50 Fun Facts About Chris Evans

Before Captain America, Chris Evans played Johnny Storm in two Fantastic Four films under which superhero name?

Human Torch made Evans a Marvel star twice over: he played the fiery Johnny Storm in 2005 and 2007, then signed on as Steve Rogers in 2010.

Which future Avengers co-star talked a reluctant Chris Evans into accepting the role of Captain America?

Robert Downey Jr. encouraged Evans to say yes after he had turned the part down, and Evans has said he went to see a therapist once he accepted.

Which actress worked with Chris Evans on The Perfect Score and The Nanny Diaries years before they were both Avengers?

Scarlett Johansson made a 2004 heist comedy and a 2007 comedy drama with Evans, long before she played Black Widow beside his Captain America.

In which 2019 whodunit did Chris Evans play spoiled grandson Ransom Drysdale, whose off-white Aran sweater went viral?

Knives Out cast Evans as a spoiled playboy, and his sweater drew so much attention that the film's Twitter account briefly renamed itself after it.

In Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans's Captain America proves worthy by wielding which enchanted weapon against Thanos?

Mjolnir is Thor's hammer, and Rogers swings it against Thanos before carrying it back through time to the moment it was borrowed from.

Chris Evans voiced Buzz in Pixar's 2022 film Lightyear, a character voiced in the Toy Story films by which actor?

Tim Allen voices the toy, while Evans plays the space ranger the toy was modelled on; the producers wanted the spin-off to stand apart from Toy Story.

Which annual title did People magazine give Chris Evans in 2022, an honour that began with a Mel Gibson story?

Sexiest Man Alive started as a remark in a staff discussion about a planned Mel Gibson story, and a colleague suggested using it as a cover line.

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans's Steve Rogers stays in the past to share a life with whom?

Peggy Carter was promised a dance in his first Marvel film, and Endgame co-writer Stephen McFeely said he knew Rogers would finally get it.

In Snowpiercer, Chris Evans leads the poorest survivors of a frozen Earth in revolt aboard what kind of vehicle?

A train on a globe-encircling track never stops, and Evans's Curtis leads the tail-section passengers in a fight toward the front.

Chris Evans grew up in the Massachusetts town of Sudbury, but in which nearby city was he born?

Boston is where Evans was born, and local politics runs in the family: his uncle Mike Capuano was mayor of neighbouring Somerville through the 1990s.

Before becoming Captain America, Chris Evans's Steve Rogers is a young man from which New York City borough?

Brooklyn is where the films' Rogers was born, on July 4, 1918, which gives the star-spangled Avenger Independence Day as his birthday.

In the Marvel films, Howard Stark makes the shield carried by Chris Evans's Captain America from which rare metal?

Vibranium is described in the first film as tougher than steel at one-third of the weight; Rogers spots the plain disc among Stark's prototypes.

To which character does Chris Evans's elderly Steve Rogers hand his shield in the closing scene of Avengers: Endgame?

Sam Wilson inherits the shield, though co-writer Stephen McFeely at first planned to finish Rogers's story by killing him off.

Which boyhood friend of Chris Evans's Steve Rogers, presumed killed in the 1940s, returns as a brainwashed assassin?

Bucky Barnes survived because of Hydra's experiments on him, then spent decades being brainwashed and kept frozen between missions.

Chris Evans makes a brief cameo in Thor: The Dark World when which character mockingly takes Captain America's form?

Loki masquerades as Captain America for a few seconds, so Evans got to play Tom Hiddleston's trickster doing an impression of his own character.

In Gifted, Chris Evans plays a Florida boat mechanic raising a seven-year-old niece with a genius for which subject?

Mathematics ran in the family: the girl's late mother had been working on the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the unsolved Millennium Prize Problems.

In The Gray Man, Chris Evans plays sociopathic mercenary Lloyd Hansen, who hunts a CIA agent played by which actor?

Ryan Gosling's agent, Sierra Six, is the target, and the Russo brothers, who had directed Evans in four Marvel films, cast him here as the villain.

Which actress starred with Chris Evans in both The Gray Man and the Apple TV+ action comedy Ghosted?

Ana de Armas joined Ghosted late, replacing another actress who had a scheduling conflict, and it became her third film with Evans.

Which action star plays the North Pole's head of security opposite Chris Evans in the Christmas film Red One?

Dwayne Johnson's security chief teams up with Evans's hacker, a bounty hunter nicknamed the Wolf, to find a kidnapped Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

Chris Evans narrated two America's Game documentaries about title-winning seasons of which NFL team he supports?

New England Patriots fandom comes with the territory for a Massachusetts native, and Evans voiced the films on the 2014 and 2016 teams.

Which Portuguese actress, the lead of Netflix's Warrior Nun, did Chris Evans marry on Cape Cod in 2023?

Alba Baptista and Evans wed in a private ceremony at home in Massachusetts; Warrior Nun had been her English-language debut.

Which 2024 film fooled audiences by introducing Chris Evans as if he were Captain America, then revealing Johnny Storm?

Deadpool & Wolverine brought Evans back to a role he had last played in 2007, in a costume that mixed pieces of both of his Marvel suits.

In which 2001 comedy did Chris Evans star as popular football player Jake Wyler?

Not Another Teen Movie sent up the high school films of the 1980s and 1990s, and Variety's critic praised Evans for a performance better than the material.

In which Marvel film does Chris Evans's Captain America appear only in instructional videos shown to school students?

Spider-Man: Homecoming added him during reshoots, in fitness videos that the director modelled on the President's Fitness Challenge.

Chris Evans and which fellow Hollywood Chris visited Seattle Children's Hospital in 2015 to settle a charity bet?

Pratt and Evans made a bet that ended up raising donations for the hospital and for Christopher's Haven, a charity Evans supports.

What name did Chris Evans give the dog he adopted in 2015 while filming the family drama Gifted?

Dodger came from a local animal shelter, and Evans took him home during the shoot.

Which Succession star was a schoolmate of Chris Evans at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts?

Jeremy Strong acted with Evans in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and later asked his famous schoolmate for help finding an agent.

Before his film career, Chris Evans appeared as Tyler on the box of a 1999 edition of which Hasbro board game?

Mystery Date cast him as the beach suitor of the bunch, and the special edition's box shows him talking into its electronic phone.

Chris Evans's mother was artistic director of a youth theater, while his father Bob worked in which profession?

Dentist Bob Evans and his wife Lisa, of the Concord Youth Theater, raised four children in Sudbury, including actors Chris and Scott.

Which Hydra commander, played by Hugo Weaving, is the enemy of Chris Evans's Captain America in The First Avenger?

Red Skull spoke with an accent Weaving patterned on Werner Herzog and Klaus Maria Brandauer; he wore a latex mask, and the effects team erased his nose digitally.

In which 2004 thriller does Chris Evans play a young man who takes a random phone call from a kidnapped teacher?

Cellular casts Kim Basinger as the captive, who reaches him on a smashed landline, so he has to keep the call going while he searches for her.

Which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character did Chris Evans voice in the 2007 animated film TMNT?

Casey Jones is April O'Neil's boyfriend in the film, with Sarah Michelle Gellar voicing April, and he still goes out hunting criminals at night.

In which Danny Boyle space thriller does Chris Evans play Mace, engineer of the starship Icarus II?

Sunshine sends eight astronauts to detonate a colossal bomb meant to reignite the Sun, with Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh also in the crew.

In Street Kings, Chris Evans plays investigator Paul Diskant, who helps an LAPD detective played by which star?

Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, an alcoholic vice detective, and Evans's reluctant partner does not survive the gunfight their hunt leads to.

In the 2009 thriller Push, Chris Evans plays Nick Gant, a psychic in hiding in Hong Kong with which ability?

Telekinesis makes Nick a Mover in the film's jargon, though his untrained powers fail him when he tries to cheat at gambling.

Which skateboarding film star, one of Ramona Flowers's evil exes, did Chris Evans play in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?

Lucas Lee was a part Evans called a no-brainer because he was such a fan of director Edgar Wright, and he voiced the character again in a 2023 animated series.

In the romantic comedy What's Your Number?, Chris Evans plays the musician neighbour of a woman played by whom?

Anna Faris's Ally recruits him to dig up her ex-boyfriends, and in return he gets to hide at her place after his one-night stands.

Which Marvel film has Chris Evans called his favourite, saying it was where he began to understand his character?

The Winter Soldier was also his first film with directors Anthony and Joe Russo, whom he said he enjoyed working with.

In Captain America: Civil War, Chris Evans's character opposes which agreement putting the Avengers under UN control?

Sokovia Accords would set up a UN panel to oversee the team; Tony Stark backs the plan, while Rogers trusts his own judgment over that of politicians.

Which star of The Office was among the actors considered for Captain America before Chris Evans was cast?

John Krasinski was on a long list of contenders that also took in Channing Tatum, Zachary Levi, Dane Cook and Glen Powell.

Which South Korean director made his English-language debut with Snowpiercer, casting Chris Evans in the lead?

Bong Joon-ho at first pictured Evans as all muscle, then found him sensitive and introverted, and had to hide his physique under costume and make-up.

Chris Evans's directorial debut Before We Go follows two strangers who meet overnight at which New York landmark?

Grand Central Terminal is where Evans's character is busking when the two meet; he also directed and produced, and the film premiered at Toronto in 2014.

In which Apple TV+ miniseries does Chris Evans play a prosecutor whose 14-year-old son is accused of murder?

Defending Jacob adapts William Landay's 2012 novel, and Evans was an executive producer as well as its lead.

In which 2021 video-game comedy, where Captain America's shield turns up as a weapon, does Chris Evans cameo as himself?

Free Guy got its Evans cameo at the suggestion of Blake Lively, and he agreed to drop by the set for ten minutes.

In Materialists, Chris Evans plays a matchmaker's ex-boyfriend, the rival of a wealthy financier played by which actor?

Pedro Pascal plays Harry, while Evans's character is a theatre actor who waits tables for a caterer; Celine Song wrote and directed.

Chris Evans launched A Starting Point in 2020 as a website for short videos made by which group?

Elected officials from both parties answer in clips of under two minutes, and can set out a view without being challenged by an interviewer.

Chris Evans's father is of Irish descent, while his mother is half Irish and half which heritage?

Italian roots come through his mother's side, the Capuanos, the family of his politician uncle Mike.

Which actress plays the single mother hired by a failing drug company in Pain Hustlers, opposite Chris Evans?

Emily Blunt's Liza is a high school dropout living in her sister's garage when the job comes along, and it lands her inside a criminal conspiracy.

In The Perfect Score, Chris Evans plays one of six New Jersey students who plot to steal the answers to which exam?

The SAT answers sit in a regional office of the Educational Testing Service, and Evans's Kyle needs a high score to study architecture at Cornell.

Chris Evans made his Broadway debut in 2018 as police officer Bill in which Kenneth Lonergan play?

Lobby Hero earned Evans a Drama League Award nomination, and The New York Times called it a terrific Broadway debut.