{"id":401179,"date":"2026-01-09T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:01:08","slug":"what-we-know-about-australian-teagan-croft-who-will-play-rapunzel-in-disneys-tangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401179\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about Australian Teagan Croft who will play Rapunzel in Disney’s Tangled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Teagan Croft has nabbed the lead role as Rapunzel in Disney’s live-action Tangled alongside American actor Milo Manheim, who’ll play Flynn Rider.<\/p>\n

The original Rapunzel tells the story of a magically long-haired princess locked away in a tower. Her carefully ordered life is up-ended when she teams up with Flynn Rider, a charming outlaw on the run.<\/p>\n

Who is Teagan Croft?<\/p>\n

Croft, 21, was born in Sydney in 2004. She is best known for starring as Rachel Roth, aka Raven, on the DC series Titans which ran from 2018 \u2014 2023.<\/p>\n

Croft spoke to the ABC in 2023 about the Netflix film True Spirit<\/a> in which she was cast as a teenage Jessica Watson, who in 2010 became the youngest person, at 16, to sail around the world solo, non-stop and unassisted.<\/p>\n

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Teagan Croft as Jessica Watson in True Spirit (Netflix)<\/p>\n

Croft was just six when Watson took on that feat and 18 when she portrayed her.<\/p>\n

“What I’ve always loved about Jessica’s journey is that she’s not the youngest girl to be a solo sailor. She is the youngest solo sailor. It’s not a gendered thing,” Croft told the ABC.<\/p>\n

She also said at the time that she was keen to tackle more biopics and name-checked Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n

“I do a cracker impression,” she said.<\/p>\n

Like many Australian stars, Croft is Home and Away alumni. She played the recurring role of Bella Loneragan in 2016.<\/p>\n

She was also in the science fiction movie The Osiris Child.<\/p>\n

Her acting chops as a child actor received high praise from critics when she played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird at Sydney’s New Theatre as a nine-year-old.<\/p>\n

What do we know about the new Tangled movie?<\/p>\n

The 2010 animated version featured the voices of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi and was a mega-hit, grossing more than $880 million worldwide ($US590 million).<\/p>\n

The short film Tangled Ever After and the series Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure followed.<\/p>\n

The new live-action Tangled will be directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman, Better Man), with a screenplay by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Kristin Burr (Freakier Friday, Cruella) is producing.<\/p>\n

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Fans have for years lobbied for a live-action Tangled and speculated about who could play Rapunzel with names like Sabrina Carpenter floated.<\/p>\n

The other star of the live-action Tangled, Manheim, is familiar to Disney audiences as Zed in the Zombies franchise. He is also the son of Emmy and Golden Globe winner Camryn Manheim.<\/p>\n

The release date for Tangled is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

Disney’s live-action Moana, which will also star an Australian<\/a>, is due to hit cinemas in July with Catherine Laga’aia in the lead role.<\/p>\n

The live-action Lilo & Stitch was the first $US1-billion-dollar ($1.5 billion) release of 2025.<\/p>\n

Tangled is the latest Disney feature to get the live-action treatment.<\/p>\n

Other live-action remakes include The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Snow White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Teagan Croft has nabbed the lead role as Rapunzel in Disney’s live-action Tangled alongside American actor Milo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,213301,134,344,24682,38812,213300,213302],"class_list":["post-401179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-disney-tangled","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-rapunzel","tag-tangled","tag-teagan-croft","tag-who-is-teagan-croft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}