Libby (Lost)
character from the American mystery fiction television series Lost
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. 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.
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