Gallery: Jessica Chastain And 12 Other Actresses Who Have Played Princesses

Mia will always be the OG for us, since many of us grew up watching Disney's slightly whitewashed version of Meg Cabot's snarky Princess Diaries series. What's funny is that Love and Other Drugs saw Anne with much the same haircut, but it was so much more attractive the second time around. But really, playing the sneakers-clad, uncouth big-city princess was a great breakout role for her.

Another classic! Though she gets kidnapped early in the movie, Buttercup redeems herself by standing up against her captors -- and later the prince who wants to marry her -- and staying true to her love Westley (Cary Elwes).

This movie is an instant classic with my friends because it's a pretty solid romantic comedy, but still pretty cheesy. Julia Stiles followed up her evil man-hating Katarina in 10 Things I Hate About You with a character who's equally motivated but actually open to love--only, after she graduates from med school. (Sadly, Luke Mably does not hold a candle to Heath Ledger.)

This was one of my favorite of the modern Disney princesses; the animation was lovely, and Amy Adams mocking the naivete of fairytale princesses before her was hilarious. She's not a bad singer, either, especially when accompanied by New York City's rat and roach populations.

We have to guess that Fiona is based in part on Buttercup. While none of the princesses we know in pop culture are especially helpless, there's an extra depth to her character because Fiona is the recipient of an awful curse: Every night she turns into an ugly ogre.

Hallmark's Prince William/Kate Middleton movie was basically a rip-off of The Prince & Me, so we're going to skip on ahead to the much more interesting Lifetime version...

Catherine: A modern princess who won her prince by prancing around onstage in a see-through swimsuit/lingerie piece.

I thought to myself, "Audrey Hepburn must have played a princess at one point in her career." And voila! Here she is as the sheltered Princess Ann, who escapes her country's embassy to explore Rome with an expat reporter (Gregory Peck).

The original hubbub about Disney's first black princess was that the company had considered making her a slave girl, only to have people of color fight back against what they thought was racist storytelling. But now that I've read through the Wikipedia article, it sounds like Tiana only becomes a princess once she marries the frog prince? Then again, that would put her on equal footing with many of the white princesses in this gallery. Equality!

Here's another radical reimagining of a well-known fairytale: Bella Swan actually grows a pair and picks up a sword to fight the evil queen for the right to her throne!

Lily Collins' version of Snow White may be less adept with a sword--anyone would be, if they didn't have Chris Hemsworth teaching them--but she's still got fire in her.

Yet another Snow! Once Upon a Time lacks the stakes of the other Snow White stories, and Ginnifer's wigs are pretty awful. But where we have hope is that Ginnifer plays both the traditional Snow and her modern-day counterpart who doesn't remember her past life. So maybe we'll get some real character development beyond what we saw in Disney.

The natural redhead will either go the drastic route of chopping off her hair and dyeing it blond, or wearing a wig.

Much like My Week with Marilyn, the Diana profile in Caught in Flight won't be all rosy and nostalgic: indieWIRE says that she will be depicted “as a damaged person who stalks the doctor after he ends the affair.”