Libby (Lost)

Libby
Lost character
Cynthia Watros as Libby in 2005.
First appearance	"Adrift" (stand-in) "Everybody Hates Hugo" (portrayed by Watros)
Last appearance	"The End"
Created by	J. J. Abrams Damon Lindelof
Portrayed by	Cynthia Watros
Centric episode(s)	Individual: None Shared: "The Other 48 Days" "Dave"
In-universe information
Full name	Elizabeth
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Occupation	Clinical psychologist
Nationality	American
Former residence	Newport Beach, California, United States

Libby is a fictional character on the ABC drama television series Lost, which chronicles the lives of over forty people after their plane crashes on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific.^[1] She is played by American actress Cynthia Watros. The character is introduced as a member of the tail section survivors in the second season episode "Everybody Hates Hugo", together with Bernard, and she ends her role as a living character in the episode "?".

After one posthumous flashback appearance in the Season 2 finale “Live Together, Die Alone”, she makes three further non-standard appearances as an apparition and bardo-like entity. Her backstory remains unresolved. Watros was intended to appear in two further episodes in the fourth season designed to resolve her character's backstory (after cameoing as a ghost). Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild Strike, those appearances were postponed to the sixth and final season, albeit in a different format.

Reception towards the character is generally positive, especially after her death. Her given name, Elizabeth, was revealed in the season 2 episode “Live Together, Die Alone”. A 2009 San Diego Comic-Con panel video listed her surname as "Smith", though this is never mentioned on-screen.

She is one of three main characters to never receive a flashback centric episode dedicated to the character (the others being Ilana Verdansky and Charlotte Lewis). Though the character has a brief flashback at the end of the episode "Dave" shown from her point of view.