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'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!
Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.
Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.
I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.
I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.
Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.
It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on.
After about five hours of pushing, my midwife and my birthing assistant said, 'You know, we have a few suggestions.' And I was like, 'Really? After five hours of pushing you have a few suggestions? You couldn't have told me five minutes in?'
I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.
If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.
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.