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Chris Evans met his wife Alba Baptista in 2021.
The couple tied the knot in 2023 and welcomed their first child in 2025.
Baptista is a Portuguese actress best known for her starring role in Netflix’s Warrior Nun.
Chris Evans was “laser-focused” on finding a partner before he met his future wife, Alba Baptista, in 2021. When the duo crossed paths that summer in Europe, all bets were off. “It was kind of love at first sight,” a source later told People of the couple’s meet-cute. “They got serious very quickly. He kept saying he knew she was the one.”
The duo quickly became an item and later tied the knot at a private estate in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on September 9, 2023. Evans was 42 years old at the time; Baptista was 26. Director Jimmy Warden, who worked with Baptista on her 2025 movie Borderline, later called them a “sweet couple.”
“Sometimes you run into people, [and] you’re like, ‘Oh, this wasn’t matchmaking.’ You know what I mean? No one was pulling the string,” he told People. “It was just like, ‘Oh, these people are exactly right for each other.'”
Ahead, here’s everything you should know about Chris Evans’s wife Alba Baptista, who gave birth to the couple’s first child in October 2025.
She’s from Portugal.
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Alba Baptista at the premiere of ‘Patrick’ during San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2019.
Baptista was born and raised in Portugal by a Portuguese mother and a Brazilian father. Thanks to a multilingual childhood, the actress speaks several languages in addition to her native Portuguese.
“My mom, she grew up in Germany, and she put all of her three children in the German school in Lisbon,” Baptista told Vogue Portugal. “The English came in school, as did the French, and Spanish came from life, really.”
She’s also an actor.
Baptista began her career with the Portuguese series Jardins Proibidos, but it wasn’t until her English-language debut on Netflix’s Warrior Nun that she garnered international attention. The fantasy-action show ran from 2020—2022 and put Bapista on the map. Following the series finale, the actress starred in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris opposite Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
“They both gave me lessons that I’ll carry with me throughout my whole career,” Baptista said of the two women in an interview with W Magazine. “As a young actor, it’s very easy to silence your voice and do what you’re told. Isabelle was just the most confident actress that I’ve witnessed on set, so observing her taught me how to be confident in my choices and instincts.”
After Mrs. Harris, Baptista was off to the races. Her next starring role came in the 2023 horror flick Amelia’s Children, followed by the 2025 thriller-slash-comedy Borderline.
It was “love at first sight.”
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Alba Baptista at a Miu Miu event during Venice International Film Festival in 2022.
Baptista and Evans’s connection was apparently instantaneous when the duo met in Europe back in 2021. Indeed, a People source called it “kind of love at first sight.”
Evans, for his part, had long wanted to find “the one.” In an interview with Men’s Journal in 2019, he told the publication that he was eager to start a family. “I like pretty pedestrian, domestic things,” he said. “I want a wife, I want kids. I like ceremony. I want to carve pumpkins and decorate Christmas trees and shit like that.”
The couple wed in September 2023.
Evans’s dreams of marital bliss came true on September 9, 2023 when he and Baptista tied the knot in a private ceremony in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Honey Don’t! actor later revealed that he proposed to his now-wife in Portuguese. Evans was (understandably) “really nervous” when it “came time” to get down on one knee.
“I actually think I screwed it up,” he joked in an interview with The Knot. “I had practiced it so much that, while her and I, I’d be making breakfast and you almost just start saying it out loud and you’re like, ‘Oh God,'” he added. “That’s not just a song that’s stuck in my head, it’s gonna let the cat out of the bag.”
Following their nuptials in Massachusetts, the couple flew to Portugal for a second ceremony in Baptista’s home country.
They made their red carpet debut in March 2024.
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Alba Baptista and Chris Evans at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
After nearly three years of coupledom, Evans and Baptista finally made their red carpet debut in 2024 thanks to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. It was a rare joint appearance for the duo, who typically avoid the spotlight. Evans donned a red Dolce & Gabbana suit for the special occasion while Baptista wore a black and white Roland Mouret dress paired with Cartier jewelry.
They welcomed their daughter Alma in October 2025.
Evans and Baptista quietly welcomed their first child together on October 24, 2025. (They never announced the pregnancy.) A source later confirmed with People that the baby’s name is Alma Grace Baptista Evans. “They’re enjoying their privacy and these special first few days as a family with their baby,” the insider shared.
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