least, not on purpose. You can tell that she just wants to keep things smooth and happy, but all it takes is one bad hair day, and you got Metallica playing all throughout the house."

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Encanto 2: A New Generation
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