Luke George Evans (born 15 April 1979) is a Welsh actor and singer.
Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's
West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making
his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake.
Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films
as Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three
Musketeers (2011).In 2013, Evans starred as the main antagonist Owen
Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the
Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Hobbit. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the
character's 2014 film origin story, Dracula Untold. In 2017, Evans
starred as Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the
Beast, and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston,
creator of fictional character Wonder Woman, in the biographical drama
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. He had a lead role in the
period drama series The Alienist in 2018. He released his debut album
At Last on 22 November 2019.Evans was born on Easter Sunday, 15 April
1979, in Pontypool, and brought up in Aberbargoed, a small village in
the Rhymney Valley, Wales, the only child of Yvonne and David Evans.
He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, though he left the religion when
he was 16 and left school at the same time.
Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's
West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before making
his film breakthrough in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake.
Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films
as Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three
Musketeers (2011).In 2013, Evans starred as the main antagonist Owen
Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the
Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's
The Hobbit. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the
character's 2014 film origin story, Dracula Untold. In 2017, Evans
starred as Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the
Beast, and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston,
creator of fictional character Wonder Woman, in the biographical drama
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. He had a lead role in the
period drama series The Alienist in 2018. He released his debut album
At Last on 22 November 2019.Evans was born on Easter Sunday, 15 April
1979, in Pontypool, and brought up in Aberbargoed, a small village in
the Rhymney Valley, Wales, the only child of Yvonne and David Evans.
He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness, though he left the religion when
he was 16 and left school at the same time.
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