Chris Evans
| Chris Evans | |
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Evans at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
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| Born | Christopher Robert Evans June 13, 1981 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Relatives | Scott Evans (brother) Mike Capuano (uncle) |
Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981)[1] is an American actor. Evans is best known for his superhero roles as theMarvel Comics characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Human Torch in Fantastic Four.
Evans began his career on the television series Opposite Sex (2000), moving to film in 2001 with Not Another Teen Movie. In 2013, he starred as the lead in the film Snowpiercer, and in 2015 made hisdirectorial debut with Before We Go.
Early life
Chris Evans was born in Boston[2] and raised in the town ofSudbury.[3] His mother, Lisa (Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater,[4][5] and his father, Robert Evans, is a dentist.[6] He has two sisters, Carly,[6] a graduate ofNew York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a high school drama and English teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School,[4][7] Shanna,[6] and a younger[8] brother, Scott,[6] who was featured on the ABC soap operaOne Life to Live. Their uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts Congressional district formerly represented by Tip O'Neill.[9] His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry.[9][10][11] He and his siblings were raised Catholic.[10][11]
Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.[3] He moved to New York and took classes at theLee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.[12]
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.[13]
After filming wrapped on Not Another Teen Movie,[14] 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.[15] He then played the superhero theHuman Torch in the 2005 comic book adaptation Fantastic Four. Evans reprised the role in the 2007 sequelFantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.[16] That year, he starred as engineer-turned-astronaut Mace in Danny Boyle's science-fiction film Sunshine.[17]
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