The lion-faced underground hero in the 1987 television series Beauty and the Beast is named Vincent.
Played by Ron Perlman, Vincent lives beneath New York City in a hidden community commonly known as the tunnels. He develops a close relationship with Catherine Chandler, a Manhattan assistant district attorney played by Linda Hamilton. The series uses the fairy tale as a framework for a modern romantic drama rather than adapting Disney's animated story.
Vincent is physically powerful and has animal-like features, but the program presents him as intelligent, compassionate, and deeply connected to the underground society. His appearance is the result of the show's original mythology, not the curse-and-castle plot used in many traditional versions.
The character's name is sometimes confused with the series title or with names from other adaptations. Vincent is the central male protagonist, while Catherine is the investigative partner whose life brings the underground world into contact with New York above ground.