Chris Evans is a dad!

The "Avengers" star, 44, has welcomed his first child with wife Alba Baptista, according to reports from TMZ and People.

USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Evans and Baptista for comment.

Evans has been married to Baptista, a 28-year-old actress best known for starring in the Netflix show "Warrior Nun," since 2023.

During an appearance at New York Comic Con that year, the Captain America actor confirmed he was a married man, sharing that the wedding was "really, really great." He noted they had two ceremonies: one in Portugal, where Baptista is from, and another on the East Coast. "They were wonderful and beautiful," Evans said at the time.

The pair have kept their relationship largely private, and it was not publicly known that they were expecting a child together. Evans, though, has previously spoken about his desire to start a family.

In an interview with People magazine in 2022 after being named the magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for that year, he said that getting married and having children is "absolutely something I want."

"Wife, kids, building a family," he told the magazine. "When you read about most of the best artists, whether it's actors, painters, writers, most of them (admit) it wasn't the work they made (that they are most proud of), it was about the relationships, the families they created, the love they found, the love they shared," Evans said at the time.

"So it's also something through my long 41 years that also rings true," he added. "Those things are the most important. I love the idea of tradition and ceremony, I had a lot of that in my life so the idea of creating that, I can't think of anything better."

Before confirming he was in a relationship with Baptista, Evans said in a 2022 interview with Shondaland that he was "laser-focused on finding a partner" to "spend (my) life with." And in 2024, he told Access Hollywood that the "title of dad is an exciting one."

Evans, who retired as Captain America in 2019's "Avengers: Endgame," is coming off a role opposite Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in the romantic comedy "Materialists." While promoting the film and discussing its romantic themes, Evans told The Knot that he proposed to Baptista by learning how to say "will you marry me" in Portuguese.

"I had practiced all week," he recalled. "I practiced it so much that I'd be making breakfast and you almost start saying it out loud. You're like, 'Oh, God! That's not just a song that's stuck in my head. It's going to let the cat out of the bag.'"

Contributing: Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY

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