Chris Evans - not to be confused with the British DJ and wild man of the same name - began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theater. But it was his rapid rise to stardom that was unusual. Bitten by the acting bug in the first grade because his older sister, Carly, started performing, Evans followed suit and began appearing in school plays. From there, it was a quick jump to theater camp and later an internship for a casting office - a position he held one summer while living in a hole-in-the-wall in Brooklyn, New York. Once Evans made friends with a few agents on the job, it was a straight shot to television and blockbuster features.Originally from Framingham, Massachusetts, the Evans family moved to suburban Sudbury when he was 11 years-old. While at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, his obvious talent led others to lavish praise and encouragement on him, particularly his drama teacher, who cited his performance as "Leontes" in "The Winter's Tale" as exemplary of his skill. After more school plays and regional theater, he moved to New York and attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. On the advice of friends, he landed an internship at a casting office and befriended a couple of the agents he regularly communicated with - one of whom later took him on as a client. The screen - not the stage - then became his focus; Evans soon began auditioning for feature films and series television.Evans made one of his first appearances on "The Fugitive" (2000) (CBS, 2000-2001), a remake of the 1960s series and feature film starring Harrison Ford. In the episode "Guilt", Evans played the son of a small-town sheriff who tries to exact revenge after Dr. Kimble - incognito as a liquor store owner - refuses to sell him and his friends alcohol. After small roles in Cherry Falls (2000) and The Newcomers (2000) - two unknown low-budget features - Evans appeared in "Boston Public" (2000) (Fox, 2000-2004) as a murder suspect. He then appeared in his first major feature, Not Another Teen Movie (2001), a tiresome spoof on teen comedies wherein he played a jock who makes a bet that he can turn an unpopular and unkempt girl (Chyler Leigh) into prom queen.After filming a couple of television pilots he was confident would be successful - Just Married (2003) and Eastwick (2002) (TV) - he appeared in another listless teen comedy, The Perfect Score (2004), playing an average, ho-hum student who takes part in a plot to steal the SAT test. Hijinks naturally ensue. Then, Evans broke through to the Big Time, grabbing the lead in the kidnapping thriller, Cellular (2004), a suspenseful B movie with a cheesy gimmick - a random wrong number on his cell phone forces him into a high-stakes race to save an unknown woman's life. Despite an unassuming performance from Evans and Kim Basinger as the damsel in distress, Cellular (2004) failed to break any box office records or please a wide majority of critics. Evans then prepared himself for super stardom when he signed on to play "Johnny Storm" (a.k.a. The Human Torch)in Fantastic Four (2005), 20th Century Fox's long-awaited adaptation of the Marvel comic. Although the film was wildly uneven and disappointing, Evans nearly stole the show with his energetic, unfettered performance.
Christopher Robert Evans was born on the 13th of June, 1981 in Sudbury, Massachusetts to a father who works as a dentist and a mother who is a dancer. Chris Evans, as he is known to the showbiz industry also has three other siblings, an older sister named Carly, and two younger siblings, a brother named Scott and a sister named Shana. Chris also comes from an Irish-Italian descent.The strong Catholic believer attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and it was there that he decided to be a professional actor. After that, Chris decided to tell his parents about it and he ended up interning at a casting office in New York City. While interning, Chris attended acting classes to improve his acting skills. With help from one of the casting agent he had met earlier, he got the opportunity to start auditioning for a couple of roles after he had graduated from high school.After auditioning, he finally got a role in the TV series, "Opposite Sex" (2000). But his real taste of fame did not start there. Chris was soon discovered and it was his role as "Jake Wyler" in Not Another Teen Movie (2001) that brought the camera's lens to focus more on him. Not too long later, Chris co-starred together with Scarlett Johansson and Bryan Greenberg in The Perfect Score (2004), a movie which basically tells about how a group of students find a way to get perfect scores for their SAT's. It didn't take too long, either, for Chris to get another movie role in Cellular (2004) co-starring Kim Basinger and William H. Macy, a story about a woman who gets kidnapped but is saved after getting help from a young man who answers a "wrong-number" call.The year 2005 was the year for Chris Evans as it was then that he seriously got a shot at stardom. Chris played the role of "Johnny Storm" in Fantastic Four (2005), a remake of the Marvel comic book which tells the life of four superheroes. In that year, itself, Chris was noticed by critics and he even made it into magazine and Internet countdowns, scoring himself a third position of the hot body countdown from Gay.com and #18 on E! Television's 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies.In the love line, Chris had spent five years with actress Jessica Biel. Both of them started being together from the year 2001-2006. It was the month of June when the duo decided to go separate ways. Chris is said to be a romantic as he once surprised Jessica on one of her birthdays with roses and lighted candles in her room. Currently, Chris is romantically linked to Brazil's and Victoria Secret's hottest supermodel, 'Gisele Bundchen' and Jessica, on the other side, is said to be in a relationship with singer-turned-actor Justin Timberlake.Eventhough Chris has been successful most of his life, there were also some downs for him. Chris auditioned for a role in Elizabethtown (2005) opposite Kirsten Dunst but unfortunately, he lost the role to Orlando Bloom. Chris Evans is also popularly mistaken for the British DJ, Chris Evans. Other than that, we can't seem to find anymore downfalls from Chris so far.Chris is currently in Canada, shooting a few of the last scenes for the next installment of the Fantastic Four franchise together with his co-stars, Jessica Alba, Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis. Well, with all that success from this young and outstanding talented actor, critics will surely have much more to say about him.
