Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly - Photo Gallery

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Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly - Photo Gallery

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly

Date of Birth 3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
Birth Name Nicole Evangeline Lilly
Nickname Evie, Monkey
Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by the famous 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.

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly has always been interested in social causes. Since age 14, she has been involved in everything from children's causes to missionary work in the Philippines, but she always dreamed of becoming an actress. When she was approached by the Ford modeling agency in Kelowna, British Columbia, she turned down Ford's first offer, electing instead to pursue charitable causes.

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly on smallville
Evangeline Lilly worked as an airline hostess and waitress for a brief time. She eventually agreed to a modeling contract in order to pay for her tuition and receive her international relations degree from the University of British Columbia. Since starting her acting/modeling career, she has appeared in episodes of TV shows like Smallville, Tru Calling and Stephen King's miniseries Kingdom Hospital. Evangeline Lilly also appeared as a model in the 2003 film Stealing Sinatra and as a corpse in 2005's The Long Weekend.

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly on lost
Evangeline Lilly's next gig was the one that put her on the Hollywood map. She became one of the stars of the sci-fi television drama Lost, which scored a huge hit for ABC, and she was named the second sexiest woman in the world by Maxim magazine in 2005. The show wrapped for up for good in May of 2010.

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly in the hobbit
Despite a small part in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, Evangeline Lilly's film career has been far from impressive. Luckily, the actress, who just gave birth to her first child, a boy, with boyfriend Norman Kali, was cast by director Peter Jackson as the Woodland Elf Tauriel in his The Hobbit series, alongside big-name actors like Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett and Elijah Wood.

Of the newly created elf character, Jackson has said: “Her name means ‘daughter of Mirkwood,’ and, beyond that, we must leave you guessing! (No, there is no romantic connection to Legolas.)”

Canadian Actress Evangeline Lilly - Photo Gallery