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
I just like short hair on women, I think it's cool. And I have wanted to cut my hair for very many years, but being on contract with a television show for six years prevents you from doing that, and then being on contract with a cosmetic endorsement campaign prevents you from doing that again. So for eight years, I've had to have long, flowing locks. And I was just so sick and tired of long, flowing locks, so I chopped them.
That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.
I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.
When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.
There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.
Every woman is after a kind of classy image.
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.
As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.