Juliet Burke

Dr. Juliet Burke (née Carlson) is a character portrayed by Elizabeth Mitchell on the ABC television series Lost. Created by J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, the character was introduced in the third season as a member of the hostile group referred to as "the Others" by the crash survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. Flashbacks reveal Juliet's past as a research specialist recruited to solve the Island's fertility problem where pregnant women die after conception. Prevented from leaving the Island and seeing her sister again by Ben Linus until she finds a solution, she quickly betrays Ben and the Others when she is sent as a spy to the survivors' camp. Juliet initially grows close to the castaways' leader, Jack Shephard, but ultimately falls in love and forms a relationship with James "Sawyer" Ford, with whom she moves on to the afterlife in the series finale. The character has also appeared in several spin-off webisodes of Lost: Missing Pieces, with Mitchell reprising her role. Both Mitchell's performance and the character of Juliet have received significant praise from fans and critics. Juliet is widely considered the series' best female character, and Mitchell was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2010. Character biography As a child, Juliet Carlson was devastated to learn her parents (Michael Trisler and Amy Stewart) were getting a divorce; her mother explained that although they loved each other, they were not meant to be together. Juliet grew up to become a fertility doctor living in Miami, Florida, with her sister Rachel Carlson (Robin Weigert). Under her married name of Juliet Burke, she worked for her ex-husband Edmund Burke (Željko Ivanek) as a researcher at Miami Central University. She performed unauthorised experiments attempting to restore Rachel's fertility, as her reproductive system had been ravaged by chemotherapy and rendered sterile. Juliet even managed to impregnate a male mouse during a test trial, though it did not carry to term. In 2001, Juliet is approached by Richard Alpert (Néstor Carbonell) of Mittelos Bioscience who offers her a job in Portland, Oregon. Stating that Edmund would never allow her to leave the university, Juliet sarcastically jokes she would only be able to accept the offer "if he were hit by a bus". Juliet learns from Rachel that her experiments worked as she is finally pregnant.