Inside Luke Evans' Relationship With Partner Fran Tomas

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Luke Evans spent years working too fast and furiously to really enjoy life, let alone date anyone for an extended period of time.

But then the Welsh actor met Fran Tomas in 2021, and fate took its course.

"I thought, 'Oh here we go, another victim of my career, my new relationship,'" Evans recalled to Out in 2024, "and somehow, we managed to make it work."

He spent most of their first year together filming in Colombia while Tomas, who's from Madrid, was living in Spain. Yet they transcended those long-distance early days and have been together ever since, making their red carpet debut at the September 2022 premiere of Pinocchio.

Tomas, an architect and construction project manager, "keeps me grounded and keeps me calm in this strange world that I live in," Evans said, calling his partner "a great human being" and "the best part of me, for sure."

They most certainly complement each other, the duo cutting a dashing figure at the 2026 Tony Awards June 7, where Evans was nominated for his lead turn as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the Studio 54 revival of The Rocky Horror Show, his Broadway debut.

"This opportunity arose and I questioned it for many, many weeks before I finally said yes," Evans told E! News on the red carpet. "And I'm so glad I did, not just because it's different to everything I've done, but you don't often get to show all the colors that you have as an actor in one role."

And while the Tony in his category went to Ragtime star Joshua Henry, Evans still won the night with his glam-tastic performance of "Sweet Transvestite."

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“I thought I was going to be very self-conscious and very nervous and very vulnerable, because it’s a very revealing costume," Evans told New York Theatre Guide in May of his "full drag" Rocky Horror look, including towering high heels. "But it was completely the opposite. I feel powerful. I feel strong, I feel confident, I feel like I can take on the world."

And the 47-year-old didn't always feel that way, writing in his 2024 memoir Boy From the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey that he "didn't stand a chance" as a skinny, sensitive kid growing up in a religious Jehovah's Witness household in small-town Wales.

He came out to his parents when he was 19, telling the BBC in 2024, "We've been through a lot together. What we've done is we've come through two very different journeys in life where love has risen above everything."

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But, as Evans has explained, after he moved to London at 16 he was never not openly living his life, including once he broke out in Hollywood playing Apollo in 2010's Clash of the Titans.

“I wasn’t hiding, even then,” he told the New York Times in April of his action hero heyday. “I had to do it. I had to walk so that the future generations of gay actors could run.”

And though he spent a lot of years in the meantime at least trying to keep the focus on his work, not denying anything but also not pointedly discussing his sexuality, Evans did decide early on in his career that he wasn't going to lead a double life.

Back in 2002, when he appeared in the West End production of the Boy George musical Taboo, Evans told The Advocate, "I knew I was going to have to do interviews with gay magazines [to promote the show]...So I thought, Well, I'm going to have to be open. It's who I am. And if people don't like it, then I don't want their jobs."

Lying about his sexuality could put him on a "slippery slope downward," he explained, "and I didn't want to start that at 22. If that means I'm going to be a poor man at 60, then at least I've lived a happy, open, gay life and not had to hide it from anybody."

Evans ultimately didn't have to choose between a career and personal fulfillment—“I play straight more than I play gay,” he told the NY Times. “Why the hell not? I’m acting. I can do anything”—but being so busy did make sustaining a relationship tough.

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Therefore, he didn't have much to share publicly about his romantic prospects, telling Cosmopolitan in 2010 that he'd love to adopt several dogs and "share them with someone else."

Now, he's got the dog—"Summer NYC nights with the other [love] of my life," Evans captioned a May 27 Instagram pic with his miniature dachshund Lala—and the someone else.

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When Evans is not on Broadway or otherwise working, he and Tomas split their time between Ibiza and Lisbon. And their family might grow beyond fur babies one day, with Evans writing in his memoir, "I do want to have children, and hope I'm able to do so in the next five years, whether that's through adoption or surrogacy." He and Tomas had talked about it, he noted, calling his fellow fitness buff someone "with whom I can certainly see myself becoming a parent."

And in addition to that ultimate compliment, the Beauty and the Beast alum has had no shortage of material when it comes to singing his partner's praises.

"He’s kind, calm. He’s happy. He’s positive. He’s a hard worker," Evans told Out. "He literally makes me a better person. And he has to put up with my s--t, which, I can’t imagine what that would be like.”

Apparently, it's not all that bad, as the couple also co-founded the clothing brand BDXY.

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"We're a great team in life. He's my best friend," Evans told People in 2024. "He's the calm, deep waters, and I am the rushing, bubbly water. And between the two of us, we can solve anything."

Working together was practically a given, he added, as Tomas "blows my mind. He's so impressive in everything he does, in the business—and in life."

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