Evangeline Lilly was born in Canada on August 3, 1979 in a Christian family, her father and grandmother were involved in missionary work in Africa.
Biography
Since childhood, Lilly was an active child, she was not only fond of sports, but also was the deputy president of the school student council, she studied with pleasure. At 13, she became interested in Tolkien's work, reading the Hobbit trilogy. Tauriel, the actress from this work will play later.
At the age of 18, Lilly went to the Philippines with a missionary group, where she lived in conditions far from civilization. After the trip, the girl was offered to engage in this type of activity for two years, and she almost agreed, but her parents were against it.
In her youth, the girl did not disdain the most difficult work: she was engaged in technical maintenance of trucks, worked as a waitress and a stewardess in order to pay for her studies at the university. And she even dreamed of becoming a manager in a company engaged in the installation of oil wells.
Creative activity before popularity
The girl became an actress by accident: on the street an employee of a modeling agency approached her with a business card. Evangeline was skeptical of this kind of activity and for a long time did not dare to call the specified number, but at one point she changed her mind. The first shootings were in commercials, sometimes it was possible to take part in television shows as extras.
The first time Lilly appeared as an actress in the film "Doomsday", which was broadcast on the American cable channel G4, after there was an episodic work in the film "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003), where the actress played a high school girl. Then came the appearance in episodes of the series “Smallville Secrets”, “Royal Hospital”.
Noticeable movie work
In 2004, Lilly was casting by director J.J. Abrams, who planned to make a series about the lost passengers on the island of the plane "Lost", the actress, not without the help of an agent, got one of the main roles. She played Kate Austin. Already before the shooting, there was a mess with the documents: to work in the USA (the series was shot in Hawaii), Lilly, who had Canadian citizenship, needed a visa, which was not possible for a long time.
The filmmakers had to urgently conduct a new casting, but by a happy coincidence, everything was resolved in favor of Evangeline. The success after finishing work in this project was overwhelming: she was recognized as the sexiest woman in the world (TV Guide rating) and one of the most beautiful people on the planet (People magazine). In addition, she was nominated for several prestigious awards, two of which went to the actress, and was awarded a fee that would be enough to not work the rest of her life. After filming the series, Evangeline decided to devote herself to charity, writing and motherhood, temporarily interrupting her acting career, which, in her statement, was never a priority.
In October 2011, Lilly accepted the offer immediately after reading the script to star in the movie "Steel Steel" in the title role, where Hugh Jackman became her partner. Their tandem, according to Sean Levy (director of the picture), was very sexy.
The role of Tauriel
Actress Evangeline Lilly (the film "The Hobbit") played the role of Tauriel in 2012 after the birth of her son.
Tauriel in Scandinavian means "Forest maiden" (taur - "forest", riel- feminine suffix, meaning "daughter", "girl"). This is a character invented by the screenwriters, appearing in the movie The Hobbit. Tauriel Evangeline Lilly is a wood elf from Mirkwood and a warrior leader of the elven guardian Thranduil.
The Taurel character in The Hobbit is the only female character found in the trilogy and written specifically for Lilly. Tolkienists reacted ambiguously to the emergence of a new character, invented not by the author of the cult book, but by the scriptwriters of the picture, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Evangeline herself stated that she is also a fan of Tolkien's talent and loves to read all his works from childhood, and the actress explained the advent of Taurel by the fact that the author simply did not want to describe each hero from the elven guardian of Tranuil. For filming in the picture did not require special preparation. Like Tauriel, actress Evangeline Lilly has sports skills, so she did all the tricks on her own. The only thing worth learning was the possession of the sword and bow, as well as the elven language.
The heroine’s appearance in the second part of the film “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” is most noticeable, where the viewer has the opportunity to evaluate not only the volitional qualities of a fabulous warrior girl, but also her female essence in a love line with Keely.
Personal life
Evangeline rarely appears in public and tries not to advertise his relationship with the opposite sex. Therefore, little is known about the actress’s novels: she was married to hockey player Murrem Hon for a short time before filming in Lost, the couple broke up due to Lilly’s new affinity for Dominique Monaghan, the actor who played Charlie Pace. The relations of young people lasted 4 years, they talked about the engagement, but the couple unexpectedly broke up for everyone.
In May 2011, the press learned about the birth of a child from Lilly and Norman Kali - assistant director of Lost. Currently, lovers live in a mansion in Hawaii, raise two children (a daughter was born in 2015) and are in no hurry to legitimize relations.
