Evangeline Lilly Biography
Nicole Evangeline Lilly ,Canadian actress, her role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama, Lost
born August 3, 1979,Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada, to a devoutly Evangelical Christian family, though her mother's side has been described as "intellectual atheists". Her father is a home economics teacher, and her mother is a beauty consultant. Lilly also has two sisters. Her youngest sister, Andrea, has been described by Evangeline as "the actor in the family" During her childhood, the family did not have a television.
Before leaving the town of Fort Saskatchewan, she attended three elementary schools. She briefly attended Fort Elementary, Rudolph Henning and James Mowat Elementary. During a phone interview with the local paper, The Record, Lilly was quoted saying, "When I was a kid, the Fort was tiny. I could ride my bike at five years old from one end of town to the other ... To me Fort Saskatchewan holds a lot of really great memories. I just consider it a little happy hideaway."
Lilly served briefly as a foreign missionary and lived in a grass hut in the Philippines. She was offered a missionary position there for two years, an offer she nearly accepted but eventually declined because of her parents' wishes. Lilly was a flight attendant with Royal Airlines, and speaks French fairly well.She also worked at Green Bay Bible Camp near Kelowna. Evangeline, born Nicole Lilly, worked at Earls Restaurant in Abbotsford, B.C. she was nominated for GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2009 for the film LOST
She has been working for the film, The Hurt Locker as Connie James .