Luke Evans

Luke Evans
Luke Evans at WonderCon 2011
Born	(1979-04-15) April 15, 1979 Pontypool, Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present

Luke Evans (born April 15, 1979) is a Welsh theater and film actor. He is known to theatergoers for his stage roles in productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon and Avenue Q, and to filmgoers for his roles in films such as Clash of the Titans and Tamara Drewe.

Early life

Luke Evans was born in Pontypool but lived his early years in Crumlin, a small village in Newbridge South Wales. The rest of his childhood and Teenage years were spent in the village of Aberbargoed,in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales, at the age of 17 when he moved to Cardiff where he studied under the supervision of Louise Ryan, an established singing Teacher. In 1997 he won a scholarship to The London Studio Centre in Kings Cross, London. He graduated in 2000.

Career

From 2000 - 2008 Evans starred in many of London's West End productions including La Cava, Taboo, Rent, Miss Saigon and Avenue Q as well as several fringe shows in London and at the Edinburgh Festival.

In 2008 he landed his most significant theatre role playing Vincent in the play Small Change written and directed by Peter Gill at the Donmar Warehouse, it was significant in that he gained recognition from film casting directors and US agencies from this play and he was also nominated for the Evening Standard award for best newcomer because of his performance in Small Change. Later that same year he did his second show at the Donmar Warehouse, Piaf, in which he played Yve Montand.

Evans got his first film audition aged 30. In 2009 he landed his first film playing the Greek god Apollo in the 2010 remake Clash of the Titans. That same year he appeared as Clive in the film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll directed by Matt Whitecross, as the Sheriff of Nottingham's thug in Robin Hood playing alongside Matthew MacFadyen (who he would later play alongside again in 2010 as a Musketeer), later that same year Evans went on to portray DI Craig Stokes in Blitz(2011), the film adaptation of Ken Bruen's novel of the same name in which he stars with Jason Statham and Paddy Considine and then finished 2009 playing the role of the handyman and good guy, Andy in director Stephen Frears’ film Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmond's comic strip in the Guardian Newspaper under the same name, which later became a graphic novel.In early 2010, he shot the independent movie, Flutter, directed by Giles Borg, and then landed a lead role in Tarsem Singhs Greek epic, Immortals, in which he played the King of the Gods, Zeus.

In that same year he went on to play the Musketeer Aramis in Paul W.S. Anderson's version of The Three Musketeers, at the end of 2010 he starred alongside John Cusack in James McTeigue's film The Raven, replacing Jeremy Renner. In the film, Evans plays Detective Emmett Fields, who investigates a series of murders alongside Cusack's Edgar Allan Poe, set in mid-19th century Baltimore. Shooting is taking place in Budapest and Serbia from November 2010. In 2011 He will be shooting No One Lives, a Psychological Horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamara, in New Orleans and will then start shooting Peter Jackson's upcoming two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit playing the role of Bard the Bowman.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	Taboo	Billy	short
2010	Cowards and Monsters	Paul	short
	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	Clive Richards
	Clash of the Titans	Apollo
	Robin Hood	Sheriff's Thug
	Tamara Drewe	Andy Cobb
	Flutter	Adrian	completed
2011	Blitz	DI Craig Stokes
	The Three Musketeers	Aramis	post-production
	Immortals	Zeus	post-production
2012	Ashes	crewcut	post-production
	The Raven	Inspector Emmett Fields	post-production
	No One Lives	Driver	filming
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Bard	filming
	The Amateur American		pre-production
2013	The Hobbit: There and Back Again	Bard	filming

Personal life

Luke lives a private life and rarely speaks about his personal life. He has made it clear in the past that press and private life are very seperate and should never be mixed. There has been interest in an interview he did In 2002, while starring in Taboo, Evans was interviewed by The Advocate and spoke about his personal life. In the article Evans stated, "I knew that even though my part was a straight character everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London I never tried to hide it. ... So I thought, Well, I'm going to have to be open. It's who I am. And if people don't like it, then I don't want their jobs." In the last 10 years Luke Evans stance has always been to remain quietly dignified and focus solely on his career, family and friends which are incredibly important to him.

External links

• Luke Evans at IMDb