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Evangeline Lilly was born on the 3rd of August 1979 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. She was raised in British Columbia by her mother, a daycare centre owner, and her father, a home economics teacher, and attended W. J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford.
Lilly became famous for playing Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost, which ran from 2004 to 2010. She appeared in 108 of the show's 121 episodes and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama in 2006.
Lilly portrays Hope van Dyne, also known as the Wasp, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She first appeared in Ant-Man in 2015, reprised the role in Ant-Man and the Wasp in 2018, Avengers: Endgame in 2019, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in 2023. The Wasp became the first superheroine to receive titular billing in an MCU film.
Tauriel is a Mirkwood elf created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for the film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit; the character does not appear in Tolkien's original book. Lilly trained in swordplay, archery, and the Elvish language to play the head of the Elven guard, appearing in The Desolation of Smaug in 2013 and The Battle of the Five Armies in 2014.
Lilly is the author of The Squickerwonkers, a children's book series she debuted at San Diego Comic-Con on the 18th of July 2013. The series includes a prequel published by Titan Books in 2014 with a foreword by Peter Jackson, followed by three self-published volumes released in 2018 and 2019 through her company Quiet Cocoon Productions.
Lilly announced an indefinite hiatus from acting in June 2024, stating she was focusing on her family and adding: "I might return to Hollywood one day, but for now this is where I belong." In January 2026 she also revealed she had sustained brain damage from a May 2025 accident in which she passed out and fell into a boulder, and was focused on recovery.