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  • Birth Name: Lana Maria Parrilla
  • Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/15/1977, Cancer
  • Profession: Actor
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Once Upon a Time: Who's the Evil Queen's Former Love?

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the Evil Queen's true love after all?

Once Upon a Time's soulless, heart-crushing Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) once had a love of her own — and it wasn't King Leopold (Richard Schiff), Snow White's father who will be introduced on this week's episode of the ABC drama. To find out who that love could be, TVGuide.com turned to the Queen's right-hand man Sidney (Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito), who also dishes on which fairy tale character the Mirror was before he was in the employ of the Queen...read more

Once Upon a Time's Lana Parrilla: Why the Evil Queen Became So Evil

She murdered her father, squeezed the life out of her lover's heart and conjured a curse that ripped the lives of thousands of people from their homes, erasing their memories and leaving them stranded in a foreign world. What makes Once Upon a Time's Evil Queen so evil?

That soon will be answered on the ABC fairy-tale drama, but portrayer Lana Parrilla teases that the origin of her malevolence springs from...read more

Once Upon a Time Bosses on How Lost Influenced Their Fairytale World

From Lost to Once Upon a Time, executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis sure know how to create an entangled mystery that will keep audiences scratching their heads. 

The duo began the groundwork for Once eight years ago, but it took working on Lost to really hone their idea. "We were really young and we didn't understand how to execute the idea we had. We called it our eight-year writer's block," Kitsis says with a laugh.

Exclusive: Once Upon a Time casts Lost's Emilie de Ravin as Belle

The result? A series in which...read more

Lana Parrilla: Videos

Pace Yourself!
It Appears I've Been Robbed!
Why do you Spin so Much?
I Make Gold

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The Spiders
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The Spiders

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Las Vegas v. Black Betty
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The Match Game [HD]
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South Bound Suarez
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Day 8: 5:00 A.M - 6:00 A.M.

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Year Title Description
2011 Once Upon a Time TV Show Series, Actor - Evil Queen/Regina
2010 Miami Medical TV Show Series, Actor - Eva Zambrano
2008 Swingtown TV Show Series, Actor - Trina Decker
2006 Windfall TV Show Series, Actor - Nina Schaefer
2002 Boomtown TV Show Series, Actor - Teresa Ortiz

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Once Upon a Time Tales: Meet the Mistress of All Evil, Maleficent

Once Upon a Time there was an Evil Queen — but she wasn't the only evil force in all the land.

This Sunday's episode of Once will introduce the self-proclaimed Mistress of All Evil, Maleficent (True Blood's Kristin Bauer). In the original Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent is the vengeful fairy who casts a spell upon Princess Aurora, causing her to fall into a deep sleep after being pricked by the spindle of a spinning wheel. 

In the world of Once, however, Maleficent is... read more

ABC's Once Upon a Time Turns Fairytales Into Reality

ABC's Once Upon a Time is about to take the fairytale characters out of the world of make believe and bring them into reality.

In the series, (premiering Sunday at 8/7c on ABC), the Evil Queen banishes Snow White, Prince Charming and their fairytale kin to the real-world town of Storybrooke, where they lead normal lives, never realizing who they were. It's not until Henry (Jared Gilmore) drags his estranged mom, tough bail bondsman Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), into town to help her realize a shocking truth: Fairytales are real, and Emma is the daughter of Snow White.

VIDEO: Watch the first 9 minutes of ABC's Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time will follow Emma as she tries to comprehend this rather surprising turn of events.  "She's... read more

Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Premieres of Once Upon a Time, Boss and More!

Once is not enough. Sometimes a second look, or a second episode, is necessary to convince a skeptic that a show is worth taking a risk on. So it is with ABC's dazzling but dauntingly precious Once Upon a Time (Sunday, 8/7c), which back when I was considering it for Fall Preview left me wondering: "Is this ambitiously whimsical fantasia the next Pushing Daisies cult fave or the next Eastwick insta-flop? (Either way, it will likely be an uphill climb to happily ever after.) It would be easier to love if it weren't so convoluted and campy."

But then ABC made another episode (the third, airing Nov. 6) available for review, and I started to find myself enchanted and beguiled, ready to curl up with more chapters of this fractured fairy tale. First, though, you have to digest the premise, and the overstuffed and often overripe pilot is a lot to swallow. We begin in a lavishly rendered fairy-tale land ...
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Once Upon a Time Exclusive: Eion Bailey Heading to Storybrooke

Eion Bailey will be taking a trip to Storybrooke in ABC's upcoming fairy tale drama Once Upon a Time, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Once Upon a Time Scoop: A Deadwood alum is coming to town

Executive-produced by Lost's Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, the upcoming series tells the story of the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) casting a spell upon classic fairy tale characters who live in Storybrooke, Maine, and don't know their own true identities.

Bailey, who recurs on Covert Affairs, has signed on for the mysterious role of... read more

Buffy Vet Emma Caulfield Heads to ABC's Once Upon a Time

Emma Caulfield will guest-star in an upcoming episode of ABC's magical drama Once Upon a Time, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Executive-produced by Lost's Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, the upcoming series tells the story of the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) casting a spell upon classic fairy tale characters who live in Storybrooke, Maine, and don't know their own true identities.

Once Upon a Time Scoop: A Deadwood alum is coming to town

Caulfield, who is best known for her role as Anya the ex-vengeance demon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will play... read more

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