Nicole Evangeline Lilly 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 . She is also known for her roles in films such as the psychological thriller Afterwards , the war film The Hurt Locker , and the scifi sports drama film Real Steel . She played an Elf, Tauriel, in the fantasy adventure series The Hobbit and Hope van Dyne in the superhero film AntMan.
Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, and raised in British Columbia by her mother and her father, a produce manager. Her father was raised in Nigeria, as her paternal grandparents were missionaries in Africa . Lilly has English and Irish ancestry one of her grandmothers was an English war bride.
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