Happy Birthday Chris Evans!

Happy Birthday Chris Evans!  One of Chris Evans’ early film roles was the lead in the comedy, Not Another Teen Movie (2001).  His first genre part was as 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 as the Human Torch in Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).  Evans voiced Stewart Stanton in the sci fi animated film, Battle for Terra (2007).  In 2009, Evans had superpowers as a Mover, Nick Grant, in Push.  He was in another comic book adaptation, The Losers (2010), based on the Andy Diggle and Jock Vertigo comic.  One of his greatest comic book characters was as stuntman superstar Lucas Lee 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) and then later in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016).  A brilliant 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 that year as Captain America.  Of course, we have Cap returning in Avengers: Infinity War and finally(?) in Avengers: Endgame.  He was in the Broadway play, Lobby Hero, with Michael Cera (who played Scott Pilgrim).  Chris Evans is currently in the Apple+ drama Defending Jacob based on the William Linday novel.  Happy Birthday Chris Evans!

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