Evangeline Lilly
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| Evangeline Lilly | |
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 TV Guide image of Evangeline Lilly. | |
| Character(s) | Katherine "Kate" Austen |
| Date of Birth | August 3, 1979 (age 28) |
| Origin | Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada |
| IMDb profile | |
Evangeline Lilly plays the role of Katherine "Kate" Austen.
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Background
Evangeline Lilly was born a native Canadian (and is fluent in French). Her father is a Home Economics teacher, and her mother worked as a cosmetician and ran a daycare center. She has two sisters.
Lilly attended the University of British Columbia where she attained a degree in international relations. She has been a fervent volunteer for children's projects since the age of 14, and she founded and ran a world development and human rights committee at her university.
Prior to her starring role on Lost, Lilly worked as an extra on film sets to help pay her University tuition. She also starred in episodes of Tru Calling, Dead Like Me and Smallville, Kingdom Hospital, and in several films, including Stealing Sinatra. However, her first big break did not come until Lilly was "discovered" by Lost producers for the role of Kate. Ironically, Evangeline was almost not able to work with the cast because she had problems obtaining a work visa, and got the visa after filming for the "Pilot, Part 1" had already begun.
She was engaged to co-star Dominic Monaghan and they were to wed in the summer of 2007, but they broke up in autumn of 2007.
Early on the morning of December 21st, 2006, a day before the Lost cast broke for Christmas vacation, Lilly's rental house in Hawaii was destroyed in a fire. There were no injuries as she was at work at the time, her two housemates (one of them a Lost crew member) were also not home.
Filmography
Feature films
- The Long Weekend (2005) as Simone
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003) as school student next to locker (uncredited extra?)
- Stealing Sinatra (2003) as model in commercial
Television
- Lost (2004-2008)
- Kingdom Hospital (2004), 1 ep as Benson's Girlfriend
- Tru Calling (2003), 1 ep as Party Guest
- Smallville (2002), 1 ep as Wade's Girlfriend
- Judgement Day (2002), 1 ep, as JD Girl
Upcoming
- Afterwards (2008)
Awards
Media appearances
Talk show
Lilly has appeared as a talk show guest in the following:
- February 12, 2008: Late Night with David Letterman
Magazine
Lilly has been featured as the main topic of the following magazine articles or zines:
- Amazon-IMDB January 2006 article on salary increase
Miscellaneous
- August 8, 2004; September 30, 2006: Sunset on the Beach (Season 1 & 3 premieres)
Upcoming
TBA
Trivia
- Kate, her character on Lost, is frequently seen climbing trees. This is because the very athletic Lilly loves to climb trees herself.
- Lilly loves ice skating, canoeing, kayaking, snowboarding and rock climbing. [source needed]
- She is a devout Christian. [1]
- One of her front teeth is a fake. [source needed]
- She has worked as a flight attendant, waitress, and completed oil changes on big rigs while doing commercials and modeling to earn money for University. [source needed]
- Refused to do a partial nude scene in an early episode of Lost. [source needed]
- She has lived under a grass hut in the jungles of the Philippines with a missionary group when she was 18. [2]
- Did a commercial for LiveLinks.
- Since her newfound success with Lost, Evangeline has presented the Tragically Hip at Live 8 Canada, was voted one of the Breakout Stars of 2004 by Entertainment Weekly Magazine and was No.2 on the Sexiest Women in the World list by Maxim Magazine (2005).
- In 2006 she received a 2007 Golden Globe nomination for the Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series (Drama) for her role as Kate.
- She lets her publicist send her to only one "big event/party" in Los Angeles a year. [3]
- She believes that "99% of the women in this world " want Kate to end up with Sawyer, and she hates how Kate can't decide which man she wants. [4] She also "desperately" wants Kate to be pregnant with Sawyer's baby. [5]
External links
Miscellaneous
- Biography - at ABC Medianet
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