Quick Facts:

Full name: Evanna Lynch
Age: 16
Birthday: August 16th, 1991
Hometown: Termonfeckin
Height: 5 ft.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
School: Cartown National School
Parents: Marguerite and Donal Lynch
Siblings: Emily, older sister, and two other siblings, Patrick and Mairead
Starsign: Leo

“I promise all Luna fans that I will stay completely true to her because she deserves no less.”

More Facts about Evanna:

• Evanna named her cats after Harry Potter characters: she has a cat named Luna and one named Dumbledore. She also had another cat named Crookshanks, now deceased.
• She is a frequent visitor to the Harry Potter fan site MuggleNet, and she once called in to the popular Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast.
• She is a vegetarian and animal lover.
• Evanna likes making beaded jewelry. She made the radish earrings that her character wears in Order of the Phoenix herself.
• She attended both the London and Irish premiers of Order of the Phoenix.
• Evanna is good friends with fellow cast members Katie Leung, Bonnie Wright, and Emma Watson.
• Lynch beat more than 15,000 other girls to win the role of Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• She was given a hare and moon pendant by J.K. Rowling.
• At the James Joyce Awards in Dublin when asked “do you think about the film when you write?” Rowling answered “no”, but that “the only actor or actress who has ever, ever intruded while writing was Evanna Lynch, who is absolutely perfect as Luna. And I must admit I have heard her voice in my head when I wrote the book. I love Evanna she’s fantastic. She was perfectly cast, she was… she won’t mind me saying this, she is completely cool with this, she is Luna! She is very Luna-esque, in personality, and is just spot on for me.”
• Before clinching the role, Evanna wrote to J.K. Rowling telling her that she wanted to be Luna but she came from a sleepy place called Termonfeckin where nothing ever happened. Rowling wrote back encouraging her and told her not to be too disheartened that she herself came from a very sleepy place.

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