Raphael Sbarge - “Once Upon A Time” Interview
by Abbie Bernstien

Raphael Sbarge began his acting career at the age of four in his native New York, appearing on several episodes of SESAME STREET. He’s been on Broadway and off-Broadway in a myriad of plays. His first feature film was the independent ABUSE, where he played a minor involved with an adult man. “I was sixteen, in high school,” he recalls.

Since then, Sbarge has been in a host of movies large and small, including RISKY BUSINESS and INDEPENDENCE DAY, starred in the TV series BETTER DAYS and THE GUARDIAN and had guest and recurring roles on a wide range of shows including PROFILER, 24, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, PRISON BREAK and DEXTER.

However, Sbarge has never had a role like his series regular gig on ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME. Sbarge plays Storybrooke, Maine’s resident psychiatrist, Dr. Archie Hopper - who doesn’t remember his former life in Fairytale Land as Jiminy Cricket, who asked a Blue Fairy to turn him into an insect to atone for the backfiring of a spell he tried to cast on his larcenous con artist parents. Of course, nobody else has had a role like this, either.
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