“Avengers: Endgame” star Chris Evans confirmed Saturday that he even does weddings in sequels: He wed the “Warrior Nun” actor in two ceremonies — and he's loving life as a newlywed now that the event planning is over. “I got married,” Evans confirmed to a crowd assembled for a panel at New York Comic Con.
In news that shouldn't actually surprise anyone, Marvel-famous actor Chris Evans announced that he married Alba Baptista in September, over a month after multiple outlets — citing anonymous sources — reported on the nuptials.
Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan Downey, Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky, Jeremy Renner, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt were all spotted in town, presumably for the East Coast wedding that Evans alluded to.
On 9 January 2015, Evans became a grandfather when Jade gave birth to her son. Evans married Carol McGiffin in 1991. Their 1993 break up was not amicable and the two divorced in 1998. McGiffin was scathing about Evans in newspaper articles as late as 2003.
The rumors are true: Chris Evans and Alba Baptista are married — twice over, actually. During a panel at New York Comic-Con, the “Captain America” actor, 42, revealed that he and Baptista, 26, had two ceremonies, one in America and one in Baptista's native Portugal.
The Avengers actor married his girlfriend Alba Baptista on Sept. 9, 2023, at a private estate in Cape Cod, Mass. While Evans has previously shared snaps of the two on his Instagram, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive and his wife have mainly kept their relationship private.
Evans is a follower of Buddhism. He is a fan of the New England Patriots, and narrated the documentary series America's Game: The Story of the 2014 New England Patriots and America's Game: 2016 Patriots.
Though they called it quits in 2006, the 7th Heaven alum had high hopes for their future together. "We always talk about [marriage]. We both want to be married, and we both want to have children," Biel told Cosmopolitan one year before her and Evans' split. She eventually tied the knot with Justin Timberlake in 2012.
But when it's Chris Evans marrying a woman who is 16 years his junior, the age gap doesn't matter. Make it make sense, come on!” While some people have expressed negative opinions about Chris Evans and Alba Baptista's age gap, others have defended the couple and expressed their happiness for them.
Chris and Alba dating rumors take off when fans notice that Alba is following Chris and several of his family members on Instagram. People speculate that they met in the summer, when Chris was filming The Gray Man and Alba was filming Warrior Nun's second season.
Chris's father is of half German and half Welsh/English/Scottish ancestry, while Chris's mother is of half Italian and half Irish descent. He has an older sister, Carly Evans, and two younger siblings, a brother named Scott Evans, who is also an actor, and a sister named Shana Evans.
He added that he had a type of skin cancer called melanoma. "It's as treatable as cancer can be to the extent that they call it 'stage zero'," Evans continued. He said the mark on his leg would be removed on 14 September. "I can't run for a month afterwards so I'm going to do nothing but run until then," he joked.
Chris and his wife, Natasha Shishmanian, share twins Walt and Boo, as well as sons Eli and Noah. Natasha gave birth to their first child together in 2009. After she survived a near-fatal ectopic pregnancy the following year, the couple used IVF to conceive their son Eli.
Biel isn't the only famous woman Evans has dated. Evans has had a handful of steady relationships and has also been romantically linked to quite a few Hollywood stars, including Emmy Rossum, Christina Ricci, and Lily James.
Although the actors were rumoured to have begun dating as early as 2021, they were first spotted in November 2022. In September 2023, the pair reportedly tied the knot in an at-home wedding. Evans confirmed his marriage to Baptista during a panel discussion at New York Comic Con on Saturday.
Scott Andrew Evans was born September 21, 1983, and raised in Sudbury, Massachusetts. His parents are Bob Evans, a dentist, and Lisa (née Capuano) Evans, a dancer and later artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater. He has two sisters, Carly and Shanna, and an older brother, actor Chris Evans.
