Biography of Evangeline Lilly
Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses.. Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by the famous Ford modeling agency.


Evangeline Lilly trivia

  • When she was 18, Cate was on vacation in Egypt. A fellow guest at a cheap hotel in Cairo asked if she wanted to be an extra in a movie, and the next day she found herself in a crowd scene, cheering for an American boxer who was losing to an Egyptian. She dreaded the experience and walked off from the movie.
  • Her father, (Robert Blanchett) a Texan ad executive, died of a heart attack when she was ten years old.
  • Is of Mexican descent.

  • Was a marketing major at California State University Northridge where she dropped out to pursue acting.

  • Named #2 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.

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