Lini Evans

Lini Evans is a Canadian singer and actress. She starred 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]

Lini Evans
Born
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
OccupationSinger, Actress
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese伊韻絲
Musical career
GenresMultilingual, jazz, adult contemporary
Websitewww.linievans.com

A favorite televised 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. Episode 8 was named after this song and directed by Karyn Kusama. Her version of the song will be included on her upcoming multilingual music album.

Among numerous roles on Film & TV, she played Alan Thicke's fiancée in Stop the Wedding, Nicola Peltz's mother Amelia Martin on Bates Motel, and Debra Harper on Supernatural. She has reprised roles for several successful TV movies.

Residing in Vancouver, B.C. and performing worldwide, Calgary-born Evans sings in eight languages including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. She has performed for Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, Japanese royalty in Kobe and in Mandarin with Han Lei for the finale duet of renowned Our Chinese Heart concert at Rogers Arena.[3][4][5]

Other prominent performances were in China on Beijing Media Network with acclaimed Dashan and in Taiwan with Asian pop titans Andy Lau and A-Mei for President Ma Ying-jeou and 30,000 people at an outdoor concert for The Broadcasting Corporation of China.[6] She performs on Fairchild Television for All-Star shows and Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant.[7]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Untold Stories of the E.R. Mrs. Smith Episode: "Death Breath"
2010 Smallville Reporter Episode "Luthor"
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
2014–2015 Bates Motel Amelia Martin 3 episodes
2014 The Talent Susan Episode: "Talented"
2014 The Tree That Saved Christmas Betty Logan TV movie (UP)
2014 Rush Moderator Episode: "You Spin Me Around"
2015 Love, Again Brittany Hoffbrauer TV movie (Hallmark)
2015 The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story Candy Spelling TV movie (Lifetime)
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 (Lifetime)
2016 Who Killed My Husband Jean Howell TV movie (Lifetime)
2016 Unleashing Mr. Darcy Linda Scott TV movie (Hallmark)
2016 Stop the Wedding Belle TV movie (Hallmark)
2016 Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery Saleswoman TV movie (Hallmark)
2017 Walking the Dog Barb TV movie (Hallmark)
2017 The Arrangement Sue TV series
2017 Harvest Love Grace Gilson TV movie (Hallmark)
2018 Marrying Mr. Darcy Linda Scott TV movie (Hallmark)
2018 Falling for You Patty Hathaway TV movie (Hallmark)
2019 Last Stand to Nowhere Sadie Brown Film
2019 Darrow & Darrow 4: Burden of Proof Carol Morrison TV movie (Hallmark)
2019 Christmas Unleashed Bev Hutton TV movie (Lifetime)

References
  1. Hale, Mike (21 November 2014). "Christmas With Death, Heels and Uplift". The New York Times.
  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. Sin, Lena (23 April 2009). "Gala evening showcases Shanghai". The Province. Canada.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  4. Andrews, Marke (20 April 1999). "Multilingual Evans to sing for Zhu". The Vancouver Sun. p. B10.
  5. Parry, Malcolm (31 October 2002). "Town Talk". The Vancouver Sun. p. B3.
  6. "Multilingual vocalist start in RAPBA's annual gala". The Review. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  7. Fairchild Television Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
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