Lisa Banes

Lisa Banes is one of the episodic actors of Once Upon a Time, portraying the role of Lady Tremaine.

Biography
Banes was born in 1955 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Banes studied acting at the Juilliard School in New York City.

On Broadway, Banes played Cassie in the Neil Simon play Rumors. In 1998, she played Margaret Lord in the musical High Society with Anna Kendrick. She has appeared on Broadway several times, most recently in in 2009's Accent on Youth, and the 2010 revival of Present Laughter.

On television, Banes had a regular roles as Doreen Morrison in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and as Mayor Anita Massengil on the Fox comedy series Son of the Beach. Banes also had recurring roles on The King of Queens as Carrie's boss Georgia Boone, Six Feet Under as Victoria and One Life to Live as Eve McBain. She also guest starred as a Trill doctor in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Equilibrium". Banes played Anne Kane in the 1985 TV miniseries Kane & Abel. Her other television credits include China Beach, Murder, She Wrote, The Practice, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, and NCIS. From 2010 to 2016, she had a recurring role as Ellen Collins on Royal Pains.

Banes starred as Mrs. Berry in the 1984 film The Hotel New Hampshire, Bonnie in the 1988 film Cocktail, Flora in the 2002 movie Dragonfly. In 2014 she appeared in David Fincher's Gone Girl as Marybeth Elliott, mother of Amy Elliott (Rosamund Pike).

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Gallery of photographic stills used to promote the actor.