"Once Upon a Time": Dania Ramirez, Gabrielle Anwar Cast as New Season 7 Regulars; Mekia Cox, Rose Reynolds & Adelaide Kane to Recur
by Denise Petski
July 6, 2017


ABC’s "Once Upon a Time" is building out its cast for the upcoming seventh season.

"Devious Maids" alum Dania Ramirez and Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice) are set as series regulars, and Mekia Cox (Chicago Med), Rose Reynolds (Wasted) and "Reign‘s" Adelaide Kane have signed on for recurring roles in the fantasy drama.

Character details are being kept under wraps for now, so stay tuned.





The new additions follow the exodus of original cast members Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Emilie de Ravin, Jared S. Gilmore, Jennifer Morrison and Rebecca Mader at the end of Season 6, and set the stage for the planned “reset” of Season 7.

The new season will focus on returning cast members Lana Parrilla, Robert Carlyle and Colin O’Donoghue, along with Andrew J. West, who was introduced in the Season 6 finale.

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Dania Ramirez is Playing 'New' Cinderella
by Michael Ausiello
July 15, 2017


"Once Upon a Time" is telling another Cinderella story.

At the D23 Expo in Anaheim on Saturday, exec producer Eddy Kitsis revealed that new cast member Dania Ramirez will be playing a new version of the iconic Disney heroine in the ABC drama’s forthcoming seventh season. Additionally, as many fans had surmised, she will indeed be Adult Henry’s (Andrew J. West) wife and baby mama.



Per Kitsis, the present-day story will be set in Seattle, while flashbacks will take viewers into the Enchanted Forest — but things will be a little different.

“Henry is in a new Enchanted Forest, with characters that we have seen before but with different tales,” the EP teased. (Cinderella was previously played by Jessy Schram.)



Storybrooke, however, is not out of the picture completely. Kitsis shared that “we may see it a few times throughout the year,” beginning, apparently, in the season premiere, when Jared Gilmore returns as Young Henry.

“We’re going to follow him as he leaves home,” Kitsis shared, adding that Henry “wants to find his own story.”

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