Lini Evans

Lini Evans
File:Lini Evans Edgewater.jpg
Chinese name	伊韻絲 (traditional)
Born	Calgary, Canada
Occupation	Singer, Actress
Official 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.

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 1960's 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).

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.

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. She performs on Fairchild Television such as for their All-Star shows and 2008 Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant.

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

External links

• Official website
• Lini Evans at the Internet Movie Database
• Lini Evans on Twitter

• Fairchild Television