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Chris Evans (actor) Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans is an American
actor. Evans is best known for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic
Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer , and Steve Rogers / Captain America
in Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel's The Avengers . He will reprise his
role as Captain America in the upcoming films Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers:
Age of Ultron . Evans began his career on the television series Opposite Sex and later
moved to film, appearing in Not Another Teen Movie , Fierce People , Sunshine , Push , The
Losers , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , and What's Your Number? .
Early life Chris Evans was born in Boston 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. In 2013, it was announced that the sequel
to the The Avengers would be titled Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Evans will reprise his
role as Captain America but not before his directorial debut filming 1:30 Train, which
he will also produce and star. 1:30 Train is set to release sometime in 2014, while
Avengers: Age of Ultron is set to release May 1, 2015.
Personal life From 2004 to 2006, Evans dated actress Jessica
Biel. He also dated actress Minka Kelly in September 2012 after briefly dating her in
2007 but broke up again in October 2013. He is also a supporter of LGBT rights, and
practices Buddhism. Awards and nominations