Biography

Name: Evanna Lynch (despite rumours and popular belief, her middle names are NOT Meghan Naomi)
Date of Birth: 16 August 1991
Hometown: Termonfeckin, Louth, Ireland
Height: About 5'2"
Parents: Marguerite and Donal Lynch
Siblings: Emily and Mairead are her older sisters, and Patrick is her younger brother
Pets: Cats named Crookshanks (the mother, who died early 2006) Luna, and Dumbledore
Star sign: Leo
Chinese Zodiac: Sheep
Bedroom: Orange with her favourite Harry Potter quotes in turquoise
School: She is in Fifth Year at Our Lady's College, Greenhills, an all girls' Catholic school located in Drogheda, Ireland. For primary school she attended Cartown National School

Facts:

• On January 23rd 2006, she discovered she had beaten out over 15,000 girls, from all over the United Kingdom and Ireland, for the much coveted role of Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

• In 2003, aged eleven years old, Evanna was disappointed that she would miss the release of the novel "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" as she had been hospitalised. However, the hospital released her for a morning on the day of the launch where a local bookstore arranged for her to receive a copy that was signed by author J.K. Rowling. On the day, Evanna was dressed in a Harry Potter t-shirt and having scrawled 'I love Harry Potter' down her arms. She had painted her nails blue, with her nails alternating between the golden snitch and Harry Potter written on, as well as sporting painted-on black Harry Potter glasses on.

• She was a fan of the Harry Potter novels long before being cast in the films. She claims to have read the books several times.

• Her father flew her to London to the open audition for the part of Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Her mother say she had not a “snowball’s chance in hell” of getting the part so initially did not support her going to the open auditions.

• As a younger child, she continuously wrote to JK Rowling and, in one such letter, commented about how much she would love to act in a Harry Potter film but doubted this would happen as she lived in this sleepy little place called Termonfeckin, where nothing ever happened. And to Evanna's surprise, Rowling wrote back, "Don't be too hard on Termonfeckin; it does have a brilliant name! And I come from a very sleepy place.”

• Is a vegetarian.

• Made the pair of radish earrings worn by her character Luna Lovegood in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", and helped design the lion hat worn in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood-Prince”

• Attended a summer camp in Dublin, Ireland called CTYI (Centre for Talented Youth of Ireland) which was specially set up for the academically talented children in Ireland. She studied speculative fiction.

• She was given a necklace with a hare and moon pendant by J.K. Rowling.

• Took lessons in Electric Guitar

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