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Cecelia is a character on ABC's Once Upon a Time. She débuts, with her only appearance, in the ninth episode of the seventh season. She is portrayed by guest star Cindy Luna.
History
Cecelia is Ella's mother. The identity of Ella's birth father is unknown, however, Cecelia eventually marries a man who becomes the only father her daughter ever knows. On her wedding day to her future husband, she gives him a locket that matches her own, and both lockets glow as a symbol of their love for each other so they can always find each other. When Ella is still small, Cecelia's heart becomes cursed and she runs away to New Wonderland in order to protect her loved ones. There, she meets Alice at a tea party and tells her about having to leave her family. Her husband uses his locket to track her to that realm's Infinite Maze, but before he can go searching for her, his locket stops glowing, causing him to believe she has stopped loving him. In reality, Cecelia and Alice are attacked by a Jabberwock at the tea party, where Cecelia fights valiantly but she is killed by the beast, leaving Alice as the sole survivor to slay it. Ella grows up assuming her mother abandoned her and her father, which causes her to be disillusioned about true love and happy endings, but she eventually learns the truth from Alice about her mother's reasons for leaving them. ("Pretty in Blue")
Family
| Unknown | Cecelia † | Marcus Tremaine † | Lady TremaineVictoria Belfrey | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CinderellaJacinda | Henry Mills | DrizellaIvy Belfrey | Anastasia † | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lucy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes:
- Solid lines denote blood relationships
- Dashed lines denote marriage relationships that result in offspring
- † denotes the deceased
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
| "Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Mentioned | Appears | Absent | Absent |
| "A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |