| Libby | |
|---|---|
| Lost character | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Libbylost.PNG) Cynthia Watros as Libby in 2005. | |
| First appearance | "Adrift" (stand-in) "Everybody Hates Hugo" (portrayed by Watros) |
| Last appearance | "The End" |
| Created by | |
| 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.
- ^ Fordis, Jeff, (January 22, 2007) "ABC Studios Lost Show Description Lead Press Release Page," ABC Medianet. Retrieved on April 12, 2008.