My Lion King Forum

Her voice actor died, but do you think Sarabi appeared in SP but was not given any lines?

Personally, I say no to Sarabi and yes to Sarafina.

EDIT: No longer, I think Sarafina and Sarabi are not featured.

Doubt it, if they did, they'd probably show them and/or make them somewhat different from the rest of the lionesses. All the lionesses look the same.

Honestly, that "Sarafina's voice actress had a line, so that lioness must have been Sarafina!!" claim isn't true. Just because it's the same voice actress doesn't mean that it's the same character. Simba had a different singing voice (I think), does that mean that it wasn't Simba singing?

I voted Sarafina only, just because I very much want to believe that it was her that said "My, how you've grown" although given that the lioness that said that looks noting like Sarafina I doubt that is true.

The lioness who said "My, how you've grown" to Kiara looked more like Sarabi, but the lioness sounded like Sarafina. On Zoe Leader's IMDb profile, it states she had one line in the film so I assume she voiced the lioness. However, the lioness looked nothing like Sarafina, but looked more like Sarabi as the lioness had similiar pelt fur, similiar build, similiar orange eyes, but doesn't have Sarabi's ear rims or colored paws.

Plus, Disney's website states Sarabi's in The Lion King II, so I'll speculate that the lioness is Sarabi, but Zoe Leader (the voice of Sarafina) voiced the lioness.

What site said that? And if Sarabi really was in the movie, where is her name in the credits?

This is the website: http://disney.go.com/characters/#/chara ... elionking/ Click on the Characters link, and click on the Sarabi tab. Also, another Disney website states Sarabi was exiled with Zira and the Outsiders. And, as far as I'm concerned, Sarabi's name doesn't appear in the film credits.

I've seen people cite IMDB and various other sites as evidence of Sarafina appearing in SP before, but as I've said elsewhere, Zoe Leader's name doesn't appear in the SP DVD's credits. I have a feeling that her name being in the credits on various sites is a mistake that was never corrected (like Oprean and Rinda being characters in the Timon and Pumbaa show). In fact, one very old TLK site even goes as far as saying that Zoe Leader not only is featured in SP, but also voiced Sarafina!

So yeah -- I'm pretty sure that neither character appeared in SP.

I think both of them are featured, as random lionesses in the pride. I don't think too much time has passed since the TLK ending, so they're not much older than they were then, so they couldn't really have died of age or anything. So yeah, they're probably still around, but probably the crew decided to create new characters instead of sticking to the older ones (such as Nala and Zazu). And since neither Sarabi nor Sarafina played any mayor role in TLK, they left them out completely in SP.