In 2017, he had the villainous role of Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and co-starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens. In 2016, Evans appeared in the thriller film The Girl on the Train, co-starring Emily Blunt. The same year, he was named one of GQ 's 50 best dressed British men. In January 2015, Evans officially exited The Crow to pursue other projects. In June 2014, he joined the cast of the film High-Rise with Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons. Evans was cast as Eric Draven in the reboot of The Crow. In 2013, Evans played the antagonist Owen Shaw in Furious 6, and in 2014, he played Dracula in the film Dracula Untold. Įvans at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Tolkien's The Hobbit, playing the role of Bard the Bowman. In 2011, he shot No One Lives, a psychological horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, in New Orleans, and began filming a role in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. Shooting took place in Budapest and Serbia in November 2010.
In the film, released in 2012 and set in mid-19th century Baltimore, Evans played Detective Emmett Fields, who investigates a series of murders inspired by the poetry and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. And at the end of 2010, he took a role opposite John Cusack in James McTeigue's film The Raven, replacing Jeremy Renner. He was cast in a lead role in Tarsem Singh's Greek epic, Immortals (2011), in which he played the King of the Gods, Zeus. Anderson's version of The Three Musketeers (filmed in 2010 and released in 2011). In early 2010, he shot the independent movie, Flutter, directed by Giles Borg.Įvans played the Musketeer Aramis in Paul W. 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 starred with Jason Statham and Paddy Considine. Also in 2010, 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, alongside Matthew Macfadyen (whom he would later play alongside again in The Three Musketeers), and played handyman and good guy Andy, in director Stephen Frears' film Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmond's comic strip. In 2009, he landed his first film, playing the Greek god Apollo in the 2010 remake Clash of the Titans. Later that same year he did his second show at the Donmar Warehouse, Piaf, in which he played Yves Montand.Įvans got his first film audition at age 30.
For his performance, he gained recognition from film casting directors and US agencies and was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer. 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.
In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.įrom 2000 to 2008, Evans starred in many 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 2020, he starred in a three-part miniseries The Pembrokeshire Murders. He released his debut album, At Last, on 22 November 2019. He had a lead role in the period drama series The Alienist in 2018. 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. Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character's 2014 film origin story, Dracula Untold. In 2013, Evans starred as the antagonist Owen Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. 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). He 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.
Luke George Evans (born 15 April 1979) is a Welsh actor and singer.