Character: Astrid/Nova
Creators: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
Other Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Jared Gilmore, Raphael Sbarge, Robert Carlyle, Jamie Dornan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
MPAA Rating: Unknown
Centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real.
“We kept circling back to the idea of fairytales. The very first stories that you hear when you’re a kid. They’re full of magic and heroics and fear and joy. But we also found fairytales are full of all these unanswered questions. Like why is Grumpy grumpy? Why is Geppetto so lonely that he’d actually carve a little boy out of wood? And did the Evil Queen really try to kill Snow White simply because of vanity? With Once Upon A Time, we set out to explore those questions and not re-tell these stories but attempt to dig beneath what we all know and try to discover something new.”
- Adam Horowitz, Co-Creator/Executive Producer
Amy’s character is the love interest for Grumpy (one of the seven dwarfs), or Leroy, as he is known in Storybrook; she plays two characters- Astrid (in Storybrooke) and Nova (in fairy-tale land).
1×14 – “Dreamy”: Unlikely allies Mary Margaret and Leroy team together for a good cause to help the Storybrooke nuns sell their candles during the town’s Miner’s Day festival. But Leroy makes a promise to a nun, Astrid, that he may not be able to keep; and Emma looks into the mysterious disappearance of David’s wife, Kathryn. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Grumpy finds forbidden love with beautiful but clumsy fairy Nova.
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• Aired March 4, 2012 on ABC
• Jane Espenson has written several episodes & is listed as a consulting producer; has also written for Whedonverse shows such as BtVS and Dollhouse.
