Cast Spotlight Emilie de Ravin

"I want to pursue as much of a serious acting career as I can, not just a flimsy overnight career. I take it very seriously and I really want to pursue it for the rest of my life."

Emilie was born on December 27, 1981 and grew up in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia. She dropped out of the highly prestigious Australian Ballet School in Melbourne in order to enroll in acting classes.

In 1999, Emilie landed her first major role as Curupira in BeastMaster. Later that year, she joined the cast of the TV show Roswell as Tess, an alien human hybrid. In 2004, she was cast in her most well known role, that of Claire Littleton on the Emmy award winning TV series Lost. She has also had guest roles on both CSI Miami (2002) and The Handler (2003).

Her movie credits include mean girl Chris in the TV movie Carrie (2002), the mutant killer Brenda in the remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mary MacKenzie in black comedy Santa’s Slay (2005) and as Emily Kostich, a herion addicted ex-girlfriend in the Sundance screened and award winning indie film neo-noir murder mystery, Brick (2005).

This year saw the Lifetime Network premiere of High Noon (2009), where Emilie played Lt. Phoebe McNamara, a hostage negotiator, and will see the release of Public Enemies (2009), a John Dillinger story where Emilie stars with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale as Anna Patzke, a book keeper from the American Bank and Trust Co, who was taken hostage during the getaway.

Emilie has also been seen in Balls Don't Lie (2009), The Perfect Game (2009), Rogue's Gallery (2009), The Chameleon (2009) and Guardian's of Ga'Hoole (2009).