<P> Dr. Daniel Faraday is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies . Faraday is introduced in the Season 4 premiere as a physicist from the Queen 's College , University of Oxford . He suffers from short - term memory loss , possibly due to his experiments with radioactivity . He is part of the team aboard the freighter Kahana that is offshore the island . Throughout his time on the series , Faraday plays an important role by sharing his knowledge of time travel . After time traveling to 1977 , Faraday is shot and killed by Eloise Hawking ( Alice Evans ) who is unaware that he is her son . </P>
<P> Dr. Daniel Faraday is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies . Faraday is introduced in the Season 4 premiere as a physicist from the Queen 's College , University of Oxford . He suffers from short - term memory loss , possibly due to his experiments with radioactivity . He is part of the team aboard the freighter Kahana that is offshore the island . Throughout his time on the series , Faraday plays an important role by sharing his knowledge of time travel . After time traveling to 1977 , Faraday is shot and killed by Eloise Hawking ( Alice Evans ) who is unaware that he is her son . </P>
who plays daniel faraday 's mother on lost
who plays daniel faraday 's mother on lost
Alice Evans
Alice Evans