Evangeline Lilly
Biography
Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author who first drew wide attention as Kate Austen on the ABC drama Lost, a role that brought her six Saturn Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. Born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, and raised in British Columbia, she began with commercials and small television parts before that breakthrough. She went on to appear in The Hurt Locker (2008) and Real Steel (2011), and played the elf Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe she portrayed Hope van Dyne, also known as the Wasp, starting with Ant-Man (2015) and continuing through Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). Her other films include Crisis (2021) and South of Heaven (2021), and she is the author of the children's book series The Squickerwonkers.
47years old
Turns 48 on August 3in 265 days
- Born Fort Saskatchewan
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Nicole Evangeline Lilly (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 19 years2005 to 2024
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First role
Lilly's acting career started after a Ford Modelling Agency agent spotted her in Kelowna, British Columbia. She eventually called the agency, which got her commercials and non-speaking parts on Smallville and Kingdom Hospital.
Big break
Around 75 women tried out for the role of Kate Austen. Co-creator Damon Lindelof said he and J. J. Abrams were skipping through a tape when Abrams spotted Evangeline Lilly and said, "That's the girl!"
Getting ready for a role
For Tauriel in The Hobbit, a character Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh created for the films, Lilly trained in swordplay, archery and speaking the Elvish language.
A first
In 2018, Lilly returned as Van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp, putting on the Wasp superhero mantle that the first film had teased in an end credits scene. The Wasp was the first superheroine to headline an MCU film.
Evangeline Lilly movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Peyton Reed directed three of these films, Peter Jackson two. Two actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Paul Rudd's page
Anthony Mackie's page
Benedict Cumberbatch's page
Michael Douglas's page
David Dastmalchian's page
Luke Evans's page
All films by Peyton Reed
All films by Peter Jackson
Box office
What Evangeline Lilly's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$6.7 billion
9 of the 13 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 13 films: 9 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$2.8B41.9% of the total
- 2$958M14.3% of the total
- 3$956M14.3% of the total
- 4$623M9.3% of the total
- 5$519M7.8% of the total
- 6$476M7.1% of the total
- 7$299M4.5% of the total
- 8$49M0.7% of the total
$1.1 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total