List of Chris Evans performances
Chris Evans is an American actor who made his film debut in "Biodiversity: Wild About Life!", a 1997 educational film co-produced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, before making appearances in minor television roles in the early 2000s. Evans has described his filmography of the early to mid 2000s as being "really terrible". He appeared in the television comedy-drama "Opposite Sex" (2000), comedies "Not Another Teen Movie" (2001) and "The Perfect Score" (2004), and the action thriller "Cellular" (2004). In 2005, Evans had his breakthrough performance as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in  the superhero film "Fantastic Four", his highest-paid role at the time, and reprised the role for the film's 2007 sequel "". "Fantastic Four" would be the first of many roles in films adapted from comic books and graphic novels for Evans, including Casey Jones in "TMNT" (2007), Jake Jensen in "The Losers" (2010), Lucas Lee in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), and Curtis Everett in "Snowpiercer" (2013). His most prolific comic book movie role would be as Steve Rogers (Captain America) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series of films, with credited appearances and cameos as the character  in eleven films and one video game; notable appearances include the headlining films "" (2011), "" (2014), and "" (2016), and the ensemble films "The Avengers" (2012), "" (2015), "" (2018), and "" (2019). While comic book films formed the bulk of Evans's filmography from the late 2000s through the entirety of the 2010s, he concurrently acted in a range of non-comic book projects, including Danny Boyle's psychological thriller "Sunshine" (2007), Marc Webb's drama "Gifted" (2017), and a critically acclaimed performance in Rian Johnson's "Knives Out" (2019). He also starred in several romantic comedy films, including "The Nanny Diaries" (2007), "What 's Your Number?" (2011), and "Playing It Cool" (2015), the latter of which he also executive produced. Evans made his directorial debut in 2014 with the romantic drama "Before We Go", which he also produced and starred in. His Broadway debut was in the 2018 revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play "Lobby Hero", for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.