Ryan Reynolds Biography
Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside and had minor roles before landing the role of Michael Bergen on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001.
Reynolds starred in films including comedies such as National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Waiting and The Proposal. He also performed in dramatic roles in Buried, Woman in Gold and Life and starred in action films such as Blade: Trinity, Green Lantern and Safe House.
He starred as the title character in Deadpool in 2016. Deadpool received critical and commercial acclaim and set numerous records at the time of its release for an R-rated comedy. Reynolds received numerous accolades for his perfomance, including nominations for the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards. He reprised the role in Deadpool 2.
Ryan Reynolds Age
Born on October 23, 1976, Reynolds is 42 years as of 2018.
Ryan Reynolds Net Worth
Ryan Reynolds has an estimated net worth of $75 million dollars as of 2018.
Ryan Reynolds Wife/Kids
Reynolds married actress Blake Lively, with whom he has two daughters. Reynolds first met Blake Lively in early 2010 while filming Green Lantern, in which she co-starred. Hollyscoop reported they were dating in October 2011. The couple tied the knot on September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. They have two daughters, born in December 2014 and September 2016.
Reynolds began dating Canadian singer Alanis Morissette in 2002. In June 2004, they announced their engagement. Representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced they had mutually decided to end their engagement in February 2007.
Reynolds began dating American actress Scarlett Johansson soon after the end of his relationship with Morissette in 2007. In May 2008, the couple announced their engagement and married on September 27, 2008, in a private ceremony near Tofino, British Columbia.
Reynolds and Johansson on December 14, 2010, announced that they had separated. On December 23, 2010, Reynolds filed for divorce in Los Angeles; Johansson filed her response simultaneously. On July 1, 2011, the divorce was finalized.
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Ryan Reynolds Family
Reynolds father, James Chester “Jim” Reynolds, was a food wholesaler and his mother, Tamara Lee “Tammy” Reynolds a retail salesperson. Chester Ambrose “Ches” Reynolds his grandfather, served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 1944. Reynolds is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a Roman Catholic. The youngest of four brothers, he graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver in 1994. He attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, also in Vancouver, until dropping out. Two of his elder brothers work as police officers in British Columbia, one of whom is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police member.
Ryan Reynolds Career
2004–2015
Reynolds underwent intense physical training to play an action role as the character of Hannibal King in the 2004 film Blade: Trinity although he had performed primarily in comedies. He made a cameo appearance in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as a nurse the same year. In the 2005 remake of the 1979 horror film The Amityville Horror Reynolds played George Lutz.
In 2005, he played a waiter named Monty in Waiting and appeared as music executive Chris Brander in the romantic comedy Just Friends alongside Amy Smart and Anna Faris. He also played an FBI agent alongside Ray Liotta in the 2006 crime action film Smokin’ Aces. In the 2008 film Definitely, Maybe, Reynolds played the protagonist. He also appeared in the second season finale of the television series Scrubs. Reynolds guest-starred as Brendan’s friend Hams in the episode “Douchebag in the City” of the TBS sitcom My Boys in 2007.
Reynolds portrayed Wade Wilson / Weapon XI in a supporting role in the prequel X-Men film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was released in 2009. He had previously spoken of his interest and involvement in a possible film adaptation of Deadpool with screenwriter David S. Goyer as far back as 2005. 2009 also saw Reynolds portray Andrew Paxton, opposite Sandra Bullock, in The Proposal and Mike Connell in Adventureland.
Reynolds starred in the Spanish and American thriller Buried, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Reynolds was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2010. Reynolds portrayed the Hal Jordan version of superhero Green Lantern in Warner Bros.’ film Green Lantern, which was released on June 17, 2011.
The film did not fare well either financially or critically, but his role made him one of the few actors to headline films based on both Marvel and DC characters. He co-starred in the comedy The Change-Up, as well as narrating the documentary film The Whale in 2011. He portrayed an agent in Safe House, alongside Denzel Washington in 2012. He then had starring roles in two Dreamworks Animation feature films, The Croods and Turbo, both released in 2013.
His next role in the Universal Pictures film adaptation of Dark Horse Comics’ R.I.P.D., was portraying Nick Walker which was released in 2013. Reynolds went on to star in low-budget films in 2014; The Voices and The Captive, as well as Mississippi Grind the following year. In 2015, it was followed by a supporting role in the financially successful biographical film, Woman in Gold, before he returned to the thriller genre with Self/Less.
2016–present
Reynolds found critical and commercial success with Deadpool in 2016 a movie that had been in development as early as 2000. Deadpool featured a reboot of the character, ignoring the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and establishing a new backstory for the character that was closer to the Marvel Comics source material.
Reynolds had a supporting role in the Ariel Vromen-directed thriller Criminal in 2016. Reynolds received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard on December 15, 2016. Together with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson Reynolds co-starred in the science fiction thriller Life in 2017, which reunited him with Safe House director Daniel Espinosa.
Reynolds began filming Deadpool 2 in June 2017 and the film opened on May 18, 2018. In a live-action film adaptation of the Detective Pikachu video game in which Reynolds is the voice actor for the CGI detective Pikachu, he will also star as the titular character.
In January 2018, Reynolds signed a three-year first look deal with Fox, starting development on a live-action adaptation of the board game Clue, to be penned by Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Additionally, Reynolds will shoot Free Guy, an action comedy directed by Shawn Levy in which Reynolds will star as a background character who realizes he’s living in a video game in April 2019. He tries to prevent the makers of the game from shutting down his world with the help of an avatar. He will return as the voice of Guy in the sequel to The Croods in 2020.
Reynolds was named the face of Armani Code leading with a campaign for their Absolu scent in January 2019.
Ryan Reynolds Movies/TV Shows
Wade Wilson / Deadpool
Wade Wilson / Deadpool
Guy (voice)
Michael Bryce
One
Detective Pikachu (voice)
Ryan Reynolds
2016-2018Honest Trailers (TV Series)
Deadpool
2018The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series)
Wade / Deadpool
Deadpool
Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Voice of Juggernaut
Wade / Deadpool
2011-2017Family Guy (TV Series)
Ryan Reynolds / Overweight Guy
Michael Bryce
Rory Adams
Rory Adams
Wade Wilson / Deadpool
Hero
Bill Pope
Wade / Deadpool
Young Damian
Randy Schoenberg
Curtis
Matthew Lane
Man Killed by Clinch in Bar (uncredited)
Jerry / Mr. Whiskers (voice) / Bosco (voice) / …
Nick
Turbo (voice)
Guy (voice)
Jared (uncredited)
Matt Weston
Mitch Planko
Hal Jordan / Green Lantern
Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (voice)
Paul Conroy
Captain Excellent
Andrew Paxton
Wade Wilson
Mike Connell
Frank Allen
Michael
Will Hayes
2007My Boys (TV Series)
Hams
Gary / Gavin Taylor / Gabriel
Richard Messner
Chris Brander
Monty
George Lutz
Mr. D
2004-2005Zeroman (TV Series)
Ty Cheese
Hannibal King
Male Nurse
Kevin
Mark Tobias
2003Scrubs (TV Series)
Spence
Mike Hanson
Van Wilder
Quigley
1998-2001Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (TV Series)
Michael ‘Berg’ Bergen
Red Shoes
Karl O’Reilly
Chip
Henry Lipschitz
1995-1998The Outer Limits (TV Series)
Paul Nodel / Derek Tillman
1998The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series)
Howard Ancona
1996The John Larroquette Show (TV Series)
Tony Hemingway, John’s Son
1996In Cold Blood (TV Mini-Series)
Bobby Rupp
Seth
Ben Colson
1996The X-Files (TV Series)
Jay De Boom
1995Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (TV Series)
Griffin
1995The Marshal (TV Series)
Rick
Andy
1993-1994The Odyssey (TV Series)
Macro / Lee
Kevin Bannister
Ganesh / Jeffrey
1991Fifteen (TV Series)
Billy Simpson
2015-2016The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) (performer – 3 episodes)
2009Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (performer – 1 episode)
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