*Seven confirmed by the woman herself.
1: The eponymous demi-fish was voiced by Jodi Benson.
2: Jodi landed the job after working on the Broadway musical Smile with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch.
3: It was her first voice over job. She created a reel- to-reel audition, and 18 months later got the call that her tape had been selected.
4: Unlike many animated films where the dialogue is recorded in isolation by individual actors, TLM was approached more like a Broadway musical.
The cast spent the first day together reading through the script, then recorded together for the first day.
5: Jodi recorded her dialogue in 14 days... over two-and-a-half years.
6: Ms Benson was also the voice of Barbie in the Toy Story films.
7: She spent her first day on Toy Story 2 playing with a box of Barbies with director John Lasseter.
8: Now in her fifties, Jodi lives in Atlanta and is a home school mum to her two children, aged 12 and 14. They travel on weekends for concerts and appearances.
9: She has never been to Disneyland Paris.
10: According to Box Office Mojo, it grossed $111,543,479 (£71,980,000) in the US and $99,800,000 (£64,393,000) in the rest of the world.
The Little Mermaid is out on Blu-Ray from September 2.
