Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor known for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Marvel's The Avengers (2012). He will reprise this role in 2014 in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Evans began his career on the television series Opposite Sex (2000) and later transitioned to film, appearing in Not Another Teen Movie (2001), Fierce People (2005), Push (2009), The Losers (2010), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), and What's Your Number? (2011).

 

Early life

Chris Evans was born in Massachusetts and raised in the town of Sudbury.His mother, Lisa Marie (née Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater, and his father, G. Robert "Bob" Evans III, 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,Shanna, and a younger brother, Scott,who was featured on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Their maternal uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts Congressional district formerly held by Tip O'Neill.His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry.

 

Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.He and his siblings were raised Catholic.

 

Career

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 known as the Human Torch in the 2005 comic book adaptation Fantastic Four. Evans reprised the role of the Human Torch 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.Also that year, Evans was ranked 474th in Forbes' "Star Currency" rankings, based on films' global box-office performance.

 

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 exes.Evans played the Marvel Comics character Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger, reprised the role in the film The Avengers, and has been signed to at least two sequels to Captain America.The first sequel to Captain America, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is currently in development and set for release on April 4, 2014.

Evans starred in the film What's Your Number?, a romantic comedy co-starring Anna Faris.

 

With actress Evan Rachel Wood, he is part of the advertising campaign for the perfume Gucci Guilty,and the cologne Guilty pour Homme.Evans is a supporter of gay rights.

 

Personal life

From 2004 to 2006, Evans dated actress Jessica Biel and began dating Minka Kelly in August 2012 after briefly dating her in 2007. 

Filmography

Film and television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Newcomers, TheThe Newcomers	Judd
2000	Opposite Sex	Cary Baston	TV series
2000	Fugitive, TheThe Fugitive	Zack Lardner	TV series (1 episode: "Guilt")
2001	Boston Public	Neil Mavromates	TV series (1 episode: "Chapter Nine")
2001	Not Another Teen Movie	Jake Wyler
2002	Eastwick	Adam	TV pilot
2003	Skin	Brian	TV series (1 episode: "Pilot")
2003	Paper Boy, TheThe Paper Boy	Ben Harris	Short
2004	Perfect Score, TheThe Perfect Score	Kyle
2004	Cellular	Ryan
2005	Fierce People	Bryce Langley
2005	Fantastic Four	Johnny Storm / Human Torch
2005	London	Syd
2007	TMNT	Casey Jones (voice)
2007	Sunshine	Robert Mace
2007	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Johnny Storm / Human Torch
2007	Nanny Diaries, TheThe Nanny Diaries	Hayden "Harvard Hottie"
2007	Battle for Terra	Stewart Stanton (voice)
2008	Street Kings	Detective Paul Diskant
2008	Robot Chicken	Various voices	TV series (1 episode: "Monstourage")
2009	Push	Nick Gant
2009	Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, TheThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond	Jimmy Dobyne
2010	Losers, TheThe Losers	Jake Jensen
2010	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Lucas Lee
2011	Puncture	Michael David "Mike" Weiss
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	Steve Rogers / Captain America
2011	What's Your Number?	Colin Shea
2012	Avengers, TheThe Avengers	Steve Rogers / Captain America
2013	The Iceman	Robert "Mr. Softee" Pronge
2013	Snow Piercer	Will Hawkins	Post-production
2014	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Steve Rogers / Captain America	Pre-production

 
Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Fantastic Four	Johnny Storm / The Human Torch	Voice
2011	Captain America: Super Soldier	Steve Rogers / Captain America	Voice