Eliza Orlins

Eliza Orlins is a contestant from and.

She was known for being over paranoid about being eliminated during her first season, and her humorous, dramatic reactions and facial expressions during Tribal Councils. She is famous for her reactions, especially after a blindside occured. She is also known for her great performance during mental challenges.

Vanuatu
Eliza Orlins was born in New York City, where she grew up when not traveling to China with her family. When she was four years old, she and her parents went to Beijing, where they adopted her sister, Sabrina. Sixteen months later, her youngest sister, Emily, was born. Her father's career moved them to Hong Kong, where she attended Hong Kong International School. A couple of years later, her family moved back to New York until 1995, when they moved to Washington, DC She attended the Sidwell Friends School where she ran varsity track and cross country. She participated in the Marine Corps Marathon with the AIDS Marathon Training Program her junior year. At Sidwell, she also wrote and edited for the school newspaper and was the assistant director of the Spring Musical during her senior year. In summer 2004, Orlins interned at the Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Orlins is currently a senior at Syracuse University, where she is working a dual major in international relations and political science, with a minor in Chinese. She is a Dean's Scholar and has made Dean's List every semester. She is in the process of applying to law school and intends to be a public defender after graduation. She's a member of Alpha Phi Sorority and was the vice president of New Member Recruitment, for which they won the award for best overall recruitment at their national convention.

Orlins is also a member of the Golden Key Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She finished her Honor's Thesis and graduated in May 2005.

Orlins describes herself as an intense, vivacious, driven and politically active woman who loves reality television, sports and eating. She says she brings her competitiveness, speed, swimming skills and enthusiasm to Vanuatu and says that "people will underestimate me."

Her birth date is December 25, 1982.

Survivor: Micronesia
After a memorable appearance in Vanuatu Eliza returned for Survivor: Micronesia. Eliza began the game on the Malakal tribe, along with nine other fan-favorites. Early on, Eliza noticed the alliance of Parvati Shallow, James Clement, Amanda Kimmel, and Ozzy Lusth, which preempted her into forming an alliance with Yau-Man Chan, Jonathan Penner, and Ami Cusack against the "Couples". This act made her seem as a threat by Parvati's alliance, who conspired to vote her out during their first Tribal Council. However, this plan was put on hold when Jon Dalton asked the entire tribe to vote him out first in order to be with his expectant girlfriend.

When Eliza's alliance failed to convince Cirie Fields to join them, they found themselves as the minority, as Parvati's alliance (who Cirie sided with) voted for Yau-Man due to his experiences with the Hidden Immunity Idol.

During the Tribe Switch, Eliza's alliance was split, as she and Jonathan were switched to Airai, while Ami stayed on Malakal. However, she quickly lost her alliance member Jonathan when he was injured during a challenge and was forced to leave the game because the wound would soon cause a a fatal infection.

Eliza, feeling at a minority again, became friends with Jason Siska, who also felt at a minority with his tribe. Following the merge, Jason surprised Eliza when he told her that he found the Hidden Immunity Idol, which was actually a fake Idol that Ozzy planted when he found the Idol. Before the first individual Immunity Challenge, Jason told Eliza that if he would win the individual immunity, he would give Eliza the Idol in order to save her and eliminate Ozzy. Knowing it was not real, she still played it in hopes of exposing that Ozzy had the real one. However, since it was a fake idol, all votes against Eliza were counted and she was sent home, which made her 9th player voted out and the 1st member of the Jury.

Post-Survivor

 * Eliza currently writes reviews about Survivor on the website Reality Nation.

Trivia

 * Eliza was the youngest person on.
 * Eliza was the first person to go to Ponderosa, as Ponderosa started during, and she was the first member of the Jury.
 * Eliza is the only female contestant to be "victimized" by the Car Curse.
 * In Vanuatu, Eliza became the ninth contestant to win the Loved Ones Challenge, following Greg Buis, Tina Wesson, Lex van den Berghe, Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien, Helen Glover, Matthew von Ertfelda, Jon Dalton and Tom Buchanan.
 * In Micronesia, Eliza lost 11 lbs.
 * Eliza was born on Christmas.
 * She shares a birthday with Rob Mariano but Rob is older.
 * Eliza was the only female member of Dabu who was not a member of the Black Widow Brigade.
 * Eliza was the only person switched from Malakal to Airai to be voted out.
 * This is because James Clement and Jonathan Penner were medically evacuated and Parvati Shallow ended up making it to the Final Tribal Council.