Chris Evans

My Hero

Evans is a former vegetarian.^{[citation needed]} He met his former girlfriend Jessica Biel in 2001 through friends. He appeared with her in the 2004 film Cellular and again in the 2005 film London. They broke up in June 2006.^[17] Chris' brother, actor Scott Evans, is openly gay, and Chris expressed his support for his brother and the gay community in a 2009 interview with The Advocate.^[11]

Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Not Another Teen Movie and as the Human Torch in the films Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.^[1] He will be starring in the title role in the upcoming comic book movie, Captain America: The First Avenger.^[2]

Evans was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (née Capuano), a dancer, and Bob Evans, a dentist.^[3][4] He is the nephew of U.S. Congressman Mike Capuano, who is his mother's brother.^[5][6] He has two sisters, Carly and Shanna, and a younger brother, Scott, who was featured on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live.^[3] Evans is of Italian (from his maternal grandfather) and Irish descent, and was raised Catholic.^[7][8] He graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1999 and had originally planned to attend New York University after graduating from high school.

After completing his junior year in high school, Evans traveled to Brooklyn where he interned at a casting agency and took a summer acting program. That same summer he met an agent that helped him get his start in acting after completing high school. Evans had small parts on television series such as Boston Public and The Fugitive and a role in the television series Opposite Sex before landing his first notable role as Jake Wyler in Not Another Teen Movie.

After filming wrapped on Not Another Teen Movie, Evans landed several more lead roles in The Perfect Score and Cellular. He also starred in a couple of independent films in Chicago with Executive Producer David Johnson where audiences got to see a different side to Evans. In Dirk Wittenborn's Fierce People he plays Bryce, a character whose sinister mental make up slowly becomes evident as the film unfolds. InLondon, Evans played a strung out drug user with relationship problems. He was then chosen to play the Human Torch in the 2005 comic book adaptation Fantastic Four. He was named 'Male Superstar of Tomorrow' at the 2005 Young Hollywood Awards. Evans reprised the role of Johnny Storm/The Human Torch in the sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in 2007. That year he also starred as an engineer turned astronaut called Mace in Danny Boyle's sci-fi film Sunshine, which brought him to the attention of directors as a serious acting talent.

In 2008, Evans appeared in Street Kings, co-starring Keanu Reeves, and The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, co-starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Ellen Burstyn. The latter is based on a play created by Tennessee Williams. Evans also appeared in the 2009 sci-fi thriller Push along with Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle.^[9] Evans performed his own fight scenes, which took weeks to film, and was bruised during filming.^[10] Evans was featured in an article in The Advocate for his role in Push.^[11]

In 2009, Evans was ranked 474th in Forbes' "Star Currency" rankings based on the global box-office performance of his past films.^[12]

In 2010, he filmed Puncture in Houston, Texas. Directed by Mark and Adam Kassen, it is described as a David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer Mark Weiss (played by Evans) who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons. Also in 2010, Evans appeared in Sylvain White's The Losers, an adaptation of Vertigo and DC Comics' comic book series of the same name.^[13] Evans also appeared in another comic book adaption, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, where he portrayed Lucas Lee, one of Ramona Flowers' seven exes, whom Scott Pilgrim must defeat in order to win her affections.^[14] Evans is set to play the iconic Marvel comic book character Captain America in the upcoming films Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers and at least two sequels to Captain America.^[15] Before that he is filming What's Your Number? a comic romance staring Anna Faris filmed in his native Boston.^[16]

My gawd! only in my dreams!