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Who is Alba Baptista? The Portuguese actress dating Chris Evans, ‘People’ magazine’s sexiest man alive

People’s 2022 Sexiest Man Alive, Chris Evans is no longer an eligible bachelor. So, who is the young actress Alba Baptista that has captured his heart?

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Alba Baptista, the Portuguese actress dating Chris Evans

People has named Chris Evans the Sexiest Man Alive for 2022, but the heartthrob it appears is taken. The same source reports that he has been dating Portuguese actress Alba Baptista, best-known from her Netflix series ‘Warrior Nun’, for over a year.

The 41-year-old actor told the entertainment magazine in his cover story interview for his crowning that marriage and fatherhood is “absolutely something I want.” And it according to an informant, he and the 25-year-old “are in love” and that the Boston-native “has never been happier.”

Who is Alba Baptista?

Born in 1997, to a Portuguese mother and a Brazilian father, Baptista hails from Lisbon. She is a polyglot speaking five languages. In addition to her native Portuguese, she also can converse in English, French, German and Spanish.

This should come as no surprise given that her mother is a translator. That is how she met Alba’s father, an engineer from Rio de Janeiro, when she was working in Brazil.

What movies has Alba Baptista been in?

Baptista has been acting since she was 14, and got her first critical acclaim with her performance in the 2014 film ‘Miami’. She played the lead role in the short for which she earned the Best Actress Award at the Festival Ibérico de Ciné. Since then she has also picked up a few more including the European Shooting Star award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Evans’ love interest has played roles in a number of films and Portuguese TV series before her English-language debut came with ‘Warrior Nun’ in 2020. That year she was named one of IMDb’s Top 10 Breakout Stars. She starred in the 2020 feature film ‘Fatima’ opposite Harvey Keitel and most recently ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ (2022) alongside Jason Isaacs and Lesley Manville among others.

How did Chris Evans and Alba Baptista meet?

There are no clear details of how the two first met nor exactly when they began dating. Online sleuths that follow every step of the face of Marvel’s ‘Capitan America’ noticed that he began following the Portuguese actress in the fall of 2020. She followed suit in the summer of 2021 at a time when both were filming projects in Europe.

According to People, it’s been confirmed that they have been dating for over a year and that “his family and friends all adore her.”