Who played the role of Tauriel? Actress Evangeline Lilly: biography, interesting facts

Evangeline Lilly was born in Canada on August 3, 1979 in a Christian Christian family, her father and grandmother were engaged in missionary work in Africa.

Biography

Since childhood, Lilly has been an active child, she not only took a great interest in sports, but she was also the deputy president of the school pupil's council, she was pleased to study. In 13 years, was carried away by Tolkien's work, reading the trilogy "The Hobbit." Tauriel actress from this work will play later.

At the age of 18, Lilly went to the Philippines along with a missionary group, where she lived in conditions far from civilization. After the trip, the girl was offered to engage in this activity for two years, and she almost agreed, but her parents were against it.

In her youth, the girl did not disdain the hardest work: she was engaged in technical maintenance of trucks, moonlighting as a waitress and stewardess in order to pay for her studies at the university. And she even dreamed of becoming a manager in the company that installs oil wells.

Creative activity before popularity

The girl actress became casually: on the street to it the employee of modeling agency has approached with a card. Evangeline was skeptical about such a kind of activity and for a long time did not dare to call the number, but at one point changed her mind. The first shootings were in commercials, sometimes I managed to take part in television shows as extras.

The first time Lilly appeared as an actress in the movie "Judgment Day", which was broadcast on the American cable channel G4, after there was an episodic work in the film "Freddie v. Jason" (2003), where the actress played a schoolgirl. Then there were appearances in the episodes of the series "Smallville Secrets", "Royal Hospital".

Notable work in the cinema

In 2004, Lilly was casting for director J.J. Abrams, who planned to shoot a series about lost passengers on the island of the plane "Lost", the actress, not without the help of an agent, got one of the main roles. She played Kate Austen. Already before the shooting, there was a mess with the documents: for work in the US (the series was filmed in Hawaii), Lilly, who had Canadian citizenship, required a visa, which could not be obtained for a long time.

The creators of the film had to urgently conduct a new casting, but by a lucky coincidence, everything was resolved in favor of Evangeline. Success after the termination of work in this project was stunning: she was recognized as the sexiest woman in the world (TV Guide rating) and one of the most beautiful people on the planet (People magazine). In addition, she was nominated for several prestigious awards, two of which went to the actress, and handed a fee, which would be enough to not work for the rest of her life. After filming in the series, Evangeline decided to devote herself to charity, writing and motherhood, temporarily interrupting her acting career, which, according to her, was never a priority.

In October 2011, Lilly accepted the proposal immediately after reading the script to star in the movie "Living Steel" in the title role, where her partner was Hugh Jackman. Their tandem, according to Shawn Levy (the director of the picture), was very sexy.

Role of Tauriel

The role of Tauriel actress Evangeline Lilly (the film "The Hobbit") played in 2012 after the birth of her son.

Tauriel in translation from Scandinavian means "Forest Maiden" (taur - "forest", riel - female suffix meaning "daughter", "girl"). This is a character written by scriptwriters, appearing in the movie trilogy "The Hobbit." Tauriel Evangeline Lilly is a forest elf from Mirkwood and warrior-leader of the Elven Guard Thranduil.

The character of Taurel in the "Hobbit" is the only female, found in the trilogy and written specifically for Lilly. Tolkienists reacted ambiguously to the appearance of a new actor, invented not by the author of the cult book, but by screenwriters Peter Jackson and Frans Walsh. Evangeline herself claimed that she is also a fan of Tolkien's talent and since childhood she likes to read all of his works, and the appearance of Taurel was explained by the fact that the author simply did not want to describe each hero from the elven guard of Tranuel. For the filming of the film did not require special preparation. Like Tauriel, actress Evangeline Lilly has athletic skills, so all the tricks performed independently. The only thing worth learning about is mastering the sword and bow, as well as the elven language.

Most notably, the appearance of the heroine in the second part of the picture "The Hobbit: Smaug's Heath", where the viewer has the opportunity to assess not only the willed qualities of the fairy girl warrior, but her feminine essence in the love line with Kili.

Personal life

Evangeline rarely appears in public and tries not to advertise his relationship with the opposite sex. Therefore, little is known about the novels of the actress: before filming in Lost, she was married for a short time to hockey player Murray Khon, the couple broke up because of Lilly's new affection for the actor-partner on Lost, Dominik Monaghan, who played Charlie Pace. The relationship between the young people lasted 4 years, talked about the engagement, but the couple suddenly broke up for everyone.

In May 2011, the press learned about the birth of a child from Lilly and Norman Kali , an assistant to the director of "Lost". Currently, lovers live in a mansion in Hawaii, bring up two children (in 2015, a daughter was born) and do not rush to legalize relations.

Interesting Facts

• Lilly philosophically refers to life. In 2006, in Hawaii, a wiring burned in her house, neither housing nor property could be saved: Evangeline considered the incident to be a release from what had previously littered her life.
• Lilly's first name is Kahekili. He was named after the god of the storm, for the boy was born in Hawaii during the bad weather.
• Evangeline is fluent in French.
• The role of Tauriel, the actress believes, helped her to better navigate the characters of literary characters when writing her own books.
• The first name of the actress is Nicole.
• The actress is fond of surfing, canoeing, snowboarding, rock climbing. It is recognized that in films he loves to climb trees and participate in scenes with fights.
• He considers himself to be a closed and unsociable, even boring person: "I'm ordinary, as I blow my nose and drool into the pillow."
• Lilly is negative about Hollywood, in her opinion, this is Sodd and Gomorrah, from which you have to stay away.