Chris Evans (actor)

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Chris Evans
Born	Christopher Robert Evans June 13, 1981 (1981-06-13) (age 27) Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA

Christopher Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Fantastic Four (as Johnny Storm/Human Torch), Cellular and Not Another Teen Movie.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Christopher Robert Evans was born on June 13th, 1981 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa, a dancer, and Bob Evans, a dentist.^[1] Evans is of Italian and Irish descent and is a Catholic.^[2][3][4] He graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1999 and had originally planned to attend NYU after graduating high school.

[edit] Career

After completing his junior year in high school, Evans traveled to New York 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 TV series Opposite Sex before landing his first notable role as Jake Wyler in Not Another Teen Movie. The film contained a somewhat notorious spoof of the Varsity Blues movie, where (to attract the attention of a girl) Evans entered the room wearing nothing more than whipped cream and cherries covering his nipples and crotch, and a banana sticking out of his buttocks.

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 few independent films where audiences got to see a different side to Evans. In London, 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. Evans has worked opposite some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Kim Basinger, Diane Lane, Scarlett Johansson, William H. Macy and Donald Sutherland. He was named 'Male Superstar of Tomorrow' at the 2005 Young Hollywood Awards. Recently, Evans reprised the role of Johnny Storm/The Human Torch in the sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and as the engineer Mace in Danny Boyle's sci-fi film Sunshine.

In 2008, Evans played Diskant in Street Kings, co-starring Keanu Reeves, and will appear as Jimmy in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, co-starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Ellen Burstyn and David Strathairn. The latter is based on a play created by Tennessee Williams. Evans is also working on a supernatural thriller, Push, along with Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	The Newcomers	Judd
	Opposite Sex (TV series)	Cary Baston
	The Fugitive (2000 TV series)	Zack	Episode: Guilt
2001	Boston Public	Neil Mavromates	Episode: Chapter Nine
	Not Another Teen Movie	Jake Wyler
2002	Eastwick (TV)	Adam
2003	The Paper Boy	Ben
	Skin (TV)	Brian	Episode: Pilot
2004	The Perfect Score	Kyle
	Cellular	Ryan
2005	The Orphan King	Seth King
	Fierce People	Bryce
	Fantastic Four	Johnny Storm / Human Torch
	London	Syd
2007	TMNT	Casey	Voice
	Sunshine	Mace
	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Johnny Storm / Human Torch
	The Nanny Diaries	Harvard Hottie/Hayden
	Terra	Stewart Stanton	Voice
2008	Street Kings	Detective Paul "Disco" Diskant
	The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond	Jimmy	awaiting release
2009	Push	Nick Gant	post-production

[edit] Awards

Nominated

2006

MTV Movie Award: "Best On-Screen Team" (Fantastic Four)

2007

Teen Choice Award: "Choice Movie Actor: Action Adventure" (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

Teen Choice Award: "Choice Movie: Rumble" (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chris Evans at the Internet Movie Database
• Chris Evans video interview with stv.tv/movies, for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer