#20 - Niketa Calame, Moira Kelly, Sally Dworsky, and Laura Williams as Nala - The Lion King (1994)
Best Song: Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Whew. That's a lot of names to look up. And to be fair, this was a tough one, and a lot of others could've taken this #20 spot. Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas was one that I didn't mention in the original post that almost made it here instead, and Nora from Pete's Dragon almost made it based on Candle on the Water alone. But I settled on Nala.
Now, let's hit the negatives first. This is a character that should have been far more memorable than she actually was. For a movie with such a large supporting cast, one of my biggest complaints about The Lion King is that it didn't share the spotlight enough - really the only characters anybody actually remembers from this movie are Simba, Mufasa, Scar, Timon, and Pumbaa. Well, guess what - there was a love interest, too! And guess what - she's not bad! Not nearly memorable enough, but not bad.
One bonus is that even though there are literally four different voice actresses playing this role, you don't notice at all. Unlike both Simbas, the singing voices sound close enough to the speaking voice not to be distracting, and her verse in Can You Feel the Love Tonight is admittedly gorgeous. She's also a more classic Disney princess archetype than Sally or...chick-who-sang-Candle-on-the-Water (I know, I know, I could just look up a few inches since I already looked up the name, but I'm feeling REALLY lazy today), which helps in the frame of reference of this list.
But she's not higher simply because the character of Nala, despite solid vocal performances from the entire women's soccer team involved, is fairly bland and unexplored. Young Nala: "Hey, I'm a troublesome young girl who tags along and...stuff". Adult Nala: "Stop being a troublesome young man and help us kill Scar and...stuff". Not bad, but the actresses don't really get much to work with, and there's nothing to particularly set them apart from the crowd.