Lana Parrilla

Lana Parrilla is the actress who portrays Regina Mills and the Evil Queen on Once Upon A Time. Biography After a short string of small roles in even smaller films, actress Lana Parrilla got her first big break in 2000 when she was hired as a regular on the ABC sitcom Spin City. While the gig only lasted one season, it was just the beginning of Parrilla's small-screen career, with a main-cast role on the two season crime drama Boomtown following in 2002. In 2005, Parrilla joined the cast of Fox's 24 for a supporting arc as a counter-terrorism agent that lasted for half of the fourth season. The following year, she starred opposite Luke Perry on NBC's Windfall, but the show was cut short after less than a season. Through 2007, she guest starred on the third season of Lost for two episodes portraying a character named Greta. In 2008, she was again cast as a series lead, this time on the CBS ensemble drama Swingtown. She also starred in the shortlived 2009 to 2010 CBS drama, Miami Medical and made guest appearances on shows such as Covert Affairs, Medium, The Defenders and Chase before being cast in 2011 as Regina Mills on the hit ABC show, Once Upon A Time.