“I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.”

Canadian actress and author

Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author, best known for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series Lost, which ran from 2004 to 2010. That role brought her wide recognition and led to six Saturn Award nominations for Best Actress on Television, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She is known for work in popular screen drama and for writing, though the available facts here focus mainly on Lost and the recognition it brought her.