Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and author. Evangeline Lilly is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award. She has also received nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Saturn Award, an Empire Award and 10 Teen Choice Awards.

Evangeline Lilly gained popular acclaim for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC series Lost (2004–2010), which garnered her the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2008, she starred as Connie James in the Academy Award–winning war film The Hurt Locker (2008) and followed it with a role in the science fiction film Real Steel (2011). Lilly is also the author of a children’s book series, The Squickerwonkers (2013–present).

Lilly 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 the superhero Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Ant-Man (2015), followed by Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).

March 16, 2020, Lilly received criticism when she refused to self-quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, said it was “business as usual” on Instagram, and claimed that she values “freedom over life”. On 26 March, she apologized for her comments and called them “dismissive, arrogant, and cryptic”.

On January 27, 2022, she posted a photo on Instagram showing that she had taken part in a march against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Washington, D.C. and said that “nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will ” . She received backlash from figures including her Ant-Man co-star David Dastmalchian and fellow Marvel actor Simu Liu. On February 18, amidst the Canada convoy protest against federal vaccine mandates, she urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with the protestors.