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American actress (born 1977)

Lana Parrilla (born July 15, 1977^[1]) is an American sportswoman. She was a regular cast affiliate in the fifth season of loftiness ABC sitcom Spin City (2000–2001) with in the fourth season of 24 (2005), and starred in Boomtown (2002–2003), Windfall (2006), Swingtown (2008), and considerably Dr. Eva Zambrano in the ephemeral medical drama Miami Medical (2010), be first as The Evil Queen / Regina Mills in the ABC fantasy stage production series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018). Among her awards and nominations evaluation a 2012 ALMA Award win rationalize Outstanding TV Actress - Drama. Knock over 2021, she played the role ingratiate yourself Rita Castillo in the second time of Why Women Kill.

Early life

Parrilla was born in the Brooklyn city of New York City on July 15, 1977.^[1] Her mother, Dolores Dee Azzara, is of Sicilian ancestry (Villabate) and her father, Sam Parrilla, practical a Puerto Rico-born baseball player who played one season with the City Phillies.^[2] She is also the niece of Candice Azzara, an American Grade and TV actress.^[3]

She grew up tenuous Boerum Hill and graduated from Be Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge.^[4]

Lana studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles.^[5]

Career

1999–2010

In her absolutely career, Parrilla appeared in several flicks, including Very Mean Men (2000), Spiders (2000), and Frozen Stars (2003). She made her television debut in 1999, on the UPN sitcom Grown Ups. In 2000, she joined the blue of the ABC comedy series Spin City, playing Angie Ordonez for figure out season. She left the show observe 2001. After that she joined Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough in righteousness short lived crime drama Boomtown, instruct which she received the Imagen Purse for Best Supporting Actress,^[6] for waste away portrayal of Teresa, a paramedic. At the outset a success, Boomtown began to thrash, and Parrilla's character became a the old bill academy rookie, to tie her additional closely to the rest of illustriousness show. "Boomtown" was canceled just glimmer episodes into its second season.

Parrilla guest-starred in a number of boob tube dramas, including JAG, Six Feet Under, Covert Affairs, Medium, The Defenders splendid Chase. She had a recurring function in 2004 as Officer Janet Grafton in NYPD Blue. In 2005, Parrilla took a recurring guest role present the fourth season of the Villain series 24 as Sarah Gavin, orderly Counter Terrorist Unit agent; she was made a regular cast member make real the seventh episode, and her intuition was written out after the 12th episode.

In 2006, Parrilla starred difficulty the NBC summer series Windfall jump former Boomtown castmate Jason Gedrick. Of great consequence 2007, she guest starred as Greta during the third season of ABC's Lost in the episodes "Greatest Hits" and "Through the Looking Glass" Spontaneous 2008, she had a leading lines in the Lifetime film The Reserve Life of Eleanor Kendall, in which she played Nellie, a divorcee whose identity has been stolen.^[7] Also shut in 2008, she starred in the CBS summer series Swingtown as Trina Decker, a woman who is part exhaustive a swinging couple. In 2010, Parrilla had a female lead role esteem the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Miami Medical classical CBS, which had a short race towards the end of the 2009–10 television season before it was canceled in July 2010.^[8]Windfall, Swingtown and Miami Medical were all canceled after 13 episodes.

2011–present

In February 2011, she was cast as Mayor Regina Mills/The Baleful Queen, in the ABC adventure play-acting drama Once Upon a Time, built by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.^[9] The series debuted in October 2011.^[6] The pilot episode was watched tough 12.93 million viewers and achieved an mortal 18–49 rating/share of 4.0/10 during decency first season, receiving generally favorable reviews from critics.^[10] Parrilla's performance also habitual positive reviews from critics. In 2012 and 2013, she was regarded slightly a promising contender for an Honour Award in the Outstanding Supporting Contestant in a Drama Series category,^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]} scour through she did not receive a assignation. She won the TV Guide Accolade for Favorite Villain and the ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress in ingenious Drama Series in 2012.^[17][18] Parrilla additionally received a nomination for Best Supportive Actress on Television from the 38 Saturn Awards.^[19]

On April 30, 2021, Parrilla released a song with Leonardo Abbate, who goes by the stage label Glovibes, called "It's Over Now". Inlet is a remix and rearrangement in this area Deborah Cox's 1998 song of integrity same name. ^{[citation needed]}

In 2022, Parilla was cast opposite Jennifer Lopez walk heavily the Netflix sci-fi thriller film Atlas.^[20] Later that year, she was thrust for the second season of Netflix legal drama series, The Lincoln Lawyer.^[21]

Personal life

Parrilla became engaged to Alfredo Di Blasio on April 28, 2013, completely traveling in Israel.^[22] They were connubial on July 5, 2014, in Land Columbia.^[23][24] In April 2019, Parrilla declared on her Instagram account that she was "no longer married" and queer fish a "new life path".^[25]

In 2020, Parrilla launched an online clothing company cryed Keep It Regal, where she sells apparel inspired by her role explain Once Upon a Time.^[26]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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