50 Fun Facts About Lost Girl

What kind of Fae is Bo, the Lost Girl heroine raised by a human family and unaware of her own nature?

A succubus heals by feeding on sexual energy, and until Lauren taught her control Bo could not do it without killing her partner.

Which New Brunswick-born actress played Bo, the lead role, in all five seasons of Lost Girl?

Anna Silk won the Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star in 2015, the year the series ended.

Dyson, the Light Fae cop who falls for Bo in Lost Girl, can shift into which animal?

A wolf shifter some 1,500 years old, Dyson owes his real loyalty to Trick rather than to the Ash.

Lost Girl was filmed on a soundstage and on location in and around which Canadian city?

Toronto was the base from the first season, when cameras rolled from April to late June 2010.

Which American cable channel picked up Lost Girl and aired its first two seasons back to back?

Syfy bought 26 episodes in May 2011 and launched the series in the United States the following January.

What relation is the barkeep Trick revealed to be to Bo near the end of Lost Girl's second season?

Her grandfather on her mother's side, Trick had set Dyson to watch over Bo long before he admitted the tie.

At the start of Lost Girl's fourth season, Bo wakes with no idea how she came to be aboard what?

A train, later revealed as a death train, carried Bo while her friends were made to forget her; she got away by jumping off.

Which Hollywood actor played Bo's long-absent father in Lost Girl's final season?

Eric Roberts, the brother of Julia Roberts, first shows his face in the mid-season finale End of Faes.

Ksenia Solo, Lost Girl's Kenzi, appeared in which Darren Aronofsky film the year Lost Girl began?

Black Swan was a natural fit, since Solo studied ballet until a back injury stopped her at 14.

In Lost Girl, what does Kenzi bring to the Norn's sacred tree to force her to undo a bargain?

A chainsaw held to her sacred tree made the Norn give back what she had taken from Dyson a season earlier.

Which Canadian specialty channel set a ratings record with the premiere of Lost Girl?

Showcase drew more than 400,000 viewers that night, its best launch to that point for a Canadian scripted series.

Bo's long-hidden father, who introduces himself as Jack in Lost Girl's final season, is which Ancient?

Hades rules the underworld realm of Tartarus in the series, and his wife Persephone is Bo's stepmother.

What line of work does Kenzi talk Bo into taking up with her in Lost Girl's first season?

Private investigation was Kenzi's way of turning Bo's neutrality and powers of persuasion into a living, with herself as partner.

Whose accidental death at teenage Bo's hands made her run away from home in Lost Girl?

Her boyfriend died when she drained his life energy without knowing what she was; only then did her parents say she was adopted.

Hale, the siren who works beside Dyson in Lost Girl, uses his power by doing what?

Whistling lets Hale pacify, heal or kill, and he once used it to cauterize a wound and save Kenzi's life.

Which ancient enemy of the Fae awakens in Lost Girl's second season to restart the war between Light and Dark?

The Garuda feeds on anger, turns into a giant fiery eagle and had lain dormant since the truce starved its kind.

What does the Norn take from Dyson in Lost Girl's first-season finale in return for lending Bo strength?

His ability to love went because the Norn takes whatever a person values most; Dyson had offered his animal side instead.

What human-world business does Evony, leader of the local Dark Fae in Lost Girl, run to feed on artists?

A talent agency brings Evony young musicians and artists, whose gifts she drains in exchange for fame.

Which title, borrowed from a figure of Irish mythology, belongs to the leader of the Dark Fae in Lost Girl?

The Morrigan can dissolve flesh with a touch, and her opposite number among the Light Fae is known as the Ash.

Which language, also spoken by actress Ksenia Solo, is Kenzi fluent in on Lost Girl?

Russian was written into the role because Solo, who was born in Riga, already spoke it.

Which writer created Lost Girl and later created the space bounty-hunter series Killjoys?

Michelle Lovretta ran the first season with Peter Mohan before both moved on, and had earlier written for Mutant X.

Emily Andras, Lost Girl's showrunner for seasons three and four, later created which cult genre series?

Wynonna Earp ran for four seasons, and Andras had been writing for Lost Girl since the first.

Tamsin, the Dark Fae bounty hunter who becomes Dyson's partner in Lost Girl's third season, is what?

A Valkyrie, Tamsin is reborn as a small girl in season four and grows up with Kenzi as her stand-in mother.

Vex, the sarcastic Dark Fae hit man played by Paul Amos in Lost Girl, is what kind of Fae?

A Mesmer can move other people like puppets against their will, even making them kill, and Vex lends that power to Bo's side in season two.

What kind of Fae kidnaps Kenzi and takes her place among Bo's friends in Lost Girl's third season?

A Kitsune copied Kenzi so well that the others locked Bo up on the impostor's word, until Tamsin exposed the fake.

What is the name of the Fae rite of passage that Bo must survive in Lost Girl's third season?

The Dawning sends Bo into a temple with Dyson at her side, and the only way out proves to be killing him.

Which council of Fae elders arrives in Lost Girl's fourth season to enforce the old laws by lethal means?

The Una Mens are wiped out before the season ends, killed by Bo and the rebel Rainer.

What is the true name of Bo's birth mother, who first appears in Lost Girl calling herself Saskia?

Aife spent centuries as a prisoner of the Dark Fae before escaping, and kills many of the Light Fae elders in the first-season finale.

Bo, the heroine of Lost Girl, is named after her grandmother, who bore which name?

Isabeau gives Bo her short name, a link she learns of late in the second season when the truth about her family comes out.

Under which title did Trick once rule the Fae and force the truce between Light and Dark in Lost Girl?

The Blood King earned the name because he can rewrite fate by writing it in his own blood, a power he is loath to use.

Which villain, known in Lost Girl as the Druid, kills Hale during the fourth season?

Massimo turns out to be Evony's son, handed to Vex to raise, and Hale dies shielding Kenzi from him.

By which name is Rainer, the rebel Fae foreshadowed through Lost Girl's third season, first known?

The Wanderer is at first taken for Bo's father, since the figure spirits her away at the end of the third season.

Which Lost Girl star, who played Lauren, won the 2014 Fan Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Screen Star?

Zoie Palmer won on the same night that Lost Girl itself was voted Favourite Canadian Show.

Kris Holden-Ried, who played Dyson in Lost Girl, was once on Canada's national team in which sport?

Pentathlon won him silver at both the Pan American and Pan Pacific championships; he was also a champion rider and fencer.

Emmanuelle Vaugier, Lost Girl's Evony, played a ballet teacher who nearly marries the lead of which sitcom?

Two and a Half Men used her in twelve episodes as the woman Charlie Harper almost married.

Which Smallville actor played Nate, Kenzi's musician sweetheart, in Lost Girl's second season?

Aaron Ashmore, Smallville's Jimmy Olsen, went on to star in Killjoys, from the creator of Lost Girl.

Lauren pledges herself to the Light Fae in Lost Girl seeking a cure after her girlfriend Nadia suffers what?

A coma struck Nadia in the Congo, and the Ash himself had secretly ordered the curse behind it to bind Lauren to him.

What name does Lost Girl give the life energy that Bo draws out through her partners' mouths?

Chi both feeds and heals Bo, and although Fae withstand the draining better than humans, it can still kill them.

Which surname does Bo carry in Lost Girl, taken from the human couple who adopted her?

Dennis comes from Sam and Mary, who raised her as Beth; on the run she also used the false name Bo Jones.

The studio behind Lost Girl asked for a show about a superhero of which sexual orientation?

Bisexual from the first pitch, Bo was written so that her orientation is plain to see yet never defines her or the show.

Lachlan, the stern new leader of the Light Fae in Lost Girl's second season, is which many-headed Fae?

A Naga's venom is the one thing that can kill the season's great enemy, so Lachlan has Lauren draw his for Bo to use.

Lauren admits in Lost Girl's fourth season that she went on the run after making what for her brother?

Pipe bombs she built for a campaign against pipelines killed eleven people at a site meant to be empty, so she fled under a new name.

What is the name of Trick's pub in Lost Girl, neutral ground where both Fae clans may drink?

The Dal Riata shares its name with a real Gaelic kingdom that once spanned western Scotland and northeastern Ireland.

Lauren sabotages Dr. Taft in Lost Girl's third season by giving him cells from which Fae instead of Dyson's?

A Cabbit's cells left Taft a feeble hybrid rather than the predator he wanted, and Dyson soon tracked him down.

What kind of six-chapter online prequel introduced Bo in the weeks before Lost Girl first aired?

A motion comic series began streaming on the show's website on August 20, 2010, about three weeks before the premiere.

In Lost Girl's fourth-season finale, Kenzi walks into the underworld portal after learning she is what to Bo?

Her heart was the price Bo had to pay to close the portal, and it turned out to mean Kenzi rather than the organ.

Who runs the Fae women's prison that Bo infiltrates in Lost Girl's third-season premiere?

Amazons guard the jail, where Bo's arrest is a ruse and Lauren is already undercover as the doctor.

In a second-season Lost Girl episode, tainted beer at Trick's pub makes Bo and her friends do what?

Swap bodies is what the whole bar does after an escaped prisoner spikes the beer so he can jump from one person to another.

Ksenia Solo's performance as Kenzi in Lost Girl won her which Canadian television prize in 2011?

A Gemini Award for featured supporting actress was her third; she had won two as a teenager for renegadepress.com.

Lachlan becomes the Ash in Lost Girl's second season by winning what kind of ritual contest?

A stag hunt decides it, and the quarry is no deer but a Light Fae prisoner named Sabine, whom Lachlan shoots.