Chris Evans (actor)
Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his portrayal of Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the romantic drama Before We Go, which he also produced and starred in. Evans made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play Lobby Hero, which earned him a Drama League Award nomination.
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Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his portrayal of Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films. Evans began his career with roles in television series, such as in Opposite Sex in 2000. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the romantic drama Before We Go, which he also produced and starred in. Evans made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play Lobby Hero, which earned him a Drama League Award nomination. Evans was born on June 13, 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in the nearby town of Sudbury. His ancestry includes Italian and Irish. Evans has two sisters, Carly and Shanna, and a brother, actor Scott Evans. He and his siblings were raised Catholic. Evans’ uncle, Mike Capuano, represented Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district. He enjoyed musical theater as a child, and attended acting camp. Evans’s first credited appearance was in a short educational film titled Biodiversity: Wild About Life! in 1997. In 1999, Evans was the model for \”Tyler\” in Hasbro’s board game Mystery Date. In September 2000, he moved to Los Angeles and lived in Oakwood Apartments in Toluca Lake, a complex where he met fellow young actors. In 2001, he starred in Not Another Teen Movie, a parody of teen movies, in which he plays a high school footballer. In 2004, he had a lead role in The Perfect Score, a teen heist-comedy about a group of students who break into an office to steal answers to the SAT exam.
In 2005, Evans starred in the independent drama Fierce People, an adaptation of Dirk Witten’s novel of the same name. He also starred in a romantic drama, Gifted, and the mystery film Knives Out, and the television miniseries Defending Jacob. In 2011, he co-starred in the action-thiller Cellular, with Jason Statham, Kimasinger and William H. Macy, which received a mixed response, Slant Magazine’s review opined that Evans proves himself to be a sufficiently charismatic leading man. In a retrospective of his early films, Evans remarked that some early films were “really terrible”. He also had a role in the television series Opposite sex which lasted for eight episodes, and acted in an episode of The Fugitive named ”Guilt”. The film garnered mainly negative reviews, but grossed USD 38 million domestically and USD 28 million overseas for a worldwide USD 66 million. In 2013, he played the role of Human Torch in the film Fantastic Four, and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He portrayed the character in several MCU films, namely Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America The Winter Soldier, and Captain America : Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War. His work in theMarvel series established him as one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
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