Evanna Lynch -

Name : Evanna Lynch
Date of Birth : 16 August 1991 (1991-08-16) (age 17)
Place of Birth : Termonfeckin, Ireland
Occupation : Actress
Years Active : 2007—present

Evanna Lynch (born 16 August 1991) is an Irish actress, known for playing Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Lynch is from Termonfeckin, County Louth, Ireland. She lives with her father Donal, mother Marguerite, elder sisters Máiréad and Emily, and younger brother Patrick.

As of September 2008, she is in her fifth year at Our Lady's College, Greenhills, an all girls' Catholic school located in Drogheda, Ireland. While filming however, she does not attend Greenhills but is tutored on set. During her primary school years, she attended Cartown National School. She has been attending CTYI[5] and completed a 'Speculative Fiction' course. She returned to CTYI for Session 2 in 2008, with her subject choice being Drama.

It was revealed on 2 February 2006 that Lynch, who was then fourteen, had been cast as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix after her father flew her to London for the open audition for the role, beating nearly 15,000 girls in the auditions. She began the actual filming of Order of the Phoenix at the end of February at Leavesden Studios in England.

The open call was made because the producers felt that a conventional actress would not be suitable for the role of the eccentric Luna Lovegood. As producer David Heyman recounted in the ITV2 documentary, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Behind the Magic", "We had three girls who we thought would be good, but they were going to act Luna, they weren't going to be Luna."