--- title: Chris Evans and Betty White at the Peoples Choice Awards description: Thank you for being a friend, Chris Evans canonical: https://time.com/3659988/chris-evans-betty-white-peoples-choice-awards/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-08T18:38:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:11.514Z og:title: Chris Evans and Betty White at the Peoples Choice Awards og:description: Thank you for being a friend, Captain America og:url: https://time.com/3659988/chris-evans-betty-white-peoples-choice-awards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bf39811dd863ee6/698778e906f2c1c83e33348f/461148694.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: 461148694 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chris Evans and Betty White at the Peoples Choice Awards twitter:description: Thank you for being a friend, Captain America twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bf39811dd863ee6/698778e906f2c1c83e33348f/461148694.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Chris Evans Help Betty White Up the Stairs in Cutest Moment at the People's Choice Awards > Sponsored content. 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Actress Betty White accepts the award for Favorite TV Icon during The 41st Annual People's Choice Awards at Nokia Theatre LA Live on January 7, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.Christopher Polk—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 8, 2015 6:38 PM UTC Betty White received a helping hand from Captain America (Chris Evans) Wednesday night, and it was the most adorable moment from the entire [People’s Choice Awards](http://time.com/3658947/the-peoples-choice-awards-you-did-this-to-yourselves/). (Chloe Grace Moretz besting Meryl Streep for Favorite Movie Actress was a close second.) White won the award for Favorite TV Icon, and when the 93-year old actress was called up on stage, Chris Evans’s training as the ever-gallant Captain America kicked in, and he immediately jumped up to offer the stunned _Golden Girls_ star a hand and escorted her up to the stage. While Evans may [want to quit acting](http://time.com/37320/chris-evans-captain-america-retiring/) after his six-movie deal with Marvel, hopefully he will never stop playing the hero. Watch White’s entire acceptance speech here: ### Veteran Actors Before They Were Stars  Betty White One of White’s earliest television roles was as a co-host on a live variety show called Hollywood on Television in 1949\. More than 60 years later, White is now in The Guinness World Records as the female entertainer with the longest television career. NBCUniversal/Getty Images  Judi Dench Before having to deal with James Bond’s oft-infuriating antics as the first female to play “M,” Dench spent most of her career gracing the stages of British theater and television. Jimmy Sime—Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Christopher Lloyd The time traveler with the iconic static cling hair landed his first movie gig as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but he spent most of his early career in the spotlight as an ex-hippie cabbie named “Reverend” Jim Ignatowski on the sitcom Taxi. NBC/Getty Images  Tommy Lee Jones The man in black’s first film role was as a Harvard student in Love Story (1970), but he didn’t have to pretend to be an ivy leaguer -- he was one. Jones graduated with a B.A. in English from Harvard and was also an offensive guard on the school’s undefeated 1968 varsity football team. Harvard/Collegiate Images/Getty Images  Robert De Niro De Niro had several roles in minor films in the 60s, before making his mark on Hollywood playing Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Michael Caine It takes decades of acting experience in order to be able to babysit eccentric billionaires with a penchant for wearing black. Born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, the British actor would adopt the stage name “Michael Scott” and finally “Michael Caine” in the 1950s when he toured the various theaters in England to start off his career. Popperfoto/Getty Images  Meryl Streep The perennial Oscar contender’s first feature film was Julia (1977), but it was her performance in The Deer Hunter (1978) in the following year that landed Streep her first, of many, Academy Award nominations. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Helen Mirren A mainstay in British theater for much of her career, one of Mirren’s earliest film roles was as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968). David Farrell—Getty Images  Ian McKellen The wizard in white spent much of his early career on the stage becoming a fixture in British theater, but it wasn’t until the 1990s when he began to garner attention from a wider audience for his roles in films such as Six Degrees of Separation (1993). Popperfoto/Getty Images  Maggie Smith Before she was the head of Gryffindor House, Maggie Smith honed her craft in British theaters like the prestigious Royal National Theatre. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Bill Murray The party crashing ghostbuster got his start on television as a cast member on the short-lived ABC variety show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell in 1975, before joining NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 1977. 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