
In September 2000, he moved to Los Angeles and lived in Oakwood Apartments in Toluca Lake, a complex where he met fellow young actors. The special edition of the game included an electronic phone, which Evans is shown speaking into on the game box. In 1999, Evans was the model for "Tyler" in Hasbro's board game Mystery Date. See also: List of Chris Evans performances 1997–2004: Early rolesĮvans's first credited appearance was in a short educational film titled Biodiversity: Wild About Life! in 1997. Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1999. He and siblings also performed in front of relatives during Christmases, recalling that being onstage "felt like home." Before starting his senior year of high school, Evans spent the summer in New York City, and took classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He played Randolph MacAfee in the musical Bye Bye Birdie. He enjoyed musical theater as a child, and attended acting camp. Their uncle, Mike Capuano, served as mayor of Somerville from 1990 to 1999, and as a U.S. He and his siblings were raised Catholic. Įvans has two sisters, Carly and Shanna, and a brother, actor Scott Evans. His father is of Irish descent, while his mother is of half Irish and half Italian descent.

His mother, Lisa (née Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater, and his father, Bob, is a dentist. Evans made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play Lobby Hero, which earned him a Drama League Award nomination.Ĭhristopher Robert Evans was born on June 13, 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in the nearby town of Sudbury. He also voiced Buzz Lightyear in the Pixar's Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear (2022).Įvans made his directorial debut in 2014 with the romantic drama Before We Go, which he also produced and starred in. Aside from comic book roles, Evans has starred in the drama Gifted (2017), the mystery film Knives Out (2019), the television miniseries Defending Jacob (2020), and the action film The Gray Man (2022). His work in the franchise established him as one of the world's highest-paid actors. the World (2010), and Snowpiercer (2013).Įvans gained wider recognition for portraying Captain America in various Marvel Cinematic Universe films, from Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). Evans made further appearances in film adaptations of comic books and graphic novels: TMNT (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs. Following appearances in several teen films, including 2001's Not Another Teen Movie, he gained attention for his portrayal of Marvel Comics character the Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).

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He began his career with roles in television series such as Opposite Sex in 2000. People sometimes forget that Joe Simon was an artist, as well.Christopher Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor.

Simon quickly paired up with Kirby and they began developing new ideas. Logically, then, it was a good time for people to pair up as content deliverers, and that is just what artist/editor/writer Joe Simon did with Jack Kirby, one of the most promising new artist talents in the industry. The top creators in the industry were suddenly very hot commodities, as everyone wanted to get a piece of the next great idea that, say, Will Eisner came up with (actually, by early 1941, Will Eisner was in SUCH high demand that he was able to leave the normal comic book industry entirely to launch a new character, the Spirit, as a newspaper supplement). The comic book superhero boom was well under way, and comic book publishers were fighting each other to get to the next great superhero idea. Joe Simon originally named Captain America something else entirely.
