Evangeline Lilly

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Evangeline Lilly
Lilly at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Nicole Evangeline Lilly

(1979-08-03) August 3, 1979 (age 44)
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Occupations
  • Actress
  • author
Years active2002–present
Spouse
Murray Hone
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(m. 2003; div. 2004)​
Children2

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979)[1][2] is a Canadian actress and author. She came to prominence for her starring role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost (2004–10), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.[3] She is also known for her roles as Connie James in The Hurt Locker (2008), Bailey Tallet in Real Steel (2011), Tauriel in The Hobbit film series, and Hope van Dyne/Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

Early life

Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta. She was raised in British Columbia by her mother and her father, a produce manager.[1][4][5]

Lilly graduated from W. J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia, where she played soccer and was vice-president of the student council.[6] While in college, she worked as a waitress, did "oil changes and grease jobs on big rig trucks", and worked as a flight attendant for Royal Airlines to pay for her tuition.[6][7][8] She grew up Christian and her faith influenced her decision to take part in a three-week mission trip to the Philippines when she was 18.[7][9] Her interest in humanitarian causes and global development led her to major in International Relations at the University of British Columbia.[10]

Career

Television

Lilly's acting career began when she was discovered by a Ford Modeling Agency agent while walking the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia.[11] She took the agent's business card but did not immediately pursue acting. She eventually called and the agency landed her several roles in commercials and non-speaking parts in the TV shows Smallville and Kingdom Hospital.[10][12][13]

Lilly at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

Lilly was encouraged to audition for Lost by a friend and she did not expect to get cast. As the secrecy campaign prevented the auditioning actors from accessing the full script, forcing them to read short scenes and only know the basic premise of people surviving a plane crash on a tropical island – which reminded Lilly of The Blue Lagoon – she thought Lost would "at best be a mediocre TV show".[14] Around 75 women auditioned for the part of Kate Austen. Writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof said that he and executive producer and co-creator J. J. Abrams "were fast-forwarding through a tape, and he saw her and said, 'That's the girl.'"[15][16] The character almost had to be recast, as Lilly had trouble acquiring a work visa to enter the United States.[17] Her application was finally accepted after nearly 20 tries and she arrived in Hawaii for filming one day late.[17]

Lost ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2010.[18] It was one of the top shows on ABC's primetime schedule during its run, won a Golden Globe and 11 Prime Time Emmy Awards including best drama in 2005, and was ranked the top-rated TV show of the decade by IMDb.[19] Lilly appeared in 108 of the show's 121 episodes, and her character, Kate Austen, was the show's female lead. Entertainment Weekly voted Lilly one of its "Breakout Stars of 2004."[20] In 2006, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Lead Actress-Drama.[21] Robert Bianco of USA Today praised Lilly's performance in the episode "Eggtown", saying that it was almost worthy of a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.[22] In 2007, Lilly's portrayal was voted #1 Sexiest Woman on Television by TV Guide and made FHM's Top Sexiest.[23] Evangeline was voted one of People Magazine's '50 Most Beautiful People'. After shooting the final episode of Lost, Lilly said she was considering taking a break from acting to focus on her charity and humanitarian efforts.[24] She told Vulture, "I consider acting a day job — it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all."[25] She says she uses her high-profile roles to further her humanitarian efforts, not to achieve stardom.[26]

Film

In 2008, Lilly appeared in the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker.[27] She and the rest of the cast won the Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble. Lilly followed this role with a leading part in psychological thriller film Afterwards.[28] In 2010, Lilly stated her intention to focus on children's book writing[29] and on feature film roles.[30][31]

On May 11, 2010, Lilly announced on The View that she places writing and being a mother as top priorities, but she likes acting as a day job and she will continue acting when possible.[32] In 2011, she appeared as Bailey Tallet in Real Steel.[33] Despite having turned down a number of film offers, she traveled to Los Angeles to get the part after director Shawn Levy sent her the script.[34] Levy said: "She's magnificent to look at, she's soulful, and she's sexy. I needed someone who you believed had grown up in a man's world. Bailey needed to have a strength and a toughness that was not at the expense of her being womanly."[35]

In 2012, Lilly was cast as the Mirkwood elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.[36][37] The character, which does not appear in the original book by Tolkien, was created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as the head of the Elven guard who wields a bow and two daggers as weapons. Lilly, who had been a fan of Tolkien's books since she was 13,[38] underwent training for swordplay and archery, as well as in the Elvish language for the role.[38][39] In 2015, Lilly played Hope van Dyne in the superhero film Ant-Man.[40][41] In October of the same year, it was announced that Lilly would reprise her role in the sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Marvel's first movie to feature a female hero in the title.[42]

Literature

Lilly holding a copy of her children's book, The Squickerwonkers, at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con

In June 2010, Lilly announced on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that she would be writing a children's book, reciting some of the story from the book to Ferguson on the show.[43]

On July 18, 2013, Lilly debuted the book, titled The Squickerwonkers. The release event was held at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, where she attended a book signing for the work in addition to providing a reading performance. Lilly has stated that the idea for the book first came to her when she was 14 years old. The foreword to the book was written by director Peter Jackson. She described the work as "a graphic book series designed for children", stating that the book is about a young girl who joins a group of characters she described as "this family, the Squickerwonkers, and they're strange outcasts who all have very particular vices".

Lilly has stated that future books will each reveal a new Squickerwonker character and unique vice, which will eventually become the undoing of the character.[44] The illustrator for the book is Johnny Fraser-Allen of Weta Workshop, a New Zealand-based concept design firm that worked on films including The Hobbit. Lilly stated that the goal was to "make a book that we would like to have read as children and that we would still enjoy as adults today".[45]

Personal life

On December 20, 2006, an electrical problem set fire to her house in Kailua, Hawaii, destroying the house and all of her possessions while she was on the set of Lost.[46] Though she lost all of her belongings, she said that the fire "was almost liberating, I'm in no hurry to clutter up my life again".[47]

Lilly was married to Canadian Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004.[48] She is in a long term relationship with Norman Kali. Lilly gave birth to their first child, a son named Kahekili (Hawaiian for "the thunder"), on May 21, 2011.[49] She gave birth to a daughter in October 2015.[citation needed]

Lilly works with non-profits such as the GO Campaign.[24] In 2009, Lilly auctioned off custom lingerie in support of Task Brasil, "a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the lost street children of Brazil by providing them secure housing".[50] In 2010, she auctioned off three lunches in Vancouver, Honolulu, and Los Angeles to help widows and orphans in Rwanda, a country Lilly has made numerous trips to as part of her charity work.[51] In 2012 Lilly auctioned off a Hawaiian hike to raise money for the Sierra Club.[52]

Lilly received wide-scale media attention for her beliefs regarding feminism expressed in a 2014 interview with The Huffington Post: "I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man."[53][54][55]

Filmography

Lilly at 60th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 21, 2008

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Stealing Sinatra Model in Commercial Uncredited[citation needed]
The Lizzie McGuire Movie Police Officer
Freddy vs. Jason School Student Next to Locker Uncredited[12]
2004 White Chicks Party Guest Uncredited[citation needed]
2005 The Long Weekend Simone
2008 The Hurt Locker Connie James
Afterwards Claire French title: Et après
2011 Real Steel Bailey Tallet
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Tauriel
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015 Ant-Man Hope van Dyne
2017 Little Evil Samantha Bloom
2018 Avengers: Infinity War Hope Van Dyne / Wasp Post-production
Ant-Man and the Wasp Hope Van Dyne / Wasp Post-production
2019 Untitled Avengers film Hope Van Dyne / Wasp Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2001–04 Smallville Extra 4 episodes; uncredited[12]
2003–04 Tru Calling Uncredited[12]
2004 Kingdom Hospital Benton's Girlfriend Episode: "Heartless"
2004–10 Lost Kate Austen Main role (108 episodes)

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
2004 Satellite Awards Best Actress – Television Series Drama Lost Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Nominated
2005 Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Won
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress Drama Nominated
Choice TV: Female Breakout Star Nominated
Choice TV: Chemistry (shared with Matthew Fox) Nominated
2006 National Television Awards Most Popular Actress Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress Drama Nominated
Choice TV: Chemistry (shared with Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway) Nominated
2007 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Television Series Drama Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress Drama Nominated
2008 Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice TV Actress Drama Nominated
2009 Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Nominated
2010 Teen Choice Award Choice TV Actress Fantasy/Sci-Fi Nominated
Gotham Awards Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast The Hurt Locker Won
Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
2014 MTV Movie Awards MTV Movie Award for Best Fight The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actress in an Action Movie Nominated
Empire Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Female Buttkicker Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
2015 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Female Action Star The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Ant-Man Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Choice Summer Movie Star: Female Nominated

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