LANA PARRILLA the 34-Year-Old Actress Breaks out As Not One but TWO BAD GIRL CHARACTERS on the New
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ALL ACCESS TV GET TO KNOW... LANA PARRILLA The 34-year-old actress breaks out as not one but TWO BADGIRL CHARACTERS on the new show, Once Upon a Time. By Lee Hernandez Garcia plays the nanny to Dexter’s son, Harrison. Q WHAT ARE YOUR LATINA ROOTS? when they’re casting a Latino, it’s very I’m half–Puerto Rican and half- typecast. Then one day I said, “I’m oing Sicilian. My father was Puerto Rican to cut my hair to see what other doors [Major League Baseball player Sam will open.” Four days later I booked AIMEE Parrilla]. My parents separated when the lead role on an NBC show [2006’s I was younger, but I was raised with both Windfall]. I became more versatile. GARCIA families. I ate all the arroz con gandules Five things the and chuletas and pernil and, on my Q DID YOU READ FAIRY TALES AS Dexter star is mother’s side, all the Italian cuisine. A CHILD? thankful for this I loved Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella Thanksgiving. Q WHEN PEOPLE FIRST MEET was a beautiful story, but I never YOU, DO THEY THINK wanted to be her. I’ve always liked YOU’RE LATINA? villains and fi nd them much 1. People always guess I’m more interesting. MY FITNESS “Good health is Italian. Maybe it’s because number one.” I don’t have the voluptuous Q WHAT IS YOUR DREAM fi gure of a Puerto Rican. ROLE IN HOLLYWOOD? 2. Then again, Italians are I hope that one day I can MY FAMILY quite voluptuous as well. achieve as much as Glenn AND FRIENDS [Laughs.] Close. She plays these really “They’re my rock. Their unconditional love complex characters but then and support is the Q DO YOU SPEAK she also has this sweet, only reason I can make SPANISH? beautiful side and is it through this crazy Esai Morales is a also very sexy in her business.” dear friend of mine own way. and I speak with him 3. MY SMARTS every once in On the show, Parrilla “My college degree a while. He throws plays two parallel comes in handy every the Puerto Rican characters: the Evil single day and I am Queen to Ginnifer my way! Goodwin’s Snow very grateful for my White, and the not- education.” so-friendly mayor of DO YOU GET the fi ctional town of Q Storybrooke, Maine. 4. OFFERED A MY CAREER LOT OF LATINA “I love what I do! My dad ROLES? always said, ‘Do what you I played Latina love and you’ll never in the early work a day in your life.’ He was right. I’m working stages of my on one of the best shows career and on television.” everyone would say, 5. “You don’t look CHOCOLATE Latina enough.” “I don’t do drugs, but I do chocolate!” In this industry, PHOTOGRAPHS: J SQUARED PHOTOGRAPHY; COURTESY OF ABC; JASON MERRITTGETTY IMAGES. 84LATINA.COMNOVEMBER .