» TRIVIA
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 (2007).
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 also painted her nails
blue with Harry Potter written on every second nail and the golden snitch on every
other one as well as sporting painted-on black Harry Potter glasses on.
She is a cat-lover who owns a cat named Luna. When Luna has kittens, she named one
of them Dumbledore. Her other cat Crookshanks died in 2006.
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
(2007). Her mother did not believe she had much of a chance of winning the role so
initially refused to let her apply.
[September 2006] She is in Third Year at Our Lady’s College, Greenhills, an all girls’
Catholic school located in Drogheda, Ireland. During her primary school years, she
attended Cartown National School.
She lives with her father Donal, mother Marguerite and elder sisters Emily and Máiréad
and younger brother Patrick in Termonfeckin, County Louth, Leinster, Ireland.
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.”.
Evanna Is a vegetarian.
Made the pair of radish earrings worn by her character Luna Lovegood in “Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix”.
Attends 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 was given a necklace with a hare and moon pendant by J.K. Rowling.
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