Career
She is widely known for her work as Doctor Liara T"Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy and Lightning in the Final Fantasy XIII series. At the age of six months, Hillis moved with her family to Normal, Illinois and at age 3, to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at age 13 and performed at The Children"s Theater.
She auditioned for Broadway plays in New York City with television shows of Felicity (2 episodes in 1999), FreakyLinks, Undressed (2000), Baywatch, Judge Advocate General, Boomtown and Less Than Perfect.
Her several film roles are All the Wrong Places, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Must Love Dogs, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Ultimate Gift, and The Heartbreak Kid and the Los Angeles play, A Good Soldier. Her video game roles are Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII, its sequels and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, Liara T"Soni in the Mass Effect trilogy, Ariel Hanson in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Karin in the Naruto series, Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising and Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair in Fuse.
In 2012, she starred in a YouTube web series called Fix Maine by ModernMom, in which she plays Sydney Language, a housewife who tries to fix everything around her.