the evil queen has been portrayed live by jane curtin
 in snow white  in the brothers grimm tale the evil queen is a very beautiful but proud and arrogant woman who marries the king after the death of his first wife the mother of snow white
 after years of failing to kill snow white the evil queen eventually casts the dark curse provided by her mentor rumplestiltskin sending all the fairytale characters to the real world and erasing their true memories