Evangeline Lilly was once best recognised for starring as the fan favourite Kate Austen in ABC series Lost.
When it originally aired in 2004, few likely anticipated the show's potential before finishing as an all-encompassing a phenomenon.
Kate Austen was the alluring, strong-willed love interest of both Jack and Sawyer on the island, where she spent most of her time remaining aloof and mysterious to conceal her troubled and violent past.
At completion in 2010, Lilly was recognised by viewers around the world as the fan favourite character in the award-winning portrayal, which bagged her a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Ahead of her esteemed roles on-screen, the Canadian actress once worked as waitress whilst at University ahead of her whopping fortune today - approximately £12m.
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Lily didn't just find her fortune as a breakout star on the popular ABC series, but she also found love.
She found love away from the camera with her on-screen Lost co-star, Dominic Monaghan - who plays character Charlie Pace.
The couple dated for three years before they decided to call it quits -ahead of her big role in the Hobbit franchise, Dominic let it slip that Lily had allegedly been unfaithful.
In 2013, he shared a tweet: "Evangeline looked unreal in the Hobbit, man oh man - nah. I don't date cheaters."
He added: "If I'm a douche because you don't like what I say that's not my concern. But I don't choose to lie on twitter #truthhurts".
After Lost wrapped, Lilly took a brief Hollywood hiatus before returning to screens to star as Tauriel in the Hobbit movies.
She starred as the strong female character in the series, appearing in The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).
During the same year, she revealed that she was the author of a children's book series, The Squickerwonkers.
Lilly has stated that the idea for the book first came to her when she was just 14 years old and took her inspiration from Dr Seuss - who she was "crazy about".
Marvel fans will best recognise Lilly as none other than Hope van Dyne and later the Wasp in the
Ant-Manfranchise alongside Paul Rudd since 2015.
The new role meant that the actress starred alongside incredible stars, including Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Hemsworth for the second highest grossing film of all time - Avengers: Endgame.
Many fans may be surprised to know that Lilly almost dropped her role in the Marvel series - after Edgar Close had left, she told Den of Geek that she was "very close" to leaving.
She said: "I was holding out on signing my contract until I got to see the script that was the crux of the divide between Edgar Wright and Marvel."
Ahead of Lily's whopping earnings as a Canadian actress and a published author, money didn't come easy to her - she worked as a flight attendant for Royal Airlines to pay for her tuition fees and it was far from glitz and glamour.
She told Metro: "I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit."
"Being up in those altitudes and working across different time zones really does take it out of you. It’s not healthy. I could feel that instantly," she added.
In addition to her role in the sky, the actress described herself as "mobile grease monkey", saying that oil changes and grease jobs on big trucks was "harder".
"I’d drive a one-tonne truck to parking lots and work on vehicles. It wasn’t glamorous. I was 21," she said.
"The pastor at my church had a company who did it. I was at university and I needed a job and he offered me one."
Steering far away from her days with grease and grime, Lilly will reprise her role as Hope in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is expected to release in July 2023.
