Emilie de Ravin

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Emilie de Ravin

Emilie de Ravin at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards

Born

27 December 1981 (age 26)
Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia

Awards won
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Ensemble - Drama Series 2005 Lost

Emilie de Ravin (pronounced [ˈɛməˌli: də ˈrævɪn])^[1] (born 27 December 1981)^[2] is an Australian actress. She is known for starring in the hit ABC drama Lost as the character Claire Littleton. De Ravin is also known for her role as Brendan Frye's heroin-addicted ex-girlfriend Emily in the neo-noir film Brick.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Early life

De Ravin was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia^[3] (a town to the south east of Melbourne). Her great-great-grandparents were French, who immigrated to Australia. De Ravin means from (the) ravine in French. Ravin also has British ancestry. Having studied ballet since the age of nine at Christa Cameron School of Ballet in Melbourne, and being home schooled by her mother, she was accepted into the highly selective Australian Ballet School at fifteen. There, she performed in productions with the Australian Ballet as well as Danceworld 301.^[4] De Ravin studied acting at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art,^[2] and with the Prime Time Actors Studio in Los Angeles.^[5]

[edit] Career

de Ravin at MuchMusic Video Awards 2007.

Emilie de Ravin's first major role was as Curupira in the TV series BeastMaster. Later, she played alien/human hybrid Tess Harding in Roswell. She landed this role one month after moving to Los Angeles^[4] at the age of 18. ^[6]She later starred in the hit ABC drama Lost, as the character Claire Littleton. In 2006 she starred in the horror film The Hills Have Eyes as Brenda Carter, and in the film Brick, a small film which was popular in the Sundance Film Festival. In 2007, she was honoured by the Australians In Film Council, joining such Australians as Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, and Hugh Jackman.^{[citation needed]} Variety.com reported that she will be staring in the film Ball Don't Lie.^[7] It was also reported that she will appear in The Perfect Game^[8] She's also been cast in Public Enemies as a bank teller named Anna Patzke.

She was cast in the movie adaption of the video game Onimusha. But due to producer Samuel Hadida's other project The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Heath Ledger's tragic death, Hadida was forced to push back Onimusha a first time and focus on getting his other project back on track instead. Onimusha got postponed for an unknown amount of time and there isn't any confirmation if de Ravin will continue the project. ^[9]

De Ravin married actor Josh Janowicz on 19 June 2006 and it was rumored that they separated after six months of marriage. De Ravin confirmed on the 28 April 2008 episode of the Opie and Anthony Show on XM Radio that she is still, in fact, happily married.