Evangeline Lilly
Evangeline Lilly
Nicole Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost. She is also known for her roles in films such as the psychological thriller Afterwards, the war film The Hurt Locker, and the sci-fi sports drama film Real Steel. She played an Elf, Tauriel, in the fantasy adventure series The Hobbit and Hope van Dyne in the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 August 1979
CityFort Saskatchewan, Canada
CountryCanada
People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.
The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.
If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.
I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.
Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.
I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.
Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, I'm being fake, but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
I still have a family who adore me. I still have friends I count on back home, and I still have brown hair. Other than that ...
She met Murray while waitressing and he worked odd jobs to support her.
We've yet to talk about it (with the media). People talk about my rumoured relationship with Dominic, but we just try to stay professional and mature,
I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.
For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.