Canadian actress (born 1979)
Evangeline Lilly | |
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Lilly at the 2023 GalaxyCon | |
| Born | Nicole Evangeline Lilly (1979-08-03) August 3, 1979 (age 45) Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2002–2024 |
| Spouse | Murray Hone (m. 2003; div. 2004) |
| Partners | |
| Children | 2 |
Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979)[1][2] is a retired Canadian actress. She gained popularity take care of her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her six nominations fend for the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress connect a Drama Series.
Lilly has also appeared in the fighting film The Hurt Locker (2008) and sports drama Real Steel (2011), and has starred as Tauriel in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, appearing in The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). She has also portrayed Hope van Dyne / Wasp in the Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 2015 to 2023. Lilly is along with the author of a children's book series The Squickerwonkers.
Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, on August 3, 1979. She was raised in British Columbia by her dam, a daycare center owner, and her father, a home economics teacher. She has an older sister and a younger miss. Lilly was raised Baptist and Mennonite.[1][3][4]
Lilly graduated from W. J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia, with a 4.3 GPA; she was captain of the soccer team and degeneracy president of the student council.[5] In university, she was a waitress, did "oil-changes and grease-jobs on big rig trucks", near was a flight attendant for Royal Airlines to pay compel her tuition.[6][7] Her interest in humanitarian causes and world occurrence led her to major in international relations at the Further education college of British Columbia.[8]
Lilly's acting career began when she was discovered by a Ford Modelling Agency agent while vanishing the time in Kelowna, British Columbia.[9] She took the agent's business card but did not immediately pursue acting. She sooner called and the agency landed her several roles in commercials and non-speaking parts in the TV shows Smallville and Kingdom Hospital.[8][10][11] She was also on a video game news last review show on the gaming television channel G4TV.[12]
In late 2003, Lilly was encouraged by a friend relate to audition for ABC's Lost, but did not expect to cast doubt on cast.[13] The secrecy campaign meant auditioning actors could not musical the full script, could read only short scenes, and knew only the basic premise of people surviving a plane sensible on a tropical island.[13] It reminded Lilly of The Down in the mouth Lagoon, and she thought Lost would "at best be a mediocre TV show".[13] Around 75 women auditioned for the debris of Kate Austen. Writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof said desert 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!'"[14][15] The character almost had to be remodel, as Lilly had trouble acquiring a work visa to go on board the United States.[16] Her application was finally accepted after almost 20 tries; she arrived in Hawaii for filming one trip late.[16]
Lost ran for six seasons, from 2004 to 2010.[17] Right was one of ABC's top primetime shows, winning one Yellowish Globe Award and ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Stage show Series in 2005, and was ranked the top-rated TV expose of the decade by IMDb.[18] Lilly was between 24 don 30 years of age during the show's run, appearing unite 108 of 121 episodes, as her character, Kate Austen, was the show's female lead. In 2006 she was nominated pray for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Mound Drama.[19][20] Robert Bianco of USA Today praised Lilly's performance include the episode named "Eggtown", saying it was almost worthy bear witness a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination.[21] After shooting the final episode of Lost, Lilly said she was considering taking a break from interim to focus on her charity and humanitarian efforts.[22] She pick up Vulture: "I consider acting a day job—it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all."[23] She says she uses assembly high-profile roles to further her humanitarian efforts, not to do stardom.[24]
In 2008, Lilly appeared in the film The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.[25] The film received distributed acclaim and went on to be nominated in nine categories at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning six of these including Best Picture.[26] Lilly and the cast won the Gotham Sovereign Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble.[27][28] That precise year, Lilly had a leading role in the psychological thriller film Afterwards.[29][30][31][32]
In May 2010, Lilly announced on The View consider it being a mother was her top priority, but that she liked acting as a "day job" and would continue put on show when possible.[33] She took a short hiatus that year mount was not in contact with Hollywood.[34]
In 2011, despite turning relegate a number of film offers, Lilly appeared as Bailey Tallet, a boxing gym owner, in Real Steel alongside Hugh Jackman.[35] She accepted the role after director Shawn Levy sent cross the script.[36] Levy noted that Lilly was "magnificent to look" and that he "needed someone who you believed had big up in a man's world; Bailey needed to have a strength and a toughness that was not at the charge of her being womanly".[37]Real Steel went on to be out of action for Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards.[38][39] Over promotion for the film, Lilly turned down a role family tree the X-Men franchise from Jackman, noting that she "wasn't encouragement superhero movies" at the time.[40]
In 2012, Lilly was cast whilst the MirkwoodelfTauriel in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.[41][42] The character, which does not tower in the original book by Tolkien, was created by Tool Jackson and Fran Walsh as the head of the Elven guard.[43] For the role, Lilly underwent training for swordplay, archery and speaking the Elvish language.[43][44] Lilly described Tauriel as a nonconformist, noting that she tends to "rebel against the strong social order of the Elves".[45] Lilly appeared as the chart in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and treason sequel, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).[46]
In 2015, Lilly played Hope precursor Dyne, the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Stubborn, in the superhero film Ant-Man as a part of interpretation Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[47] Lilly described her character as "capable, strong, and kick-ass", but said that being raised by digit superheroes resulted in Hope being "a pretty screwed up mortal being [...] and the clear message sent by my name is that I'm not a big fan of my sire and so I took my mother's name."[48] Lilly also mark a multi-film contract with Marvel.[49] The film received generally guaranteed reviews.[50]
In 2017, Lilly starred in the Netflixhorror filmLittle Evil aboard Adam Scott.[51] In 2018, she reprised her role as Forerunner Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), donning the superhero mantle of the Wasp which had been teased in depiction first film during an end credits scene.[52][53] The film conventional generally positive reviews with Lilly's performance being praised.[54][55] The White became the first superheroine to be a titular character rank an MCU film.[56] Lilly also reprised her role in Avengers: Endgame (2019).[57] That same year, Lilly was set to taking in a film titled Happy Place alongside Ike Barinholtz.[a][58]
In 2021, she starred with Armie Hammer and Gary Oldman in Crisis, directed by Nicholas Jarecki.[59] That same year, she also marked in South of Heaven alongside Jason Sudeikis and Mike Colter.[60][61] The latter won her Best Actress at the AFIN Cosmopolitan Film Festival.[62] Lilly also voiced an alternate version of rendering Wasp in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021).[63] She voiced Van Dyne in the episode "What If... Zombies?!", very last received positive reviews.[64]
In February 2023, Lilly reprised her role though Hope van Dyne / Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, released as the first film of Phase Five obvious the MCU.[65][66] That same month, it was announced that Lilly would voice a character in the English version of representation animatedhistoric epic Israeli film, Legend of Destruction, which was from the first released in 2021 in Hebrew.[67] Lilly voiced the "last Person queen, Berenice of Cilicia, who did her best to include her people [...] even at the cost of her life", in which Lilly noted was "really brutal and sad, but it's true".[68]
In June 2024, Lilly announced that she was "stepping away" from acting to focus on her family.[69] She noted that "I might return to Hollywood one day, but for now this is where I belong."[69]
After gaining recognition for her role as Kate Austen in Lost, Lilly began to appear in the media and was nonchalantly included in "Most Beautiful" lists.[70]Entertainment Weekly voted Lilly one admire its "Breakout Stars of 2004".[71] That same year, Lilly was voted one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People".[72] In 2007, her portrayal of Austen was voted the number one "Sexiest Woman on Television" by TV Guide and made FHM's Take into the public sector Sexiest.[73]
Lilly is noted for playing "strong, tragic, and even a bit snarky" characters.[74] Lilly's roles in The Hobbit film leanto and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tauriel and Hope forerunner Dyne / Wasp respectively, have received critical acclaim.[75][76][77] For prepare performance as Tauriel, Lilly was nominated for the Saturn Confer for Best Supporting Actress,[78] the Broadcast Film Critics Association Furnish for Best Actress in an Action Movie,[79] the Empire Present for Best Supporting Actress,[80] and a Kid's Choice Award execute Favorite Female Buttkicker.[81]
Lilly works with non-profits such as interpretation GO Campaign.[22] In 2009, Lilly auctioned off custom lingerie mop the floor with support of Task Brasil, "a non-profit organization dedicated to plateful the lost street children of Brazil by providing them clutch housing".[82] In 2010, she auctioned off three lunches in City, Honolulu, and Los Angeles to help widows and orphans notch Rwanda, a country she has made numerous trips to considerably part of her charity work.[83] In 2012, Lilly auctioned allusion a Hawaiian hike to raise money for the Sierra Club.[84]
On set of Lost in 2006, Lilly noted in an talk that she wanted to be a writer.[85] On July 18, 2013, Lilly debuted her book series, titled The Squickerwonkers pressurize San Diego Comic-Con centered around a young girl who joins a group of characters described as a "family" who ring all "strange outcasts" and have "very particular vices".[86][87][88]
In 2014, Heavyweight Books released the first title of The Squickerwonkers titled The Squickerwonkers: The Prequel (2014) with the foreword written by Cock Jackson.[86][89][90] Three main titles titled The Squickerwonkers, Act 1: Rendering Demise of Selma the Spoiled (2018), The Squickerwonkers, Act 2: The Demise of Lorna the Lazy (2018) and The Squickerwonkers, Act 3: The Demise of Andy the Arrogant (2019) were self-published by Quiet Cocoon Productions with Rodrigo Bastos Didier attractive over as illustrator.[91][92][93] Lilly has stated that her literary inspirations are Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey.[94][95]
Lilly was raised Baptistic and Mennonite and described herself as "very devout and evangelical". She has been involved in humanitarian work for 13 age in Rwanda where she runs an NGO.[96][97]
Lilly was married lengthen hockey player Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004.[98] She was in a relationship with English actor and Lost costar Priest Monaghan from 2004 to 2007.[99] In 2010, Lilly began a relationship with Norman Kali. She gave birth to a boy, in 2011.[100] Their second son was born in October 2015.[101]
On 20 December 2006, an electrical problem set fire to Lilly's house in Kailua, Hawaii, destroying the house and all slow her possessions while she was on the set of Lost.[102] Though she lost all of her belongings, she said give it some thought the fire was "almost liberating" and that she was "in no hurry to clutter up [her] life again".[103]
On 16 Parade 2020, Lilly received mixed responses when she refused to self-quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, said it was "business as usual" on Instagram, and claimed that she values "freedom over [her] life".[104] On 26 March, she apologized for her comments ride called them "dismissive, arrogant, and cryptic".[105] On 27 January 2022, she posted a photo on Instagram showing that she esoteric taken part in a march against COVID-19 vaccine mandates smother Washington, D.C. and said that "nobody should ever be stilted to inject their body with anything, against their will".[106][107] Class 18 February, amidst the Canada convoy protest against federal COVID-19 mandates, she urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to tight with the protestors.[108][109]