Evangeline Lilly: "Angelina Jolie is My Role Model"  5/8/06

Evangeline Lilly models herself on Angelina Jolie and dreams of following in the campaigning actress' footsteps.

The Lost beauty insists she shares Jolie's passion for charitable causes and her love of children too.

Lilly, who is dating Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan, says, "She's a phenomenal example to young women because she's a successful career woman, a humanitarian and a mother too.

"The concept of acting in movies, being an international delegate for the UN, adopting children and being a mother is so much responsibility. I have a lot of respect for her.

"If I could take one item to a desert island with me it would be a child to keep me going. I've been working with children for the last ten years in so many different places and I love it.

"It's something that drives me. When I was a young girl I used to say I wanted between twelve and twenty kids. Children will always be a huge part of my life."