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 (especially when Ozzy was blindsided). She is also known for her great performance during mental challenges and her conflict with tribes mate Twila Tanner while on Vanuatu.

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.

Micronesia
Eliza Orlins was born in New York City to parents Susan and Steve. She grew up splitting her time between NYC and China. 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 spent two years attending Hong Kong International School. Her family then moved back to New York until 1995 when they moved to Washington, D.C. In 2001, Orlins graduated from the Sidwell Friends School where she ran varsity track and cross country. She also completed 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 "Damn Yankees."

In 2005, Orlins graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University in international relations and political science and a minor in Chinese. At Syracuse, she was a Dean's Scholar and made Dean's List every semester. Orlins also received Phi Beta Kappa honors upon her graduation. As a member of Alpha Phi Sorority, she was the vice president of New Member Recruitment, for which her chapter won the award for best overall recruitment at their national convention.

Orlins is currently a third-year student at Fordham University School of Law and will graduate with her J.D. in December 2008. At Fordham, Orlins participates in many school activities. She describes herself as insanely over-committed, but happy. She is the Co-Intraschool Editor of the Brendan Moore Trial Advocates (Fordham's Mock Trial Team), the Co-Symposium Editor for the Urban Law Journal and the President of the Fordham Law Democrats. For the Moores, Orlins has competed in multiple trial advocacy competitions, bringing home an individual award for Best Opening Statement at the National Trial Advocacy Competition held at Michigan State University in Fall 2006. For the Urban Law Journal, Orlins and her co-editor are currently planning a symposium on the constitutionality of lethal injection.

Orlins has worked for the Legal Aid Society, criminal defense division, Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, a large New York law firm, and interned for a New York Supreme Court Judge.

Orlins describes herself as an intense, vivacious, driven and politically-active woman who loves reality television, sports, especially New York and Syracuse teams, and her puppy Oscar. She says she brings her competitive nature, athleticism and enthusiasm to SURVIVOR.

Orlins currently lives in Manhattan with her boyfriend Justin and her Yorkshire Terrier, Oscar. Her birth date is December 25, 1982.

Survivor: Vanuatu
Upon arriving on the beach Eliza Orlins noticed quickly that the men and the women were being separated. She also realized that the men were the ones in the center of the action, despite supposedly everyone being a part of the opening ceremony. Once it was over, the tribes were divided by gender. Eliza's tribe was called Yasur. On the way to the camp, some of the member wanted wait until morning to find the camp. Eliza along with Twila Tanner disagreed. Eventually, the women reached the camp that night. Eliza quickly befriended the other younger girls(Julie Berry, Dolly Neely and Mia Galeotalanza). Twila and Scout Cloud Lee were annoyed by the girls' constant talking, with Eliza being deemed the most annoying. At the first Immunity Challenge, The women was able to win the challenge because of Chris Daugherty's inability to cross the balance beam. The women was also able to win the next Reward Challenge and blankets. At this point, the tribe was divided by youth and work ethic. The young women were joined by Lisa Keiffer. The women lost the Immunity Challenge and Eliza was in danger due to her constant talking. Dolly shifted the vote to Leann Slaby because of her flying under the radar. However, When she talked to Dolly, Eliza was left with the impression Dolly was going to flip and vote out Eliza. Although Dolly stayed loyal to the young girls, Eliza helped blindside her.

Eliza immediately rejoin her original alliance, but they were still wary of her. At the next challenge, it was revealed that both tribes would go to Tribal Council. Yasur lost the reward part of the challenge had to watch the Lopevi men compete for immunity. In a twist, The winner, John Kenney, stayed with the women until just before the vote to give one of them immunity. John separated the girls by who voted out Dolly to expose alliances. Eliza immediately explained her side of the story, unknowingly annoying him as too. Mia wanted Twila out due to a recent argument with her. Eliza suggested voting Scout out for being a detriment in challenges, but Mia didn't relent. At  Tribal Council, John gave immunity to Ami Cusack and Mia was blindsided in 5-3 vote. Lisa flipped to the older women's alliance because she didn't trust Eliza. The women won the next two challenges, with Eliza being the one responsible for the immunity win.

On Day 11, local tribesman came to the two camps and asked for a tribe chief. The women elected Scout due to being the wisest and the eldest. Later, it was the that the tribes were switching. Scout placed Eliza with Bubba Sampson, Leann, Rory Freeman, and Ami. Sarge Masters deemed the other group Lopevi. After being unpicked, Lisa willingly went to Yasur. Yasur went on a losing streak. Bubba was the first to go due to telling Chris to "remember the merge" in earshot of Ami while at the Immunity Challenge. At the second Reward Challenge after the switch, Eliza was a hindrance  and Yasur lost again. Rory felt that Eliza's poor performance would give him the ability to crack Ami's alliance. Eliza was unable to perform at the Immunity Challenge due to Leann's struggle in the underwater obstacle course. However, It would be Lisa who become the target because she asked Ami how to gather food "just in case". Yasur was able to make a comeback to win the next two challenges, winning a trip to a coffee house and immunity. The next challenge, Lopevi won milk, cookies and chocolate cake.

The next challenge was for individual immunity and the tribes had merged. Eliza barely beat out Chris for a spot in the final round but lost immunity to Sarge. Everyone moved to the Lopevi and was ecstatic to have a feast to await them. Under Ami's influence, Twila and Julie flipped to the women and blindsided Rory in a 6-4 vote. In the immediately following challenge, Eliza the first woman out. She was angered by being in the bottom. Leann would win the challenge and bring Julie with her. When the women returned, they indulged on chicken wings leftover, leaving the men only tips. At the Immunity Challenge, Eliza was the first woman out again. Ami won immunity and made sure the women stayed strong. Sarge was voted out, with his vote going to Eliza.

At this point, Scout was fed up with Eliza and plotted with the men to oust her. At the Reward Challenge, Eliza's team won the challenge. They went to local village and indulged in the culture and food. When they returned, Eliza noticed sometime was up due to Julie's behavior. At the Immunity Challenge, Twila defeated Chad Crittenden for the win. At Tribal Council, Eliza was question by Jeff for bringing her bag at every Tribal Council. He referred her as the girl who cried wolf. She countered by the fact that she was considered to be voted out every time and it was valid 100%. When the vote came, the women held strong and Eliza was spared.

The next challenge was the Loved Ones Challenge, with the winner getting an online chat with their loved one. Eliza beat out Julie to spend time with mother, Susan. However, her mother and the other loved ones was on location and Eliza would spend a whole day with her mom. Eliza explained that she was nearly voted out for talking too much. Once she had to leave, Susan gave her daughter the shirt off her back because she needed one. Eliza was worried the visit would make the others jealous. The loved ones returned for the Immunity Challenge. Ami won the challenge with her girlfriend, Chrissy. Later after the challenge, Chris came to her and told her that Julie claimed that Eliza was the one going home. Chris pleaded with Eliza to vote with him, Twila and Scout to eliminate Leann. Eliza had her reservations but she agreed. Chris was right as she received the other votes, however Leann was blindsided.

Ami was angered the Twila and Scout for the betrayal. At the Reward Challenge, the castaways would be competing for a Pontiac G60 and a trip to a spa. Eliza was able to beat out Ami for the car and the girls were joined by Chris at the spa. Both Ami and Chris talked strategy with Eliza. Chris defeated Ami for individual immunity. Eliza considered flipping to Ami and Julie to vote out Scout. At Tribal Council, Eliza agreed that Twila's swearing on her son's name was immoral but still voted out Ami.

Julie and Eliza started to realign themselves and hoped that Chris would join them. Julie won the Reward Challenge and took Chris with her. While trapped with Twila and Scout, they annoyed either to no end. Eliza declared she was done with both of them. When Chris returned, they talked. During the conversion, Chris said they were going to final three. Eliza simply corrected him by saying final two, which he hastily agreed. Eliza won the Immunity Challenge. Afterwards, Chris was weighing his options between Julie and Twila. Twila caught Eliza talking about voting her out, leading to a major argument. At Tribal Council, Eliza was shocked when Julie was blindsided. After the Tribal Council, Twila and Eliza accused each other of being undeserving of coming this far. Eliza talked to Chris and he claimed that his vote was the alliance. Eliza was amazed by who was in the final four. Eliza prayed that she would win immunity, however Chris was victorious. Eliza was happy as she thought Chris and herself were going to Day 39. Unfortunately for Eliza, Chris deemed Eliza too much of a threat to win the final Immunity Challenge and the jury vote. Eliza was voted out on Day 37. As her torch is snuffed, Eliza glared at Chris, who nonchalantly waves goodbye.

At Final Tribal Council, Eliza gave a long ranting speech about how deceptive the finalists was. Afterwards, Eliza demanded an apology. Twila refused to give her such while Chris did. Because he apologized and she liked him better, Eliza voted for Chris to win.

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.

At Final Tribal Council, Eliza complimented finalists Parvati and Amanda on their strategic gameplay, but criticized Parvati for being mean and Amanda for being superficial. She gave her jury vote to Parvati who would win 5-3.

Post-Survivor

 * Eliza used to write reviews about Survivor on the website Reality Nation. As of Survivor: Caramoan, she no longer writes reviews.
 * On January 9, 2010, Eliza attended Survivor's 10-year anniversary party along with all of her Vanuatu cast mates.
 * On May 12, 2015, Eliza appeared on an episode of 'Dr. Oz Show' with her dog Oscar.

Trivia

 * Eliza was the youngest person on.
 * 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.
 * Eliza is the first female contestant to win a car in a challenge and the first female to be a victim of the Car Curse.
 * Eliza became the first person to be the fifteenth person voted out of a season. Although Rupert Boneham in was the first person to be the fifteenth person eliminated from a season, two people quit the game.
 * Whenever Eliza received votes a Tribal Council, she voted against someone that voted for her.
 * Eliza was born on Christmas and shares her birthday with Rob Mariano.
 * Eliza agreed to compete on Micronesia if contacted before her semester started.Eliza dropped her courses before any penalty can be applied when called back.
 * Eliza is famous for the line "It's a F*cking Stick".
 * Eliza was the first person to be featured in a Ponderosa Video, as Ponderosa Videos started during , and she was the first member of the Jury.
 * 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 while Parvati Shallow ended up making it to the Final Tribal Council.
 * In Micronesia, Eliza lost 11 lbs.
 * Eliza is the only Favorite who made the merge in Micronesia that has yet to return for a third time.
 * Eliza and her mother were considered for, but weren't chosen.