Menu All. Sign In. List activity. Chris Evans. Actor Producer Director The Avengers Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre. Robert Evans III, a dentist. His uncle is former U. Representative Mike Capuano. He has an older sister, Carly Evans , and two younger siblings, a brother named Scott Evans , who is also an actor, and a sister named Shana Evans.
The family moved to suburban Sudbury when he was 11 years-old. 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. 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 television series.
Evans made one of his first appearances on The Fugitive CBS, , a remake of the s 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. Richard Kimble - incognito as a liquor store owner - refuses to sell him and his friends alcohol. After small roles in Cherry Falls and The Newcomers - two unknown low-budget features - Evans appeared in Boston Public Fox, as a murder suspect.
He then appeared in his first major feature, Not Another Teen Movie , a 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 and Eastwick - he appeared in another listless teen comedy, The Perfect Score , 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 , 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.
