Steve Carell plays Evan Baxter, the character who builds an ark in the film Evan Almighty.
Released in 2007, Evan Almighty is a comedy sequel to Bruce Almighty. Carell portrays Evan Baxter, a newly elected congressman whose life changes when God instructs him to construct an ark in Virginia. The film uses the Noah story as its central comic framework while placing the events in a modern American setting.
Morgan Freeman plays God, while Lauren Graham portrays Evan’s wife, Joan. The film’s large ark set and animal-arrival scenes are among its best-known production elements. Although the plot draws heavily on Genesis, Evan Baxter is a fictional modern character rather than Noah himself.
The title can lead to confusion with Bruce Almighty, in which Jim Carrey plays Bruce Nolan. Carrey does not play the ark-building protagonist in Evan Almighty; Carell took the lead role in the sequel.