Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Not Another Teen Movie, Cellular, Street Kings, the voice of Casey Jones in TMNT, and as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four films.

Evans was born on June 13, 1981 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa, a dancer, and Bob Evans, a dentist. He has two sisters, Carly DuBray and Shanna who was adopted as a baby, and a younger brother, Scott, who is working on Soap Operas and also in Confessions of a Shopaholic. Evans is of Italian and Irish descent and is Catholic. He graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1999 and had originally planned to attend NYU after graduating high school.

After completing his junior year in high school, Evans traveled to Brooklyn where he interned at a casting agency and took a summer acting program. That same summer he met an agent that helped him get his start in acting after completing high school. Evans had small parts on television series such as Boston Public and The Fugitive and a role in the TV series Opposite Sex before landing his first notable role as Jake Wyler in Not Another Teen Movie.