Chris Evans | |
---|---|
Evans at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
|
|
Born |
Christopher Robert Evans June 13, 1981 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Education | Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1999–present |
Relatives |
Scott Evans (brother) Mike Capuano (uncle) |
Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. Evans is known for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Human Torch in Fantastic Four and its 2007 sequel.
He began his career on the 2000 television series Opposite Sex, and has since appeared in a number of films, such as Not Another Teen Movie, Sunshine, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Snowpiercer and the upcoming Gifted. In 2014, Evans made his directorial debut with the drama film Before We Go, in which he also starred.
Evans was born in Boston and raised in the town of Sudbury. His mother, Lisa (née 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 mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry. He and his siblings were raised Catholic.