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March, 4, 2011 /Photography News/  Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has turned stars into characters from some of Disney's best-loved fairytales for three new Disney Dream Portraits.

The images include Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen from Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs along with Alec Baldwin as the magic mirror, titled ‘Where magic speaks, even when you’re not the fairest of them all,’ Penelope Cruz as Belle and Jeff Bridges as the prince from Beauty and the Beast, titled ‘Where a moment of beauty lasts forever,’ and Queen Latifah as Ursla from The Little Mermaid, titled ‘Where memories take hold and never let go.’

They join Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Roger Federer as King Arthur, Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio," Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan, Gisele Bündchen as Wendy Darling and Tina Fey as Tinker Bell; Jessica Biel as Pocahontas; Jennifer Lopez as Jasmine from Aladdin, Julianne Moore as Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyoncé as Alice in Wonderland and David Beckham as Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty, who all previously posed for Leibovitz in Disney theme park ads.

Some of the images from the series will be included as special inserts in the April issues of O – The Oprah Magazine, People En Español, Real Simple, Essence, and InStyle as well as the March 28 issue of People.

The group of photographs, which are the first new images since 2009, are part of Disney's Let the Memories Begin advertising campaign, which initially began in 2007.