Evangeline Lilly by Kwaku Alston for Parade Magazine

Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award, and 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.

She 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). Beginning with Ant-Man (2015), she has portrayed Hope van Dyne / Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most recently appearing in Avengers: Endgame (2019).