Evangeline Lilly

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born 3 August 1979) is a Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award. She has also received nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, 9 Saturn Awards, an Empire Award and 10 Teen Choice Awards.She gained popular acclaim for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2008, she starred as Connie James in the Academy Award–winning war film The Hurt Locker (2008). She followed this with roles in Real Steel (2011), Little Evil (2017), Crisis (2021) and South of Heaven (2021). Lilly is also the author of a children's book series, The Squickerwonkers.Lilly starred as Tauriel in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, appearing in The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). She has portrayed the superhero Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015) and most recently starring in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).