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"I only ever did what the heroes you so often speak of would do. I sacrificed everything for my family. And the only thing I ever got in return was pain."

- Victoria Belfrey to Lucy

Victoria Belfrey, also known as Rapunzel, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She débuts in the first episode of the seventh season. She is portrayed by starring cast member Gabrielle Anwar, and is the cursed counterpart of Rapunzel Tremaine.

Trivia

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Etymology

 * The last name "Belfrey" is a reference to the word "belfry", which is part of a bell tower or steeple in which bells are housed. Oddly, Victoria is the CEO of Belfrey Towers, and her original counterpart was also locked up in a tower.


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Production Notes

 * According to Gabrielle Anwar, Victoria is Lady Tremaine but in a contemporary world. She also added that "she's still using the same chronic manipulations and desperately unkind puppeteering of her stepchild in the shape of materialism and physical control of her life and her daughter's life".


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Disney

 * When Victoria finds out about Jacinda and Sabine's pop-up beignet shop, she calls an unseen character named Ralph and tells him to "wreck it", a reference to the film Wreck-It Ralph.

Popular Culture

 * The scene where Victoria enters the Belfrey Towers in "Hyperion Heights" is a homage to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, in which Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly enters the Runway building in a similar way.
 * Glenn Close's Cruella DeVil has a similar scene and entrance in the live-action film 101 Dalmatians.