Miriam

Miriam is the tritagonist in the DreamWorks film, The Prince of Egypt. She is the firstborn child and eldest daughter of Yocheved and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. Miriam first appears as a child when she, Aaron, and their mother Yocheved try to save Moses from the genocide that Pharaoh Seti I has enacted against the newborn boys born to the Hebrews. Yocheved places Moses in a basket and sets him adrift onto the river Nile; young Miriam then follows the basket down the river.