Life and career

Evangelista was born in New York City and graduated Herbert Berghof School of Acting. She performed in several off-Broadway shows and later made guest appearances on Law & Order, White Collar, Royal Pains, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, 666 Park Avenue, and she also had a series regular role in the Spike TV series The Kill Point, in 2007. She also played supporting roles in films The Good Guy (2009), The Joneses (2009) and starred in the independent features Goodbye Baby (2007), Escapee (2011), and Alter Egos (2012).

In 2013, Evangelista starred as a series regular in the short-lived ABC drama series, Lucky 7. In 2014, she was cast in the recurring role as Allison Rafferty in the NBC series Chicago Fire. She had the leading role in the independent film Red Butterfly (2014), and later had supporting parts in films The Intern and Bleed for This. In 2015, Evangelista co-starred alongside Christine Lahti and Terry O'Quinn on the ABC drama pilot, The Adversaries. Later that year, she was cast as lead in the E! pilot The Arrangement, playing young actress described as a Cinderella of modern times, who cast as female lead in a summer blockbuster opposite the hottest actor in Hollywood.

Filmography

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