Zelena (Once Upon a Time)
Zelena, also known as the Wicked Witch of the West and cursed as Kelly West in the seventh season, is a fictional character in ABC's television series "Once Upon a Time". She is portrayed by Rebecca Mader and was first introduced in the second half of the third season. After making recurring appearances in both the third and fourth seasons, Mader was promoted to series regular for the fifth and sixth seasons. She returned as a recurring guest star in the seventh season.
Zelena (Once Upon a Time)
Years after the Final Battle, Zelena continues to raise Robin in Storybrooke who is now 18 years old and has been practicing magic but Zelena forbids her from doing so, after an argument between them Robin disappears and Zelena travels to the New Enchanted Forest to tell Regina. Wish Realm Hook then offers to help Zelena find Robin when they discover it was Mother Gothel who took her, afterwards they find Robin with Gothel and Madame Leota. Robin tells Zelena she ran away and wants to stay with Gothel and for her to leave, Hook then convinces Zelena to don’t walk away from her daughter and to fight for her, Zelena then tries to save Robin when Gothel tries to use her a sacrifice to revive Leota but Robin saves her. Robin then decides to give up using magic to train to use a bow like her father and gives her magic which is in the resurrection amulet to Zelena. Eight years later, Zelena and Robin continue to live in the New Enchanted Forest on a farm, when Regina arrives to tell them about Drizella being freed by Gothel. Zelena reveals the others who helped her are powerful witches who are part of a coven called "The Coven of the Eight", but Regina thinks they are stronger than them and asks her for her help, to which Zelena agrees. When Regina, Zelena, Ella, Hook, and Jack arrive to stop Gothel, Drizella and the witches from casting the curse they find out that they’ve poisoned Henry and they only way to save him is to cast the curse to send him to a land without magic to which Regina (who is the only who can cast it) does. Zelena is sent to Hyperion Heights with everyone from the New Enchanted Forest under the new name "Kelly West", who owns the bar with her sister Roni (who is Regina) but after Roni ruins her daughter’s life, she is later pushed out of the neighborhood by Victoria Belfry and moves to San Francisco and becomes a spin instructor. After Regina is awakened by Drizella, she travels to San Francisco with Henry to bring Zelena back, who still hates and refuses to speak to her. Regina then gives her a drink with a potion mix in (that Drizella gave her) to give her memories back and as Zelena agrees to return to Seattle with her, she is confused with what to do as she is getting married. Zelena still agrees to return to Seattle with Regina and they start a plan to save both Henry and Lucy. Zelena then receives messages from her fiancé Chad but ignores them as she does not know what to say to him yet and continues to help Regina find a way to cure Henry’s heart and to break the curse along with dealing with Baron Samdi who is Dr. Facilier, and is revealed to be awake. After her daughter Robin cursed as Margot returns home Zelena and her start to have problems as she wants to know what he mother isn’t telling her but after a talk with Tilly, Margot understands her mother’s position and will wait when she’s ready to tell the truth but Zelena is then given a chocolate heart shape box by the "Candy Killer", meaning she’s the next witch target. It’s revealed that the killer is Nick Branson who is also Jack, but is revealed to Hansel, and Zelena actually knows him, Zelena also tells Regina that when she was cursed as Kelly, she was happy and loved and misses Chad. In the past Zelena met the Hilda, the "Gingerbread Witch", in Oz who had captured Hansel and Gretel and was feeding them to get them ready to eat for her Harvest Moon feast, as Zelena tried to kick her out of Oz the witch proved to a strong foe and damaged Zelena’s necklace and weakened her. As she passed out she was taken in by a kind man named Ivo who was blind and is Hansel and Gretel’s father, after spending some time with him Zelena goes back to save Hansel and Gretel and steal the Gingerbread Witch’s eyesight to give to Ivo but the children escaped already and told their father about her and after he rejects her she throws the eyesight bottle in the fire. Hansel then decides to fight her with a knife but she burns his arms with fire and leaves. In the present, Zelena visits Weaver and asks for help but is given her old necklace to try and fight back as the witch she was but is tired of her old ways and wants to be done with paying for her past sins. Nick kidnaps Zelena’s fiancé, Chad, to lure Zelena to him and after a fight, Zelena manages to stop him and save Chad. Zelena is sad because she believes Chad shouldn’t have to pay for her past problems and not be involved in this should leave but he tells her he loves her no matter what. After Nick is arrested, Zelena tells Regina that she dosen’t know what to do as Chad wants her to come back to San Francisco but she wants to stay and help Regina break the curse but Regina tells her she deserves to be happy and gives her, her blessing to go back with Chad. Zelena also tells Margot about going back and asks if she wants to come but Margot decides to stay in Hyperion Heights to be with Tilly.