Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian Golden
Globe-nominated actress. She is known for her role as Kate Austen
in the ABC drama Lost. Lilly was born in Fort Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Canada, to a devoutly Christian family. Her father is a
home economics teacher, and her mother is a beauty consultant.
Lilly also has a younger sister, Andrea, whom she has described as
"the actor in the family". During her childhood, the family did not
have a television.[1] Before leaving the city of Fort Saskatchewan
at the age of 10, she attended three elementary schools. She
briefly attended Fort Elementary, Rudolph Henning and James Mowat
Elementary. During a phone interview with the local paper, The
Record, Evangeline was quoted saying, "When I was a kid, the Fort
was tiny. I could ride my bike at five years old from one end of
town to the other ... To me Fort Saskatchewan holds a lot of really
great memories. I just consider it a little happy hideaway." Lilly
served briefly as a foreign missionary and lived in a grass hut in
the Philippines at the age of 18. She was offered a missionary post
there for two years, an offer she nearly accepted but eventually
declined because of her parents' wishes. Lilly is a former flight
attendant of Air Canada,[3] and speaks French fairly well
