Lini Evans

Lini Evans
Background information
Chinese name 伊韻絲 (traditional)
Born Calgary, Canada
Occupation Singer, Actress
Website www.linievans.com

Lini Evans is a Canadian singer and actress. She stars alongside Lacey Chabert in one of The New York Times' Top 5 Holiday TV movies "The Tree That Saved Christmas" which set records as the highest rated Up original movie of all-time and was directed by David Winning.[1][2]

A favourite role for Lini was singing her own Japanese version of The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song) in Season One of Amazon Studios' series The Man in the High Castle. Well known as a 1960s song covered by numerous artists, Lini wrote the Japanese lyrics along with translator Tsuyoshi Kawasaki. Episode 8 was named after this song and was directed by Karyn Kusama.

Among other roles on Film & TV, she plays Nicola Peltz's mother Amelia Martin on Bates Motel, Debra Harper on Supernatural, and was Annie Hastings on J.J. Abrams' series Alcatraz. Lini starred opposite Teri Polo and Paul Johansson in The Hallmark Channel movie Love, Again (formerly titled The Last Resort). [3]

Residing in Vancouver, B.C., and traveling world-wide, Calgary-born Evans sings in eight languages including Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese. She has performed for Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Japanese royalty and with Han Lei for the Mandarin duet finale of renowned Our Chinese Heart concert at Rogers Arena.[4][5][6]

Other prominent performances were on national television in China with Dashan and with Asian pop titans Andy Lau and A-Mei in Taiwan for President Ma Ying-jeou and 30,000 people at an outdoor concert for The Broadcasting Corporation of China.[7] She performs on Fairchild Television such as for their All-Star shows and 2008 Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Little Samantha Tripp Miss Tripp Film
2007 Maybe He’ll Catch Fire Mom Film
2008 Rewind TV Newscaster Film
2010 Untold Stories of the E.R. Mrs. Smith Episode: "Death Breath"
2010 Smallville Reporter Episode "Luthor"
2011 Kept Bethany Film
2011 Fairly Legal Mrs. Gardner Episode "Benched"
2011 Jake and Jasper: A Ferret Tale Mrs. Tyler Film
2012 Alcatraz Annie Hastings Episode: "Guy Hastings"
2012 Supernatural Debra Harper Episode: "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie"
2012 Untold Stories of the E.R. Donna Jornlin Episode: "Never Say Die"
2012 Health Nutz Beatrice Woolawoo Episode: "Beatrice Woolawoo"
2012 Arctic Air TV Reporter Episode: "The Professional"
2012 Do You Really Want to Know? Mary-Lou Roder Documentary
2012 Arrow Business Suit Episode: "Lone Gunmen"
2013 Health Nutz Beatrice Woolawoo Episode: "Juice, Jesus and Rock & Roll"
2013 Kill For Me 911 Operator Film
2014 Kits Ms. James TV movie
2014 Bates Motel Amelia Martin Episode: "Gone But Not Forgotten"
2014 The Talent Susan Episode: "Talented"
2014 The Tree That Saved Christmas Betty Logan TV movie
2014 Rush Moderator Episode: "You Spin Me Around"
2015 Bates Motel Amelia Martin Episodes: "Crazy" and "Unconscious"
2015 Love, Again Brittany Hoffbrauer TV movie
2015 The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story Candy Spelling TV movie
2015 "The Man in the High Castle" Nightclub Singer Episode "The End of the World"
2015 The Unauthorized Melrose Place Story Candy Spelling TV movie
2016 Under Fire Jean Peterson TV movie
2016 Unleashing Mr. Darcy Linda Scott TV movie

References

  1. ↑ Hale, Mike (21 November 2014). "Christmas With Death, Heels and Uplift". The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
  2. ↑ "The Tree That Saved Christmas Sets Record As Highest Rated UP Original Of All-Time Reaches 2.1 Million Viewers". UPtv-Press Releases 2014 Archives. 3 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Petski, Denise (23 March 2015). "Teri Polo, Paul Johansson Join 'Last Resort'". Deadline.com.
  4. ↑ Sin, Lena (23 April 2009). "Gala evening showcases Shanghai". The Province. Canada.com.
  5. ↑ Andrews, Marke (20 April 1999). "Multilingual Evans to sing for Zhu". The Vancouver Sun. p. B10.
  6. ↑ Parry, Malcolm (31 October 2002). "Town Talk". The Vancouver Sun. p. B3.
  7. ↑ "Multilingual vocalist start in RAPBA's annual gala". The Review. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  8. ↑ Fairchild Television
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