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DOB: June 13, 1981 (age 34)
POB: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
HEIGHT: 1.83 m
SIBLINGS: Scott Evans, Carly Evans, Shanna Evans
UNCLE: Michael E. Capuano
PARENTS: Lisa Evans, Bob Evans
CHRISTOPHER Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American
actor. Evans is best known for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics
characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Human Torch
in Fantastic Four.
He began his career on the 2000 television series Opposite
Sex, moving to film in 2001 with the teen comedy Not Another Teen Movie. In
2013, he starred as the lead in the critically acclaimed science fiction action
film Snowpiercer, and in 2015, he made his directorial debut with the drama Before
We Go, in which he also starred.
Early life
Chris Evans was born in Boston and raised in the town of
Sudbury. His mother, Lisa (Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord
Youth Theater, and his father, Robert Evans, is a dentist.
He has two sisters,
Carly, a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a high
school drama and English teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School,
Shanna, and a younger brother, Scott, who was featured on the ABC soap opera
One Life to Live.
Their uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts
Congressional district formerly represented by Tip O'Neill. His family has been
in America since the colonial era. His mother is of half Italian and half Irish
ancestry. He and his siblings were raised Catholic.
Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.He
moved to New York City and took classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film
Institute.
Career
In 1999, Evans was the model for ″Tyler″ in Hasbro's board
game Mystery Date. The special edition of the game included an electronic
phone, which Evans is shown speaking into on the game box.
After filming wrapped on Not Another Teen Movie, Evans
landed lead roles in The Perfect Score and Cellular, and then starred in two
independent films in Chicago: Dirk Wittenborn's Fierce People, playing the
sinister Bryce, and London, playing a strung-out drug user with relationship
problems. He then played the superhero the Human Torch in the 2005 comic book
adaptation Fantastic Four.
Evans reprised the role in the 2007 sequel Fantastic Four:
Rise of the Silver Surfer. That year, he starred as engineer-turned-astronaut
Mace in Danny Boyle's science-fiction film Sunshine.
In 2008, Evans appeared in Street Kings, co-starring Keanu
Reeves, and the Tennessee Williams screenplay adaptation The Loss of a Teardrop
Diamond, co-starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Ellen Burstyn.
The following year
he appeared in the science-fiction thriller Push, with Dakota Fanning and
Camilla Belle. Evans performed his own fight scenes, which took weeks to film,
and was bruised during filming.
In 2010, he completed filming on co-directors Mark Kassen
and Adam Kassen's Puncture in Houston, Texas. The film was selected to debut at
the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival as one of the Spotlight projects for the 10th anniversary
of the festival.
Also that year, Evans appeared in Sylvain White's The Losers,
an adaptation of the comic-book series from the DC Comics imprint Vertigo. Evans
then appeared in another comic-book adaptation, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim
vs. the World, where he portrayed Lucas Lee, one of Ramona Flowers' seven evil
exes.
In 2011, Evans played the Marvel Comics character Captain
America in Captain America: The First Avenger, and starred in the film What's
Your Number?, a romantic comedy co-starring Anna Faris.
There were initially
scheduling conflicts, as both films were set to film in the summer of 2010.
With actress Evan Rachel Wood, he was part of a 2011 advertising campaign for
the perfume Gucci Guilty, and the cologne Guilty pour Homme.
Evans had signed on to appear in multiple films as Captain
America, and first reprised the role in the 2012 film The Avengers. He next
starred opposite Michael Shannon in The Iceman, replacing James Franco, who had
dropped out. Evans wore a long wig and grew out a beard for the role. He
starred in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's English-language film
Snowpiercer.
In 2014, Evans starred in Captain America: The Winter
Soldier. He also starred opposite Michelle Monaghan in the romantic comedy
Playing It Cool. His directorial debut, Before We Go, debuted at the 2014
Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2015, he played Captain America again in Avengers: Age of
Ultron, and will reprise the role for the 2016 sequel Captain America: Civil
War. Evans said in March 2014 that once his contract with Marvel is up, he may
consider doing less acting so he could work more on directing, and believes he
will be finished playing Captain America in 2017.
In September 2015, however, he said in an
interview that he would be willing to sign on for more films as Captain America
after Infinity War, if Marvel wanted to extend his contract.
In 2016, he was featured with Evan Rachel Wood in a 2016 ad
for Gucci Guilty Eau fragrances."
Personal life
From 2001 to 2006, Evans dated actress Jessica Biel. Evans
has been very close friends with his frequent co-star Scarlett Johansson, with
the first of their six co-starring films being The Perfect Score in 2004.
He is also a supporter of LGBT rights. Although raised
Catholic, Evans has expressed pantheistic views and has a great interest in the
philosophies of Buddhism. Wikipedia
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Interview w/ Chris Evans
Sexy Chris Evans!
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