The Evil Queen is the main antagonist of the Faerie Tale Theatre episode "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". She is the episode's version of the Evil Queen from the original fairy tale.
She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave, who also portrayed Max Mitsopolis in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
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After the queen dies, the king remarries the Evil Queen who is an evil and vain woman who practices magic. The Queen possesses a magical mirror and every day she asks it who is the fairest in the land and every time it answers that she is the fairest. After Snow White comes into her bedroom to show her her new juggling skills, the mirror tells the Queen that Snow White is the fairest now, much to the Queen's fury. She summons the Huntsman and orders him to take Snow White into the forest, remove her heart, and bring it back to her in one of her jewelry boxes. The Huntsman takes Snow White into the forest and tells her to run away into the forest and never return to the palace. The Huntsman then kills a boar and gives her the boar's heart. Snow White finds a cottage belonging to seven dwarf miners named Bubba, Bernard, Bruno, Boniface, Baldwin, and Barnabas who allow her to stay with them.
When the magic mirror tells the Queen that Snow White is still the fairest and now lives with the seven dwarves, the Queen makes a magic potion that transforms her into an elderly saleswoman after ordering the Huntsman to surrender herself to the royal guards. She then goes to Snow White at the dwarves' cottage and strangles her with colorful ribbons and laces while the dwarves are at work. When the dwarves return home at night, they successfully revive her. When the mirror tells the Queen once again that Snow White is the fairest, she once again uses her magic powers to make a poisoned apple and shapeshift into a fruit saleswoman. She then goes back to Snow White at the dwarves' cottage and poisons her with the apple. After the dwarves are unable to revive her, they put Snow White into a clear coffin. While on the way to the mountain top to put the coffin, they run into a Prince and trip and fall. The coffin falls and awakens Snow White who marries the Prince. When the Prince hears of the Queen, he has his magician have every mirror the Queen looks in turn black. Out of shock, the Queen dies.