Chris Evans was born in Boston[2] and raised in the town of Sudbury.[3] His mother, Lisa (Capuano), is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater,[4][5] and his father, Bob, is a dentist.[6] He has two sisters, Carly,[6] a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a high school drama and English teacher,[4] Shanna,[6] and a younger[7] brother, Scott,[6] who was featured on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Their uncle, Mike Capuano, represents the same Massachusetts Congressional district formerly represented by Tip O'Neill.[8] His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry.[8][9][10]
Evans graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.[3] He and his siblings were raised Catholic.[9][10]