Tamara

Tamara is a recurring character on Once Upon a Time.

Early Life
In Hong Kong, Tamara is seen in the waiting room of the Dragon when her turn comes to see him. When she stands up, she drops her phone, and August W. Booth, who's also there to see the Dragon, hands it back to her. Later, Tamara encounters August at a bar where she tells him that she went to see the Dragon because she has cancer and had to give up a picture of her and her grandmother, as well as later pay a large sum of money. When Tamara receives a call and leaves to answer it privately, August sees the money in her purse and steals it so that he can use it to cure himself of his own affliction. Tamara chases him through the streets but he makes it to the Dragon and receives a potion that is to cure him. Tamara sees this potion and chases August once more. He falls into an alley and Tamara robs him of the potion. Tamara later revisits the Dragon and tells him that the substance of the potion matches no element found on Earth and she believes it to be magical. When the Dragon begins to reveal his "true form" and floats towards her in an array of smoke, Tamara takes out a special taser and electrocutes him, which kills him almost instantly. Later, Tamara is seen watching as August talks to Neal Cassidy in New York City, and when the former drives away on his motorcycle, she "accidentally" bumps into Neal which causes her coffee to spill all over her. Neal offers her his scarf to cover the stain as she has no time to change, and she tells him that it's perfect, thanking her. The two go on to become engaged.

Season 2
When an Outsider crashes into the town of Storybrooke, Maine, the residents of said town begin going through his cell phone. They discover that his name is Greg Mendell and that he's completely normal. Soon enough, someone rings his cell, given the name of simply "Her" (Tamara), and the people panic. Soon enough, she stops ringing, and Greg's phone is returned to him after his operation. He then uses it to call "Her" and tells her that she's not going to believe what he saw, meaning magic. Greg calls "Her" (Tamara) yet again after he films with his cell phone Regina making things fly around the room with magic, thus proving it exists. He tells her that he won't be coming home for a while as he wants to stick around town an investigate.

Captain Hook shows up in New York and stabs Mr. Gold with his hook, which turns out to have been poisoned, meaning that Gold has only a matter of hours to live. He needs to be taken to Storybrooke fast so that they can cure him using magic, and Neal offers t sail his father, Emma and Henry there via Hook's pirate ship, which he used to get to Manhattan. Outside, Emma sees that Neal plans on using a car and wonders why, he explains that he'll need it to drive them to the ship. She asks him if its his, implying he may have stolen it, but he states that it's borrowed. Tamara soon approaches Neal and Emma, introducing herself to the latter, and Neal tells the blonde that she's his fiancée, to whom the car belongs. Emma is completely taken aback.

Emma is surprised to discover that Neal has invited his fiancée Tamara to stay in Storybrooke, her not knowing who he really is or where he's really from. When she arrives, she shares bagels with Neal, Emma and Henry, until the latter two leave and Neal uses the book of fairytales to explain to Tamara that his real name is Baelfire and he comes from a place called the Enchanted Forest. Tamara initially doesn't believe this, thinking that Emma wants Neal back now that he knows Henry's he's son, noting how reluctant Neal was to tell the story of how they met. Tamara is later seen at Granny's Diner where she overhears Mary Margaret tell Emma and Marco that August is in a trailer in the woods. Tamara makes her way into the town's forest and discovers the trailer, where she finds a completely wooden August W. Booth. She tells him that she still has some of the Dragon's potion that could stop his wooden affliction in her apartment in New York, but that he can only have it if he promises never to return to Storybrooke. August takes this deal and uses Tamara's car to leave town, however, upon seeing the photograph of her and her grandmother, August turns around, realizing that Tamara killed the Dragon. He makes his way to the sheriff's station in search of Emma and calls her cell, however, Tamara cuts off the call before he can reveal anything. August vows to expose Tamara to the town for someone who wants to take the magic from Storybrooke, and so she takes out her magical taser and electrocutes him, causing his death. He stumbles outside where he is found by the town's residents. He tries to warn Emma of Tamara, but passes before he is able to. Tamara nonchalantly joins the crowd and witnesses August be turned back into a little boy by Mother Superior, who viewed his final act as selfless, brave and true, however, Pinocchio does not remember the warning he tried to give. Later, when Neal is in the shower, Tamara visits Greg down the hall and sleeps with him, revealing herself to be "Her" from his cellphone.

Tamara meets Greg in his room at Granny's Bed & Breakfast where he's mapped out all of the places in town where he's seen magic, saying the town's lousy at being discrete. He tells her to go to avoid Neal suspecting anything, but Tamara assures him that he won't, before asking Greg if he's had any luck in finding his father. Greg has not but his girlfriend promises that they won't leave town without him. Greg proceeds to ask about "the package" and Tamara says that it's right outside town. He wonders if its stable and she assures him of this. She says that she'll drive it into town the following night before leaving the room. The next night, Greg is seen waiting at the town line as Tamara pulls up beside him with a trailer attached to her car. She tells him that they shan't have to do much work as if there's anyone who you can count on to do your dirty work - it's a pirate. She opens the container and Captain Hook is revealed to be inside the package.

Greg and Tamara keep Hook tied up at the Storybrooke clock tower where they ask him to do a job for them. He refuses, having killed Rumplestiltskin and fulfilled his life's purpose, but they soon show him that Mr. Gold is alive, and so he agrees to help the two of them manipulate Regina. Later, Tamara runs into Emma at Granny's Diner and the blonde sees a list in the girl's purse of the town's residents and their fairytale identities, and when Tamara says she's trustworthy, Emma uses her "superpower" to determine that she's lying. This leads Emma to believe that she's the "she" that August warned them about, and begins to stalk Tamara alongside Henry. When Neal catches them in his and Tamara's room at the B&B, the two of them agree to stop investigating her. Later, after Regina betrays Hook, she is met in the library by he, Tamara and Greg, not being able to use magic against them due the the wristband that Hook gave her, containing the strongest metals and machinery known to man that are currently counteracting every magical fiber of her being. When Greg states that he's a man on a mission, Regina presumes that it is to find his father, but Greg reveals this to not be true, refusing to tell Regina what their real aim is. He then gives the order for Tamara to bag Regina, and so his girlfriend places a bag over Regina's head and kidnaps her.

Trivia

 * Her casting call describes her as "African American, Late 20s to mid 30s. She's beautiful, artistic, relaxed, friendly, charming and smart. She's also ambitious, fearless and a born leader, and she won't stop until she gets what she wants".

Gallery
Gallery of photographic stills released to promote the character.