Ryan Reynolds

Birth Name: Ryan Rodney Reynolds

Nickname/Stage Name: Ryan Reynolds

Birth Date: October 23, 1976

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller, Superhero

Occupation: Actor, Film Producer

Years Active: 1991 till Present

Net Worth: $150 million

 

Personal life

Ryan Reynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of four sons. He started dating actress Alanis Morissette in 2002 and they got engaged two years later. It was announced that they had decided to end their engagement in 2007.

The actor became romantically linked with actress Scarlett Johansson in 2007. They announced their engagement in May 2008.

Reynolds and Johansson got married on September 27, 2007, in a private ceremony in British Columbia. Their separation was revealed to the public in December 2010.

He and actress Blake Lively started dating in October 2011 and tied the nuptial knot on September 9, 2012, in South Carolina.

The couple has three daughters.

Education

Reynolds graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in 1994 and enrolled at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Career

He has been involved in acting since he was thirteen years of age but his career began in 1991 in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside.

Reynolds had a supporting role in the 13th episode of the third season of The X-Files and starred alongside Melissa Joan Hart in the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996).

In 1998, the actor starred in Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place and also headlined Van Wilder in 2002. He underwent intense physical training to play the character of Hannibal King in the 2004 film Blade: Trinity.

Between 2005 and 2015, he appeared in Waiting..., X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Green Lantern, Safe House, R.I.P.D., The Captive, and Self/Less.

Reynolds' career got a major boost when he found critical acclaim with Deadpool (2016). He reprised the role of the eponymous character in the sequel and featured in other films like Free Guy (2021), Red Notice (2021), and The Adam Project (2022).

Awards

Teen Choice Award (2005, 2016)

People's Choice Award (2012, 2017)

Critics' Choice Movie Award (2016)

Entertainment Weekly Entertainer of the Year Award (2016)

MTV Movie Award (2016)

Saturn Award (2017)

Quotes

"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst."

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

" I get noticed depending on where I am. I have no problem wandering all around Spain. But the Germans - ah, the Germans - they are like "Oh! Van Wilder's a party animal!".

Trivia

He failed his high school drama class.

Two of his three older brothers are policemen.

He injured his back while jumping from a bridge in 2002.

Movies

Ordinary Magic (1993)

The Alarmist (1997)

Dick (1999)

National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)

Castle (2004)

The Amityville Horror (2005)

The Nines (2007)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Green Lantern (2011)

Turbo (2013)

Deadpool (2016)

Life (2017)

Deadpool 2 (2018)

6 Underground (2019)

Red Notice (2021)

The Adam Project (2022)