Nicole Evangeline
Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian Golden
Globe-nominated actress. She is well known for her role
as Katherine "Kate" Austen in ABC's hit drama
Lost.
Early life: Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Canada to a devoutly Christian family. Her
father is a home economics teacher, and her mother is a
beauty consultant. Lilly also has a younger sister, whom
she has described as "the actor in the
family." During her childhood, the family did not
have a television.
Before leaving the city of Fort Saskatchewan at the age
of 10, she attended three elementary schools. She
briefly attended Fort Elementary, Rudolph Henning and
James Mowat Elementary. During a phone interview with
the local paper, The Record, Evangeline was quoted
saying, "When I was a kid, the Fort was tiny. I
could ride my bike at five years old from one end of
town to the other ... To me Fort Saskatchewan holds a
lot of really great memories. I just consider it a
little happy hideaway." She also recalled a
favorite memory saying, "I remember that there was
a drunk driver who was wheeling through town. I remember
literally the men sending the women and children into
the homes. Then they gathered themselves and ran after
this truck. They actually jumped into the cab and jumped
onto the window and forced the guy to pull over and go
to the cop shop."
Lilly served briefly as a foreign missionary and lived
in a grass hut in the Philippines. She founded and ran a
world development and human rights committee while
studying international relations at the University of
British Columbia.She has been a volunteer for children's
projects since she was 14. Lilly is a former flight
attendant and is fluent in French.
Career: Lilly was discovered on the streets of
Kelowna, British Columbia by Ford modeling agency.
Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling
career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to
help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition
and expenses. Despite being signed to Ford Models, she
was never actually a fashion model. - "People
don’t realise Ford has an acting branch”, she said,
“So I was never really a model”.
She was previously featured in several LiveLinks
Chatline television commercials and on G4's Judgment
Day. She appeared uncredited in the 2003 film Freddy vs.
Jason as a high-school girl leaning against a locker,
and in an episode of Smallville in a pool hall scene.
She also had a guest appearance on the ABC supernatural
horror series Kingdom Hospital (2004). Lilly's first
speaking role was on Lost. She also appeared in the 2003
teenager film The Lizzie McGuire Movie as an
(uncredited) Italian police officer.
When Lilly was cast as Kate in Lost, her main concern
was acquiring a work visa to enter the United States.
With production literally days away and no news about
the visa, casting directors were forced to grudgingly
begin re-casting the role of Kate. After nearly 20
auditions, Lilly's work visa was approved/cleared but
she arrived on set a day late. Her salary in 2004 for
Lost was $80,000. On the heels of her role in Lost, she
was voted one of the Breakout Stars of 2004 by
Entertainment Weekly. Although Lilly placed eighth in
the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006 and
initially placed second on Maxim's Hot 100 list of 2005,
she slipped to #67 in Maxim's 2006 list. On December 14,
2006, Lilly was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best
Lead Actress-Drama.
Action figures of Lilly's Lost character are scheduled
to be released during the holiday season of 2006. Lilly
has said that she hopes Lost would air for a total of
five seasons.
Evangeline Lilly was an unknown, part-time actress
before skyrocketing to fame in 2004 for her role on the
TV series Lost. Lilly was a college student in British
Columbia, supporting herself with odd jobs and keeping
one foot in the entertainment industry, when she was
cast in Lost as Kate, the rough-and-tumble brunette with
a shady past. By the end of the show's first season,
Lilly was gracing magazine covers as one of TV's hottest
stars.
Made up of mostly little-known actors, the cast of Lost
includes MIchelle Rodriguez of The Fast and the Furious
(2001) and Naveen Andrews, who appeared in the motion
picture The English Patient (1996).
Personal life: Lilly was once married to Canadian
hockey player Murray Hone, but is now rumoured to be
engaged to her Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan. Her known
nicknames include "Evi" and
"Monkey". Her Lost castmates nicknamed her
"Monkey" because of her ability to climb trees
with ease, a skill which has been incorporated into her
character.[6] Her fellow Lost-actor Josh Holloway also
calls her 'Freckles', sharing the nickname his on-screen
character Sawyer gave her. She is also known on set for
her tomboyishness, Christian faith, and her "potty
mouth".
Lilly has stated that she "live[s] in a
bubble," specifying that she is not familiar with
popular culture and does not watch television or own a
TV set. She has also said that she would not appear in a
nude scene or perform in sexual scenes that she would
consider "gratuitous".
Lilly has also used her celebrity status to help promote
Just Yell Fire, a video aimed at teaching teenage girls
how to defend themselves against rapists. During the
summer break between the first and second seasons of
Lost, Lilly spent time visiting the poor in Rwanda.
On December 20, 2006, Lilly's house in Kailua, Hawaii
was completely destroyed by fire while she was on the
Lost set with one of her two roommates, both of whom
work as her stand-ins on the show. The second roommate
was off-island at the time of the blaze, which occurred
on the final day of shooting before the show’s holiday
break. The cause of the fire has now been determined as
an electrical fault.
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