The Chris Evans Alba Baptista relationship has moved at some pace: secret dates rumoured as far back as 2021, a wedding on each side of the Atlantic in 2023, and a daughter, Alma Grace Baptista Evans, born in Massachusetts in October 2025. Here is the full timeline of how it unfolded.
Who is Alba Baptista?
Baptista is a Portuguese actress, born in Lisbon, and is 28 years old. Evans is 44, according to People. Baptista is best known internationally for her role on Netflix‘s Warrior Nun, which served as her English-language debut. Before that, she appeared in several Portuguese films and TV series, among them A Impostora, Filha da Lei, A Criação, and Jogo Duplo. In 2022, she appeared in the dramatic comedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
Beyond acting, Baptista speaks five languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and English. In 2018, she worked at an orphanage in Cambodia with a focus on education. By all accounts, the charity work is not a side note: sources close to the couple have repeatedly cited it as a core part of who she is.
The Chris Evans Alba Baptista relationship timeline
Rumours of a romance first circulated in 2021. News of them officially dating broke in November 2022, when People revealed Evans had been seeing Baptista for at least a year. ‘It’s serious,’ a source told the outlet at the time. ‘They are in love, and Chris has never been happier. His family and friends all adore her.’
On Valentine’s Day 2023, Evans gave the public its first real look inside the relationship, posting videos and photos of them together across his Instagram Stories. Then, in September 2023, the couple quietly married at a private estate in Cape Cod over the weekend of 9 and 10 September. Several of Evans’s Marvel co-stars attended, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, John Krasinski, and Emily Blunt. A second ceremony followed in Portugal. Evans confirmed the two weddings himself at New York Comic Con in October 2023, telling the audience: ‘I got married. It was really, really great. We kinda had two ceremonies. We had one on the East Coast. We did one in Portugal. My wife’s Portuguese. Yeah, go Portugal!’
A source told People the day after the Cape Cod ceremony that Evans ‘has been ready to settle down for a while. He can’t wait to have a family. He was just waiting for the right girl.’ Of Baptista, the source added: ‘She is beautiful, smart and just a good person… It’s rubbed off on him.’
Their first public appearance as a married couple came at Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost’s Christmas party in December 2023. A date night in Los Angeles in January 2024 with friends including Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse followed, and their red carpet debut came at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills.
In GQ‘s September 2023 interview, Evans touched on how the relationship had already changed his approach to work. He had spent much of 2022 working across three films back to back. ‘My girlfriend that I’ve had for a while, when we began dating, I was like: “Yeah, I do one movie a year.” And then, after like a few months of dating, boom, guess what? We’re living in Atlanta for a year,’ he said, adding: ‘Even when that year was happening, I was like, man, never again.’
The proposal itself got a rare airing in June 2025, when Evans attended the premiere of Materialists in New York and spoke to The Knot. He had learned to propose in Portuguese. ‘I proposed to my now-wife in Portuguese,’ he said. ‘So I learned how to say, “Will you marry me?” in Portuguese. And I had practiced all week.’ He admitted he was ‘really nervous’ when the moment came and thought he may have ‘screwed it up’, though he noted: ‘But I still know it!’
People confirmed that the couple’s daughter, Alma Grace Baptista Evans, was born on 24 October 2025 in Massachusetts. Evans has said little publicly about fatherhood, but at Fan Expo Boston 2026 he offered this: ‘I have a daughter now. You need a really good reason to want to go to work now. [My] priorities have shifted a bit.’
Baptista, for her part, spoke about Evans at the premiere of her film Mother Mary in April 2026. ‘He’s absolutely the best support guide, I mean he has the best advice,’ she told Entertainment Tonight. She confirmed he had not yet seen the film but was ‘very excited’ about it. Whether the couple’s next public chapter involves a third dog (Evans told People in August 2024 they were ‘debating’ adding to their household alongside their existing pup, Dodger) or another film premiere together, they have made clear that life is largely kept between them.
