Chris Evans
Chris Evans has emerged in recent years as one of the busiest young actors in Hollywood. In addition to
TMNT, he has three films upcoming in 2007, beginning with the sci-fi thriller
Sunshine, for director
Danny Boyle, followed by
The Nanny Diaries, opposite
Scarlett Johansson. This summer, he stars in
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, in which he reprises the role of Johnny Storm, a.k.a. The Human Torch.
Raised in Massachusetts, Evans began acting in regional theatre before moving to New York, where he studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute. He made a few guest appearances on television series before landing his first feature film starring role in the comedy spoof Not Another Teen Movie. His next film was the crime comedy The Perfect Score, in which he starred with Scarlett Johansson and Erika Christensen. Switching gears, he starred with Kim Basinger, William H. Macy and Jessica Biel in the thriller Cellular, playing a young man who is drawn into a kidnapping plot.
In 2005, Evans starred in four feature films, including the summer action hit Fantastic Four, in which he joined Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd as a group of astronauts who gain individual super powers after they are exposed to cosmic radiation. Also that year, Evans starred in the independent features The Orphan King, opposite Alexis Bledel; Fierce People, with Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland; and, most recently, the romantic drama London, opposite Jessica Biel.
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