Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian Golden Globe-nominated actress. She is best known for her role as Katherine "Kate" Austen in ABC's hit drama Lost. Lilly was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by 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. Despite being signed to Ford Models, she was never actually a fashion model. - "People don’t realise Ford has an acting branch”, she said, “So I was never really a model”. Nominated for a 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama (Lost) and for a 2007 Saturn Award for Best Actress on a Television Series (Lost). |