Wicked Witch of the West

Wicked Witch of the West
Wicked Witch of the West
Oz character
	The Wicked Witch of the West (illustration by W. W. Denslow)
First appearance	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Created by	L. Frank Baum
Portrayed by	Margaret Hamilton; (The Wizard of Oz); Idina Menzel; (Wicked); Mila Kunis; (Oz the Great and Powerful); Rebecca Mader; (Once Upon a Time); Cynthia Erivo; (Wicked film adaptations); List Mabel King; (The Wiz); Chandra Currelley-Young; (Apollo Theater Live Revival); Eartha Kitt; (Madison Square Garden); Miss Piggy; (performed by Eric Jacobson; The Muppets Wizard of Oz); Eliza Swenson; (Dorothy and the Witches of Oz); Hannah Waddingham; (West End); Mary J. Blige; (The Wiz Live); Ana Ularu; (Emerald City); ;
Voiced by	Tress MacNeille; (The Wizard of Oz); Laraine Newman; (Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz); Riki Lindhome; (The Lego Batman Movie); Courtenay Taylor; (Lego Dimensions);
In-universe information
Alias	Elphaba Thropp (1995); (Wicked); Theodora (2013); (Oz the Great and Powerful); Zelena (2014); (Once Upon a Time); List Momba (1910); (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz); Mombi (1914); (His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz); Bastinda (1939); (The Wizard of the Emerald City); Smarmy (1969); (The Songs from The Wizard of Oz); Evillene (1974); (The Wiz); Old Snarl-Spats (2000); (The Unknown Witches of Oz); Mordra (2005); (The Living House of Oz); Chester (2007); (The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's); Azkadellia (2007); (Tin Man); Billie Westbrook (2011); (Dorothy and the Witches of Oz); Lynessa (2013); (Grimm Fairy Tales presents Oz); Pyrena (2017); (The Wicked Wizard of Oz); West (2017); (Emerald City); Morella (2019) ; (How the Wizard Came to Oz); ;
Species	Witch
Gender	Female
Title	The Wicked Witch of the West
Occupation	Ruler of the Winkies; (at time of death)
Family	The Wicked Witch of the East (sister)
Nationality	Ozian of Winkie descent
Role	Antagonist

The Wicked Witch of the West, a fictional character in the classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by the American author L. Frank Baum, is the evil ruler of the Winkie Country, the western region in the Land of Oz. She is inadvertently killed by the child Dorothy Gale. In Baum's subsequent Oz novels, the Wicked Witch of the West is occasionally referred to.

Margaret Hamilton played the role of the witch in the classic 1939 film based on Baum's novel. Hamilton's characterization introduced green skin, a feature repeated in later literary and dramatic representations, including Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked (1995), its musical stage adaptation Wicked (2003), its film adaptation Wicked (2024), the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful, and the television series Once Upon a Time.