Nicole Evangeline Lilly born August 3, 1979 is a Canadian actress and writer. She gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost (2004–2010), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series.
Lilly has also appeared in the war film The Hurt Locker (2008) and the sports drama Real Steel (2011), and she has 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 Hope van Dyne in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015). Lilly is also the author of the children's book series The Squickerwonkers
Lilly was born on August 3, 1979 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Her mother, a daycare center owner, and her father, a home economics teacher, raised her in British Columbia. She has an older sister and a younger sister. Lilly was raised Baptist and Mennonite.
Lilly graduated from W.J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia with a 4.3 GPA; she was captain of the soccer team and vice-president of the student council.In university, she was a waitress, "changed oil and grease on big rig trucks", and was a flight attendant for Royal Airlines to pay for her tuition fees. Her interest in humanitarian causes and world development led her to major in international relations at the University of British Columbia.
Lilly was raised Baptist and Mennonite and describes herself as "very devout and evangelical". She has been involved in humanitarian work for 13 years in Rwanda, where she runs an NGO.
Lilly was married to hockey player Murray Hohn from 2003 to 2004.She was in a relationship with English actor and Lost costar Dominic Monaghan from 2004 to 2007.In 2010, Lilley began a relationship with Norman Kali. She gave birth to their first child, a son, in 2011. Their second child, another son, was born in October 2015.
On December 20, 2006, Lilly's home in Kailua, Hawaii caught fire due to an electrical problem, destroying the house and all of her belongings while she was on the set of Lost. Although she lost all of her belongings, she said the fire was "almost liberating" and that she was "in no hurry to disorganize [her] life again".
On March 16, 2020, Lilly received mixed reactions when she refused to self-quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was "business as usual" on Instagram, and claiming she "values freedom more than her life".On March 26, she apologized for her comments, calling them "dismissive, arrogant, and mystical". On January 27, 2022, she posted a photo on Instagram showing that she had attended a march against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Washington, D.C., and said that "no one should be forced to have anything injected into their body, against their will". On February 18, amid the Canadian Motorcade protests against the federal COVID-19 mandate, she urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with protesters.
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