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 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 know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.
I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.
I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.
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 like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.
I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.
I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.
I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
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 was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.
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.