Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress and author. She won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost (2004–10). She is also known for her roles in films such as the psychological thriller Afterwards (2008), the war film The Hurt Locker (2008), and the sci-fi sports drama film Real Steel (2011). She played an Elf, Tauriel, in the fantasy adventure series The Hobbit and Hope van Dyne in the superhero film Ant-Man.

Biography

Lilly is fluent in French. On December 20, 2006, an electrical problem set fire to her house in Kailua, Hawaii, destroying the house and all of her possessions while she was on the set of Lost. Though she lost all of her belongings, she said that the fire "was almost liberating, I'm in no hurry to clutter up my life again".

Lilly was married to Canadian Murray Hone from 2003 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009, she dated her Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan. She is now in a long term relationship with Norman Kali, a production assistant from Lost, and they make their home in Hawaii. Lilly gave birth to their first child, a son named Kahekili (Hawaiian for "the thunder"), on May 21, 2011. In June 2015, Lilly revealed that she and Kali were expecting their second child in November 2015. Their daughter was born in October, 2015.

Lilly works with non-profits such as the GO Campaign. In 2009, Lilly auctioned off custom lingerie in support of Task Brasil, "a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the lost street children of Brazil by providing them secure housing." In 2010, she auctioned off three lunches in Vancouver, Honolulu, and Los Angeles to help widows and orphans in Rwanda, a country Lilly has made numerous trips to as part of her charity work. In 2012 Lilly auctioned off a Hawaiian hike to raise money for the Sierra Club.

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