Evangeline Lilly Bio | Wiki
Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She has received various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award. Lilly has also received nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Saturn Award, an Empire Award, and 10 Teen Choice Awards.
She became famous acclaim for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost from 2004 to 2010. This garnered her the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Evangeline Lilly Age
Lilly was born on August 3, 1979, in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada. She is 43 years old.
Evangeline Lilly Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Evangeline Lilly Family
She was born in Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, to her father Paul Lilly, and her mother. Lilly grew up in British Columbia alongside her sisters including Andrea. Her mother was a produce manager, and her father was a home economics teacher.
Evangeline Lilly Husband | Norman Kali.
Lilly was married to Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004. She was in a relationship with her Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan from 2004 to 2007. In 2010, Lilly started a long-term relationship with Norman Kali. She gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2011. Their second child, another son, was born in October 2015.
Evangeline Lilly Education
She graduated from W. J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Lilly played soccer and was vice president of the student council. In university, she was a waitress, did “oil changes and grease jobs on big rig trucks”, and was a flight attendant for Royal Airlines to pay for her tuition. Lilly’s interest in humanitarian causes and world development led her to major in International Relations at the University of British Columbia.
Evangeline Lilly Movies And Tv Shows
2002–2004 Smallville
2003 Tru Calling
2004 Kingdom Hospital
2004–2010 Lost
2021 What If…?
2011 Real Steel
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2015 Ant-Man
2017 Little Evil
2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019 Avengers: Endgame
2021 Crisis
2021 South of Heaven
Evangeline Lilly In The Hobbit | Tauriel
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. 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, a fan of Tolkien’s books since she was 13, underwent training for swordplay and archery for the role, and in the Elvish language. She appeared in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and its sequel, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
Evangeline Lilly On Lost
She auditioned for the part of Kate Austen for ABC’s Lost. Lost ran for six seasons, from 2004 to 2010. It was one of ABC’s top primetime shows, winning one Golden Globe Award and ten Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2005. It was ranked the top-rated TV show of the decade by IMDb.
Lilly, who was from 25 to 31 years of age during the show’s run, appeared in 108 of 121 episodes, and her character, Kate Austen, was the show’s female lead. In 2006 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
Robert Bianco of USA Today praised her performance in the episode “Eggtown”, saying it was almost worthy of a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination
Evangeline Lilly Ant-Man
In 2015, Lilly played Hope van Dyne / Wasp in the superhero film Ant-Man, and later reprised the role in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). Both films received generally positive reviews with Lilly’s performance praised in the latter.
Evangeline Lilly Real Steel
In 2011, Lilly appeared as Bailey Tallet in Real Steel. Despite turning down a number of film offers, she traveled to Los Angeles to get the part after director Shawn Levy sent her the script. 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 the strength and a toughness that was not at the expense of her being womanly.”
Evangeline Lilly Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. lilly’s estimated net worth is $5 million.
Who Is Evangeline Lilly
She is a 43-year-old Canadian actress and author. She has received various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award.
Is Evangeline Lilly Married
No. She was married to Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004. In 2010, Lilly started a long-term relationship with Norman Kali. She gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2011. Their second child, another son, was born in October 2015.