Lana Parrilla
| Lana Parrilla | |
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 Parilla at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2011 |
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| Born | July 15, 1977 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Lana Parrilla (born July 15, 1977) is an American actress, best known for her roles on Spin City, 24, Boomtown and Miami Medical. She currently stars as The Evil Queen/Regina Mills in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.
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[edit] Early life
Parrilla was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Sam Parrilla, a Puerto Rican professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies in the early 1970s.[1]
[edit] Career
She had roles in a few movies, including Very Mean Men (2000), Spiders (2000), Frozen Stars (2003) and Replicant. She was first noticed in the mainstream when she joined the cast of Spin City in 2000, playing Angie Ordonez for one season.
After this, she joined Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough in the 2002 series Boomtown, for which she received the Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress,[1] in which she played Teresa, a paramedic. Initially a success, Boomtown began to struggle, and Lana's character became a police academy rookie, so as to tie her more closely to the rest of the show. That program was cancelled just two episodes into its second season.
Parrilla guest-starred in shows such as JAG, NYPD Blue and Six Feet Under. In 2005, Parrilla took a recurring guest role on the fourth season of 24 as Sarah Gavin, a Counter Terrorist Unit agent. After just six episodes, Lana was promoted to a main cast member, but in the thirteenth episode, she was written out after her character tried to blackmail a promotion from temporary CTU head Michelle Dessler (Reiko Aylesworth}.
In 2006, Parrilla starred in the NBC summer series Windfall alongside Luke Perry, fellow former 24 cast member Sarah Wynter, and Parilla's former Boomtown castmate Jason Gedrick.
In 2007, Parrilla guest starred as a character called Greta in the third season episodes of ABC's Lost, "Greatest Hits" and "Through the Looking Glass"
In 2008, she starred on the Lifetime movie The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall, in which she played Nellie, a divorcee whose identity has been stolen.[2]
In June 2008, she starred in the CBS summer series Swingtown as Trina Decker, a woman who is part of a swinging couple.
She was also part of the American TV-series Prison Break, she played an agent for the company.
In 2010, Parrilla starred in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Miami Medical on CBS, which had a short run towards the end of the 2009-10 television season before being canceled in July 2010. From 2010 to 2011 she made many guest appearances of TV shows, such as Covert Affairs, Medium, The Defenders and Chase.
Parrilla stars as The Evil Queen/Regina Mills in the ABC adventure fantasy television series, Once Upon a Time, which debuted in October 2011.[1]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2000 | Very Mean Men | Teresa | |
| Spiders | Marci Eyre | ||
| 2001 | Replicant | Marci | uncredited |
| 2003 | Frozen Stars | Lisa Vasquez | |
| 2005 | One Last Ride | Antoinette | |
| 2008 | The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall | Nellie |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Grown Ups | Waitress | 2 episodes |
| 2000–2001 | Spin City | Angie Ordonez | 21 episodes; Main cast |
| 2002 | JAG | Lt. Stephanie Donato | 1 episode |
| The Shield | Sedona Tellez | 1 episode | |
| 2002-2003 | Boomtown | Teresa Ortiz | 24 episodes; Main cast |
| 2004 | NYPD Blue | Officer Janet Grafton | 3 episodes |
| Six Feet Under | Maile | 2 episodes | |
| 2005 | 24 | Sarah Gavin | 12 episodes; Recurring, later bumped up to Main cast |
| 2006 | Windfall | Nina Schaefer | 13 episodes; Main cast |
| Lost | Greta | 2 episodes | |
| 2008 | Swingtown | Trina Decker | 13 episodes
Nominated - ALMA Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series |
| 2010 | Miami Medical | Dr. Eva Zambrano | 13 episodes; Main cast |
| Covert Affairs | Julia Suarez | 1 episode | |
| Medium | Lydia Halstrom | 1 episode | |
| The Defenders | Betty | 1 episode | |
| 2011 | Chase | Isabella | 1 episode |
| 2011–present | Once Upon a Time | The Evil Queen/Regina Mills | TV series; Main cast |
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