Happy Birthday Chris Evans! He may be known as Captain America, at least the Steve Rogers version, but started in the teen drama, Opposite Sex (2000). Then, he moved to a comedy movie, Not Another Teen Movie (2001). This led to his first superhero role, Johnny Storm, the Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005). Evans provided the voice of Casey in the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007). He returned to the role in the sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). Evans voiced Stewart Stanton in the sci fi animated film, Battle for Terra (2007). He was in the police drama, Street Kings (2008) directed by David Ayer. In 2009, Evans played an enhanced psychic, a Mover, against The Division in Push. He was in a comic book adaptation with The Losers (2010) based on the Andy Diggle and Jock Vertigo comic. One of Evans’ finest comic book roles was as Lucas Lee, stunt man/action hero/skateboarder, in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). His iconic role was as Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) directed by Joe Johnston and then The Avengers (2012).
Evans’ next genre project was Snowpiercer (2013) directed by Bong Joon-ho and based on the French graphic novel. He reprised the role of Captain America in one of the MCU’s best films, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). Evans directed his first movie with the romance Before We Go (2014). He took up the Shield again in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). A dramatic part for Chris Evans was as Frank Adler, the uncle of his genius niece, Mary, in Gifted (2017). He also cameo’d in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) as Captain America. The First Avenger was in the final battles against Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and then turned over the shield in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Ransom Drysdale was played by Evans in Knives Out (2019). In 2018, Evans debuted on Broadway with the drama Lobby Hero with Michael Cera (who played Scott Pilgrim) He won the broadway.com Audience Awards for the part. Evans has starred in the drama miniseries Defending Jacob on Apple TV+ based on the William Linday novel. He has upcoming The Gray Man based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney. Evans will voice the space hero based on Toy Story with the animated Lightyear. Happy Birthday Chris Evans!
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