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40 Facts About Evangeline Lilly
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Evangeline Lilly gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost, which garnered her six nominations for the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
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Evangeline Lilly has portrayed Hope van Dyne in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Evangeline Lilly is the author of a children's book series The Squickerwonkers.
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Evangeline Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, on August 3,1979.
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Evangeline Lilly was raised in British Columbia by her mother, a daycare center owner, and her father, a home economics teacher.
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Evangeline Lilly has an older sister and a younger sister.
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Evangeline Lilly's acting career began when she was discovered by a Ford Modelling Agency agent while passing the time in Kelowna, British Columbia.
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Evangeline Lilly took the agent's business card but did not immediately pursue acting.
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Evangeline Lilly eventually called and the agency landed her several roles in commercials and non-speaking parts in the TV shows Smallville and Kingdom Hospital.
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Evangeline Lilly was on a video game news and review show on the gaming television channel G4TV.
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In late 2003, Evangeline Lilly was encouraged by a friend to audition for ABC's Lost, but did not expect to be cast.
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Evangeline Lilly's application was finally accepted after nearly 20 tries; she arrived in Hawaii for filming one day late.
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Evangeline Lilly was between 24 and 30 years of age during the show's run, appearing in 108 of 121 episodes, as her character, Kate Austen, was the show's female lead.
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In 2008, Evangeline Lilly appeared in the film The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
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That same year, Evangeline Lilly had a leading role in the psychological thriller film Afterwards.
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In May 2010, Evangeline Lilly announced on The View that being a mother was her top priority, but that she liked acting as a "day job" and would continue it when possible.
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Evangeline Lilly took a short hiatus that year and was not in contact with Hollywood.
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In 2011, despite turning down a number of film offers, Evangeline Lilly appeared as Bailey Tallet, a boxing gym owner, in Real Steel alongside Hugh Jackman.
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Evangeline Lilly accepted the role after director Shawn Levy sent her the script.
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Levy noted that Evangeline Lilly was "magnificent to look" and that he "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".
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In 2012, Lilly was cast as the Mirkwood elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of JR R Tolkien's The Hobbit.
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Evangeline Lilly described Tauriel as a nonconformist, noting that she tends to "rebel against the established social order of the Elves".
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In 2015, Evangeline Lilly played Hope van Dyne, the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, in the superhero film Ant-Man as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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In 2017, Evangeline Lilly starred in the Netflix horror film Little Evil alongside Adam Scott.
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The film received generally positive reviews with Evangeline Lilly's performance being praised.
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That same year, Evangeline Lilly was set to star in a film titled Happy Place alongside Ike Barinholtz.
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Evangeline Lilly voiced an alternate version of the Wasp in the Disney+ animated series What If.
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In June 2024, Evangeline Lilly announced that she was "stepping away" from acting to focus on her family.
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That same year, Evangeline Lilly was voted one of People "50 Most Beautiful People".
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Evangeline Lilly is noted for playing "strong, tragic, and even a bit snarky" characters.
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In 2009, Evangeline 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".
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In 2012, Evangeline Lilly auctioned off a Hawaiian hike to raise money for the Sierra Club.
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On set of Lost in 2006, Evangeline Lilly noted in an interview that she wanted to be a writer.
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Evangeline Lilly has stated that her literary inspirations are Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey.
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Evangeline Lilly was raised Baptist and Mennonite and described herself as "very devout and evangelical".
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Evangeline Lilly has been involved in humanitarian work for 13 years in Rwanda where she runs an NGO.
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Evangeline Lilly was married to hockey player Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004.
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Evangeline Lilly was in a relationship with English actor and Lost costar Dominic Monaghan from 2004 to 2007.
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On 16 March 2020, Evangeline 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".