Chris Evans is in his element as a newly minted girl dad — and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I guess it sounds a little cheesy, but not to other parents, how much you miss them,” Evans, 45, told The Dodo in an interview published Tuesday, August 18, revealing the most unexpected part of fatherhood to date. “You know, we’ll put her down for a nap and I’m, like, ‘Aw,’ I just want to see what she’s looking like on the baby monitor.”
He continued, “You miss her when you’re holding her, you know what I mean? It’s a strange feeling. You just want to be around her all the time.”
Evans and his wife, Alba Baptista, reportedly welcomed their first baby, a daughter named Alma Grace, in October 2025. Since Alma’s arrival, Evans also saw his beloved pet dog Dodger leap into “protective” mode.
“He’s been incredible. He’s so loving, he’s so protective. He’ll sleep outside her room when she’s napping,” the Marvel star gushed to The Dodo. “He has a great instinct for young things, whether it’s a person or a puppy. He’s very gentle.”
According to Evans, Dodger has long known how to behave around little ones.
“Back when [I] first brought him home over 10 years ago, my sister’s kids [were] much younger. Tug-of-war with me is a battle, tug-of-war with my niece, [Dodger] just knew how to turn the volume down,” he recalled. “He’s really sweet, and he’s done that with my daughter. It warms the heart.”
Chris Evans and his dog, Dodger. Chris Evans/Twitter
Evans and Baptista, 29, have long kept their family life private. The couple have been married since 2023 after two years of dating.
“It was really, really great. We kinda had two ceremonies,” Evans later said of the nuptials during an October 2023 appearance at New York Comic Con. “We had one on the East Coast [and] we did one in Portugal. They were wonderful and beautiful.”
Chris Evans and his wife, Alba Baptista, have a precious new reason to smile. The Marvel star and Borderline actress welcomed their first child together — and now fans are learning the sweet name the couple chose for their bundle of joy: a baby girl. “They’re enjoying their privacy and these special first few days […]
He added at the time, “It’s a lot of planning a wedding. For those of you who are married, it takes a lot out of you. Now that we’re through that, we’ve just kinda been enjoying life, gearing up for autumn, my favorite season. It’s, like, the best time of year right now. Now we’re just relaxing and enjoying life and reflecting.”
Baptista hails from Portugal, with Evans even proposing in her native language.
“She’s Portuguese, so I learned how to say, ‘Will you marry me?’ in Portuguese. I had practiced it all week,” Evans told The Knot in June 2025. “I had practiced it so much that while I’d be making breakfast and you almost just start saying it out loud. Like, ‘Oh God, that’s not just a song that’s stuck in my head! It’s gonna let the cat out of the bag.’”
