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6	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Series/OnceUponATime You wanted to see your queen? Well, here she is.]]'']]
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8	->''"When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk."''
9	-->-- '''Lana Parrilla''' on taking the role of '''Regina Mills''' on ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
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11	Lana María Parrilla (born July 15, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress who played roles in ''Series/SpinCity'', ''Series/TwentyFour'', ''Series/{{Windfall}}'', ''Series/{{Swingtown}}'' and ''Series/MiamiMedical''. From 2002-2003, she starred in the critically acclaimed but short-lived crime drama ''Series/Boomtown2002''.
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13	She is most famous for her role as The Evil Queen/Regina Mills in the ABC series ''Series/OnceUponATime'', for which she has received critical acclaim.
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15	Creator/CandiceAzzara is her aunt.
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18	!Notable Roles
19	* ''Film/{{Spiders}}'' (2000) as Marci Eyre
20	* ''Series/SpinCity'' (2000-01) as Angie Ordonez
21	* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' (2001) as Lieutenant Stephanie Donato
22	* ''Series/TheShield'' (2002) as Sedona Tellez
23	* ''Series/{{Boomtown\|2002}}'' (2002-03) as Teresa Ortiz
24	* ''Series/NYPDBlue'' (2004) as Officer Janet Grafton
25	* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' (2004) as Maile
26	* ''Series/TwentyFour'' (2005) as Sarah Gavin
27	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' (2007) as Greta
28	* ''Series/{{Swingtown}}'' (2008) as Trina Decker
29	* ''Series/CovertAffairs'' (2010) as Julia Suarez
30	* ''Series/{{Medium}}'' (2010) as Lydia Halstrom
31	* ''Series/{{The Defenders\|2010}}'' (2010) as Betty Johnson
32	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' (2011-18) as [[Characters/OnceUponATimeRegina Regina Mills / The Evil Queen]]
33	* ''Film/TheTaxCollector'' (2020) as Favi
34	* ''Series/WhyWomenKill'' (2021) as Rita Castillo
35	* ''Series/TheLincolnLawyer'' (2023) as Lisa Trammell
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37	!! Lana Parrilla provides examples of the following tropes:
38	* ActingForTwo: In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', after [[spoiler:Regina and the Evil Queen become separate in Season 5, she portrays both of them in Season 6, often in scenes together]].
39	* ActorInspiredHeroism: Regina's redemption in Season 2 was partly inspired by Lana pushing for Henry to become her MoralityPet.
40	* DawsonCasting: Portrays both adult and younger Regina in ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Young Regina's age is not specified, but it is generally placed at around 18, whereas Parrilla was in her 30s during filming.
41	* DirectedByCastMember: Directed "[[Recap/OnceUponATimeS7E17Chosen Chosen]]", Season 7 Episode 17, of ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
42	* FakeMixedRace: Her father is Puerto Rican and her mother is Italian, and Lana identifies as Latina. Regina on ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has a Latino father (played by Creator/TonyPerez) and white mother (played by Creator/BarbaraHershey).
43	* FriendshipOnTheSet:
44	** She's close friends with her on-screen sister Creator/RebeccaMader, and her on-screen love interest Sean Maguire. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they held a podcast together.
45	** She's also very close with her on-screen son Jared S Gilmore, and is considered an HonoraryAunt to him.
46	* IAmNotSpock: It's safe to say she will be best known as Regina Mills for a long time.
47	* ImportantHaircut: She recalls earlier in her career that she had trouble booking roles until she decided to cut her hair to a bob. She found that she was cast a lot more afterwards, including getting her breakout role as Regina Mills.
48	* LatinoIsBrown: She is Latina (of Puerto Rican and Italian descent), but early in her career was turned down in favor of actresses with the mestizo features Hollywood often favors for Latina characters. Even when cast in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the creators had to confirm that Regina is Latina like Lana.
49	* [[invoked]] LGBTFanbase: Lana has a large fanbase of lesbian and bisexual women going all the way back to her role as the AmbiguouslyBi Trina Decker on the short-lived ''Series/{{Swingtown}}''. This only increased after the airing of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where her character, Regina Mills, has loads of LesYay with nearly every female character on the show, particularly Emma. Lana being very supportive to shippers of Regina/Emma (also known as [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Swan Queen]]), has only endeared her more to her LGBT fans, especially in comparison to what many of them felt was her castmates' indifference.
50	* PromotedToOpeningTitles: She initially appeared as a guest star on ''Series/TwentyFour'' but got promoted six episodes into her season.
51	* StarMakingRole: Her role as Regina Mills.
52	* {{Typecasting}}: Her two biggest roles are as a female antagonist known for being both cruel and beautiful who later has a change of heart and learns the error of her ways; plus both characters' names start with "R".

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