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Luke Evans

Luke Evans

Highest Rated: 100% Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023)

Lowest Rated: 23% The Raven (2012)

Birthday: Apr 15, 1979

Birthplace: Pontypool, Wales, UK

Welsh actor Luke Evans hit the silver screen with numerous projects during the early 2010s, paving the way for his ascending stardom. After studying at the London Studio Centre, the ruggedly handsome Evans became increasingly renowned for his West End stage roles and eventually made the leap to feature films. Born in Wales and raised in the largely rural area of Aberbargoed, Evans set his sights on city living as a youth, eventually moving to Cardiff as a teen to pursue music and drama. Later relocating to London for further stage training, he soon won roles in various musicals on the West End. Featured in British theater for nearly a decade, Evans finally shifted to movies around age 30, shooting his earliest film parts as Greek god Apollo in "Clash of the Titans" (2010) and Clive Richards in the Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" (2010) within weeks of each other. With barely a breather, he had a small turn in Ridley Scott's reworking of "Robin Hood" (2010) as the tough henchman of Matthew Macfadyen's Sheriff of Nottingham, and played up his country roots as dashing farmer Andy Cobb in Stephen Frears' "Tamara Drewe" (2010), where he pined for Gemma Arterton's lovely title character. Evans continued to surge ahead in his career, playing the ambitious Aramis in Paul W.S. Anderson's action-heavy "The Three Musketeers" (2011) and landing his second turn as a mythological figure by portraying Zeus in Tarsem Singh's stylized adventure movie "Immortals" (2011). Slowing down only slightly, he appeared in the important role of determined detective Emmett Fields in the dark period thriller "The Raven" (2012), inheriting the part from Jeremy Renner. After a foray into even grislier fare with the lead in the low-budget horror film "No One Lives" (2012), Evans prepared for more Hollywood work. Evans had a banner year in 2013, first turning up as the villainous Owen Shaw in the chase-filled action flick "Fast & Furious 6" (2013) and then entering the Middle-earth pantheon as the steely archer Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013) and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (2014). After starring in the title role of gothic horror "Dracula Untold" (2014), Evans appeared in the cinematic adaptation of J.G. Ballard's dystopian novel "High-Rise" (2015) and co-starred in the thriller "Message From the King" (2016). After co-starring in the high-profile thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016), Evans starred opposite Emma Watson as Gaston in a live-action "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) and returned as Owen Shaw in "The Fate of the Furious" (2017).

Highest rated movies

87% 77% Professor Marston & the Wonder Women 86% 79% Our Son 76% 70% Good Grief
74% 85% The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
73% 86% Angel of Mine 71% 80% Beauty and the Beast 71% 84% Fast & Furious 6 67% 22% 10x10

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Weekend in Taipei Unknown (Character) - 2024
62% 72% 5lbs of Pressure Adam (Character) - 2024
76% 70% Good Grief Oliver (Character) - 2023
86% 79% Our Son Nicky (Character) - 2023
100% 89% Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas Self - 2023
38% 66% Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge (Voice) - 2022
28% 27% Pinocchio The Coachman (Character) - 2022
66% 60% Crisis Bill Simmons (Character) $409.4K 2021
50% 42% StarDog and TurboCat Felix (Voice) - 2019
42% 92% Midway Wade McClusky (Character) $56.8M 2019
73% 86% Angel of Mine Mike (Character) - 2019
34% 81% Anna Alex Tchenkov (Character) $7.7M 2019
44% 46% Murder Mystery Charles Cavendish (Character) - 2019
55% 64% Ma Ben (Character) $45.3M 2019
37% 16% State Like Sleep Emile (Character) $2.8K 2018
67% 22% 10x10 Lewis (Character) - 2018
87% 77% Professor Marston & the Wonder Women William Moulton Marston (Character) $1.6M 2017
71% 80% Beauty and the Beast Gaston (Character) $504.0M 2017
45% 50% Message From the King Wentworth (Character) - 2016
44% 49% The Girl on the Train Scott (Character) $75.2M 2016
60% 38% High-Rise Richard Wilder (Character) $343.1K 2015
25% 58% Dracula Untold Vlad Tepes (Character) $55.9M 2014
59% 74% The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Bard (Character) $255.1M 2014
74% 85% The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bard the Bowman (Character) $258.4M 2013
71% 84% Fast & Furious 6 Owen Shaw (Character) $238.7M 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Robber's Tale: A Copper's Tale Bruce Reynolds (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Robber's Tale Bruce Reynolds (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 14% Ashes Unknown (Character) - 2012
46% 42% No One Lives Driver (Character) $72.1K 2012
23% 46% The Raven Detective Emmett Fields (Character) $16.0M 2012
60% 38% Flutter Adrian (Character) - 2011
49% 49% Immortals Zeus (Character) $83.5M 2011
No Score Yet 39% The Three Musketeers Aramis (Character) $20.4M 2011
48% 36% Blitz Stokes (Character) - 2011
65% 42% Tamara Drewe Andy Cobb (Character) $560.1K 2010
27% 40% Clash of the Titans Apollo (Character) $163.2M 2010

TV

Credit
55% 0% The Way Hogwood (Character) 2024
68% 54% Echo 3 Bambi (Character) 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gogglebox Self 2022
No Score Yet 19% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2017-2018 2022
27% 89% Crossing Swords King Merriman (Voice) 2020-2021
59% 60% Nine Perfect Strangers Lars (Character) 2021
No Score Yet 80% The Pembrokeshire Murders Steve Wilkins (Character) 2021
77% 80% The Alienist John Moore (Character) 2018 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2014 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry Guest 2016 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2018
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2017-2018
66% 94% The Grand Tour Unknown (Guest Star) 2018
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2017
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2017
No Score Yet 85% Robot Chicken Unknown (Guest Voice) 2016
No Score Yet 13% The View Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Train Robbery Bruce Reynolds (Character) 2013