Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle on LOST

Ian Somerhalder as Boone Caryle

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Ian Somerhalder:

Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978 in Covington, Louisiana, USA) is an American actor, model and producer. He modeled for Guess? jeans before making the leap into acting. His first major role was in The Rules of Attraction, Roger Avary's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name. He was a main cast member for the first season of the American television series Lost as the character Boone Carlyle. He is of Irish, French, English, and Native American descent.

He dated Nicky Hilton in 2003.

Boone Caryle:

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815
In flashback in "Abandoned", Boone surprises Shannon by appearing at her father's funeral. After the funeral, he offers her a drink and asks her where her "Marky Mark" poster is. Her age at the time is 18. When Shannon asks Boone if she can stay with him in New York, he tells her that he is moving back to L.A. He tries to help Shannon with her money problems by giving her money, but she does not accept.

Prior to the ill-fated plane flight, Boone Carlyle is the chief operating officer of his mother's wedding business. He is also the step-brother of Shannon, with whom he is secretly in love. Shannon is aware of Boone's feelings for her, and uses that knowledge to manipulate him into giving her money and attention. She accomplishes this by pretending to need rescuing from her abusive boyfriends so that Boone will "rescue" her and pay her boyfriends to leave her.

Boone and Shannon board Oceanic Flight 815 following another such incident in Australia. Just before their flight, Shannon arrives at Boone's hotel room, intoxicated, and seduces Boone into sleeping with her.

On the island
Boone becomes the protégé of John Locke, having initially followed him to hunt for Charlie and Claire after they are kidnapped by Ethan Rom. Locke and Boone then discover and dig up the metal hatch to a mysterious pod. Locke swears Boone to secrecy, claiming that the others are not ready to know about the hatch, and instructs Boone to tell them they were "hunting for boar." Locke is also instrumental in changing Boone's perception of his relationship with his step-sister. In "Deus Ex Machina", Locke has a vision-dream, in which Boone repeats the phrase, "Theresa falls up the stairs; Theresa falls down the stairs." Boone reveals that Theresa was his nanny as a child, upon whom he took out his frustration at the absence of his mother. She fell to her death down the stairs in his house while responding to his summons. The same dream (which Locke took to be a 'sign' from the island) leads the two to discover a heroin runner's Beechcraft stuck high up in the tree canopy. Boone climbs up into the aircraft and finds a working radio in the cockpit, which he uses to transmit a Mayday signal. He receives a response to his message, which causes him to stay in the aircraft longer than is safe. This act causes the aircraft to unbalance and crash nose-first into the ground, collapsing one of Boone's lungs as well as crushing parts of his lower body. In "The Other 48 Days", it is revealed that the response Boone receives is actually from the Tail-End survivors, but that Boone's transmission was dismissed by Ana-Lucia as a ploy from the Others.

Boone dies in "Do No Harm" of the injuries he sustains in the fall.

Boone frequently wears a t-shirt with the Chinese characters 八十四, meaning 84, which are two of the numbers that frequently appear throughout the show. Note that the numbers can also be read when literally inverted to read "48". 八十四 is pronounced "bā shí sì" which can also be interpreted as "likely death". This is also the shirt that Boone is wearing in Locke's vision of him, and the shirt he is wearing when he dies. The survivors bury Boone the next day.

Information and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org