Emilie was born 27th of December 1981, in Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia. Her zodiac sign is a capricorn and in the chinese horoscope she was born in the year of the rooster. Emilie is the youngest of three daughters; her half-sisters are 16 & 17 years older (making them 51 & 52 years of age). She has four nephews & one niece and is the great-granddaughter of French emigrants. She's got a few distinguishing features such as the scar on her temple by her left eye and a tattoo on the inside of her left wrist. She studied ballet since the age of nine at Christa Cameron School of Ballet in Melbourne, and was being home schooled by her mother, she was accepted into the Australian Ballet School at fifteen, where she performed in productions with The Australian Ballet as well as Danceworld 301. She studied acting at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, and with the Prime Time Actors Studio in Los Angeles. On 3 October 2015, de Ravin announced via Twitter that she was expecting her first child with her boyfriend Eric Bilitch. They already had a cat, Stanley, and 3 dogs; Louise, Beckett and Mable. On March 12, 2016, she gave birth to a baby girl named Vera Audrey de Ravin-Bilitch. The couple announced their engagement on July 6, 2016.