Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress and fashion model who is currently starring in the American television series Lost as the character Kate Austen.

Evangeline Lilly was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by the famous Ford modeling agency. 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. She was previously featured in several LiveLinks Chatline television commercials in the United States, which were shown on David Letterman's Late Show when she was a guest, and on G4's Judgment Day.