Elsa

"The only way to ever truly be in control of your powers is to embrace them. Because this... This is who you are."

- Elsa to Emma

Queen Elsa, also known as the Ice Queen, is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She débuts in the twenty-second episode of the third season. She is portrayed by guest star Georgina Haig, and does not have a Storybrooke counterpart.

Elsa is based on the character of the same name from the Disney film, Frozen.

Trivia
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Etymology

 * The name "Elsa" is a short form of the name "Elisabeth", the German and Dutch form of the Biblical name "Elizabeth", itself derived from the name "Elisabet", the Greek form of the Hebrew name "Elisheva", which means "my God is an oath" or perhaps "my God is abundance".

Character Notes

 * Since returning to Arendelle, her powers seem to have extended to non ice powers, as she has shrunken the Jolly Roger as seen in Poor Unfortunate Soul.
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Production Notes

 * The casting call describes her as, "The Queen of Arendelle, this late-20s/early-30s beauty long struggled to control her “chilling” powers and even unleashed upon her town an eternal winter during her coronation. Ultimately, she realized that the key to controlling her powers is love — namely, her bond with sister Anna — and now she is aware of the threat she poses if she were to lose control of her magic again".
 * Elsa's iconic hairstyle includes most of Georgina Haig's real hair fitted with extensions to create the bottom half of the braid. It takes about two hours to assemble.
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Props Notes

 * Elsa's dress was redesigned for Season Four. The new dress is a different shade of blue and has a completely different design, even though the scene where she emerges from the barn in "A Tale of Two Sisters" takes place mere seconds after she emerged from the urn in Season Three.
 * Elsa's purple cape, used during the episode "Breaking Glass", was for technical reasons because her scenes were filmed on a green background screen, and because she wore a blue dress, which is too similar of a color to the background screen, that would have made her body completely invisible on the special-effects camera.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.