Evangeline Lilly Net Worth And Biography

Nicole Evangeline Lilly professionally known as Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author with a net worth of $5 Million. She is also a recipient of several awards and accolades. However, in this article, RNN further details Evangeline Lilly’s net worth, biography, and career according to Wikipedia and WealthyGorilla.

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Bio-Data

Biography

Evangeline Lilly was born on the 3rd of August, 1979 in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. She grew up in Columbia with her mother who was a produce manager, her father, a home economics teacher, and her older and younger sisters.

Evangeline Lilly graduated from W.J. Mouat Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia where she participated in soccer and served as vice president of the student council. When she got to the university, she worked as a waitress. According to her, she did “oil changes and grease jobs on big rig trucks”, and also worked as a flight attendant for Royal Airlines, just to be able to pay her tuition. At the University of British Columbia, she majored in International Relations.

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Early Career

Evangeline Lilly began her career when she was discovered by an agent from Ford Modelling Agency while she was passing time in Kelowna, British Columbia. After putting a call through to the agent, she landed several roles in commercials and non-speaking parts in TV shows; Smallville and Kingdom Hospital. Also, she was on a video game news and review show on G4TV, a gaming television channel.

Breakthrough

A friend had encouraged Evangeline Lilly to take up an audition for ABC’s Lost and she took it up. Although she wasn’t expecting to be cast, she was. Having about 75 women auditioning for the part of Kate Austen, writer and co-creator, Damon Lindelof said, he alongside J.J Abrams “… were fast-forwarding through a tape and he saw her”, Evangeline Lilly. Then, he said, “That’s the girl!”. There and then, Evangeline Lilly was cast for the role. But, her character was on the verge of being given to someone else due to the trouble she had securing a work visa to get into the United States. Finally and fortunately, her application was accepted after trying almost 20 times and she arrived in Hawaii for filming one day late.

The movie, Lost ran for six seasons (2004 – 2010), and it was one of ABC’s top primetime shows. The show won one Golden Globe Award, ten Primetime Emmy Awards, and Outstanding Drama Series (2005), and was also ranked the top-rated TV show of the decade by IMDb. Evangeline Lilly appeared in 108 of 121 episodes as she was the show’s female lead.

In 2006, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.  After shooting the final episode of Lost, she considered taking a break from acting and focusing solely on her charity and humanitarian exertions. According to her words in an interview with Vulture, she states her high-profile roles are mainly for the purpose of furthering her humanitarian exertions, and not to achieve stardom. She says, “I consider acting a day job—it’s not my dream; it’s not my be-all, end-all.”

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Career Establishment

In 2008, Evangeline Lilly appeared in The Hurt Locker. And alongside other casts, they won the Gotham Independent Film Awards for Best Ensemble Cast and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Ensemble. Afterwards, she played a leading role in Afterwards, a psychological thriller film. In 2010, she then announced her intention to focus on children’s book writing, but the willingness to continue taking feature film roles.

On the 11th of May 2010, Evangeline Lilly announced on The View that her top priorities are acting and being a mother. She further stated that she likes acting as a “day job” and would get back to it when possible. Following the announcement, she took a short retirement and was not in contact with Hollywood. In June of the same year, Evangeline Lilly announced on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that she would be writing a children’s book and recited several experts. She also stated that her literary inspirations were Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey, children’s book authors.

The following year, she appeared as Bailey Tallet in Real Steel. Even after turning down several film offers, she travelled to Los Angeles to get the part after Shawn Levy sent her the script. Shawn Levy said: “She’s magnificent to look at, she’s soulful, and she’s sexy. I needed someone who you believed had grown up in a man’s world. Bailey needed to have the strength and a toughness that was not at the expense of her being womanly.”

The Hobbit

In 2012, Evangeline Lilly was cast as the Mirkwood elf Tauriel in The Hobbit, which was an adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s novel of the same name. The character was created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as the head of the Elven guard in the movie. What helped her play her role excellently in the project was that she had been a fan of Tolkien’s books since she was 13. She underwent training for swordplay and archery for the role, and in the Elvish language. She appeared in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and in its sequel, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

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2013 – 2015

On the 18th of July, Evangeline Lilly made her book series debut with, The Squickerwonkers at the San Diego Comic-Con, where she attended a book signing for the work in addition to providing a reading performance. She stated that she had the idea for her book when she was just 14 and the foreword of the book was written by Director Peter Jackson. The series tells the story of a young girl who joins a group of characters described by the writer (Evangeline Lilly) as “this family, the Squickerwonkers, and they’re strange outcasts who all have very particular vices”. She stated that her future book release would each reveal a new Squickerwonker character and unique vice which would result in the undoing of the character.

Titan Books released the first title, The Squickerwonkers: The Pre-Show, in 2015 and the limited-run book The Squickerwonkers: An Artist’s Sketchbook in 2016. Then, The Squickerwonkers, Act 1: The Demise of Selma the Spoiled was self-published by Lilly’s Quiet Cocoon Productions with Rodrigo Bastos Didier taking over as illustrator. Two further titles were released: The Squickerwonkers, Act 2: The Demise of Lorna the Lazy and The Squickerwonkers, Act 3: The Demise of Andy the Arrogant.

In 2015, Evangeline Lilly played Hope van Dyne/ Wasp in Ant-Man and later repeated the role in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). In 2019, she repeated the role in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Afterwards, she voiced an alternate version of Hope in What If…? (2021). She also voiced van Dyne in the episode, What If…? Zombies?!, and received positive reviews for her effort.

2017 – Present

In 2017, Evangeline Lilly starred in the Netflix Horror Film, Little Evil. And in 2021, she starred with Armie Hammer and Gary Oldman in Crisis, directed by Nicholas Jarecki. In the same year, she starred in South of Heaven.

Lastly, Evangeline Lilly is to repeat her role as Hope van Dyne/Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is to be released on the 17th of February, 2023, as the first film of Phase Five of the MCU.

Evangeline Lilly’s Net Worth

Evangeline Lilly’s net worth is currently estimated at $5 million.

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Public Image

Evangeline Lilly’s role as Kate Austen in Lost undoubtedly brought her to the limelight, and it has ever since given her constant appearance in the media. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly voted Evangeline Lilly as one of its Breakout Stars of the year. In the same year, she was voted as one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People. In 2007, her role as Kate Austen was voted the number one Sexiest Woman on Television by TV Guide and made FHM’s Top Sexiest.

Likewise, Evangeline Lilly is most known for playing “strong, tragic, and even a bit snarky” characters. Her role in The Hobbit film series and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tauriel and Hope van Dyne/Wasp received critical acclaim respectively.

Evangeline Lilly’s role as Tauriel earned her a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the 2014 Kids’ Choice Award. And for her role as Hope van Dyne, she became the first woman to attain the status of a film’s title character in the MCU.

Charity Work

Evangeline Lilly works with non-profits such as the GO Campaign. In 2009, she 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”. The following year, she auctioned off three launches in Vancouver, Honolulu and Los Angeles to help widows and orphans in Rwanda. Then in 2012, she auctioned off a Hawaiian hike to raise money for the Sierra Club.

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COVID-19 Controversies

Lilly faced backlash on March 16, 2020, when she refused to self-quarantine during the COVID-19 epidemic, posted on Instagram that it was “business as usual,” and asserted that she values “freedom over life.” She apologised for her remarks on March 26 and described them as “dismissive, haughty, and cryptic.”

She stated in a photo she uploaded on Instagram on January 27, 2022, that “nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will.” The photo showed her participating in a march in Washington, D.C. against COVID-19 vaccine regulations. Her Ant-Man co-star David Dastmalchian and fellow Marvel actor Simu Liu were among those who criticised her. She requested Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with the demonstrators on February 18, during the Canada convoy protest against federal immunisation requirements.

Personal Life

From 2003 to 2004, Evangeline Lilly was married to Murray Hone. After their divorce, she got into a relationship with Dominic Monaghan, and the relationship lasted from 2004 to 2007. In 2010, she got into another relationship with Norman Kali, and this turns out to be a long-term relationship. In 2011, Evangeline Lilly gave birth to their first son and thereafter had their second son in October 2015.

Evangeline Lilly stated that she is a Christian, and her religion influenced her visit to the Philippines when she was 18.

While Lilly was working on the Lost set, an electrical issue caused her home in Kailua, Hawaii, to catch fire on December 20, 2006. The house and all of her belongings were completely destroyed. She claimed that although she lost everything in the fire, it was “almost liberating,” and she was “in no hurry to clutter (her) life again.”

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Notable Awards

• Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2005,
• Gotham Awards for Best Ensemble Cast in 2010,
• MTV Movie Awards for Best Fight in 2014,
• And, Best Actress at AFIN International Film Festival in 2021.