Ryan Reynolds

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Ryan Reynolds

Born (1976-10-23) October 23, 1976
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation Actor and producer
Years active 1991–present
Spouse(s) Scarlett Johansson (m. 2008; div. 2011)
Blake Lively (m. 2012)
Children 1

Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian actor and producer. He portrayed Michael Bergen on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1998–2001), Billy Simpson in the YTV Canadian teen soap opera Hillside (1991–93), as well as Marvel Comics characters Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity (2004), Wade Wilson / Weapon XI in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and the title character in Deadpool (2016). Additionally, he portrayed the Hal Jordan version of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern in the film of the same name (2011). Reynolds has also starred in films such as National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), The Amityville Horror (2005), Definitely, Maybe (2008), The Proposal (2009), Buried (2010), Mississippi Grind (2015), and Woman in Gold (2015).

Early life

Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, James Chester "Jim" Reynolds (1941–2015),[1][2] was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tammy, is a retail salesperson.[3] He is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a Roman Catholic.[4][5] The youngest of four brothers,[6] he graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver in 1994. He attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, also in Vancouver, until dropping out.[7] Two of his elder brothers work as police officers in British Columbia,[8] one of whom is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police member.[9]

Career

Reynolds' career began in 1990, when he starred as Billy Simpson in the Canadian-produced teen soap Hillside, distributed in the United States by Nickelodeon as Fifteen. In 1996, he co-starred with Melissa Joan Hart in the TV movie Sabrina the Teenage Witch.[10] As an adult, Reynolds starred in the American television series Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, and the National Lampoon movie Van Wilder, playing medical student Michael "Berg" Bergen. In 1993–94 he had a recurring role in The Odyssey as Macro.[11] He also cameoed in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle as a nurse, appeared in The In-Laws with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, as well as in the Canadian production Foolproof.[12]

Reynolds in April 2007

In 2005, he played a waiter named Monty in Waiting..., and as music executive Chris Brander in the romantic comedy Just Friends alongside Amy Smart and Anna Faris. Reynolds played the protagonist in the 2008 film Definitely, Maybe.[13] He has also appeared in the second season finale of the television series Scrubs. In 2007, Reynolds guest-starred as Brendan's friend Hams in the episode "Douchebag in the City" of the TBS sitcom My Boys. In 2009, he portrayed Andrew Paxton, starring opposite Sandra Bullock, in The Proposal,[14] and Mike Connell in Adventureland.[15]

Although he has performed primarily in comedies, Reynolds underwent intense physical training to play an action role as the character of Hannibal King in the 2004 film Blade: Trinity.[16] Reynolds played George Lutz in the 2005 remake of the 1979 horror film The Amityville Horror.[17] Additionally, he played an FBI agent alongside Ray Liotta in the 2006 crime action film Smokin' Aces.[18]

In a March 2005 interview, Reynolds spoke of his interest and involvement in a possible film adaptation of Deadpool with screenwriter David S. Goyer,[19] as well as the possibility of playing the incarnation of The Flash known as Wally West in an adaption of the popular DC Comics character in an upcoming movie project. Reynolds portrayed Wade Wilson / Weapon XI in a supporting role in the prequel X-Men film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009); a role that he would later reprise in a spin-off feature film based on the character released in 2016.[20]

Reynolds at the X-Men Origins: Wolverine premiere in Tempe, Arizona (2009)

In 2010, Reynolds starred in the Spanish and American thriller Buried, which screened at the Sundance film festival.[21] In June 2010, Reynolds was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[22] Reynolds portrayed the Hal Jordan version of superhero Green Lantern in Warner Bros.' film Green Lantern, released on June 17, 2011 in 3D. Though the film didn't fare well both financially and critically, this role made him one of the few actors to headline in films based on both Marvel and DC characters.[23] In 2011 he co-starred in the comedy, The Change-Up, as well as being the narrator for documentary film, The Whale. In 2012, he portrayed an agent in Safe House, alongside Denzel Washington.[24] He then had starring roles in two Dreamworks Animation feature films; The Croods and Turbo, both released in 2013. His next role was in portraying Nick Walker in the Universal Pictures film adaptation of Dark Horse Comics' R.I.P.D. (Rest in Peace Department), which was released in 2013.[25] Reynolds went on to star in low-budget films, The Voices (2014), The Captive (2014), and Mississippi Grind (2015); before having a supporting-role in the financially successful biographical film, Woman in Gold (2015). Reynolds returned the thriller genre, with Self/Less (2015) where he played a dual-role (something he had done before in his career).

Reynolds at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2016, Reynolds found critical and commercial success with Deadpool, a movie that had been in development as early as 2000. After portraying Wade Wilson / Weapon XI, without the name Deadpool, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he became heavily involved in the development of a Deadpool film. 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. The film takes place within the larger X-Men film universe, being made possible by the reset timeline in X-Men: Days of Future Past.[26] The film made several box-office records, including: A worldwide opening of $264.9 million from 62 markets, which is the biggest of 2016, the biggest for an R-rated film, and the second biggest for Fox, only behind Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith ($303.9 million).[27][28] It also recorded the biggest IMAX 2D worldwide opening of all time with $27.4 million from 606 IMAX theatres, eclipsing The Dark Knight Rises ($23.8 million).[29][30] The movie's financial and critical success led the studio to move forward with a sequel. Also that year, Reynolds had a supporting role in the Ariel Vromen-directed thriller Criminal.

His next project, a science fiction-thriller titled, Life will be released in 2017. The film will reunite him will Safe House director Daniel Espinosa, and is set to co-star Rebecca Ferguson.[31]

In the media

In October 2008, Reynolds wrote for The Huffington Post regarding his plan to run the New York City Marathon for his father who, at the time, suffered from Parkinson's disease.[32] Reynolds appeared in People's Sexiest Man Alive lists in 2008[33] and 2009,[34] and was awarded the top honour in 2010.[35] In April 2011, he was ranked #15 on People's Most Beautiful 2011 list.[36] People magazine named Reynolds as the Sexiest Dad Alive in 2016.[37]

On February 12, 2012, Reynolds appeared on the BBC's Top Gear as the Star In a Reasonably-Priced Car. He posted a time of 1:43.7.[38]

Personal life

Reynolds with Blake Lively, promoting Green Lantern at Comic-Con 2010

In 2002, Reynolds began dating Canadian singer Alanis Morissette. They announced their engagement in June 2004.[39] In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced they had mutually decided to end their engagement.[40] Morissette said her album Flavors of Entanglement was created out of her grief after the break-up. The song "Torch" was written about Reynolds.[41]

Soon after the end of his relationship with Morissette in 2007, Reynolds began dating American actress Scarlett Johansson.[42] The couple announced their engagement in May 2008,[43] and married on September 27, 2008, in a quiet ceremony near Tofino, British Columbia.[44] On December 14, 2010, Reynolds and Johansson announced that they had separated.[45] Reynolds filed for divorce in Los Angeles on December 23, 2010;[46] Johansson filed her response simultaneously.[47] The divorce was finalized on July 1, 2011.[48]

Reynolds first met his Green Lantern co-star Blake Lively while filming in early 2010.[49] In October 2011, Hollyscoop reported they were dating.[50] In June 2012, Reynolds and Lively purchased a home in Bedford, New York.[51] The couple married on September 9, 2012, at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.[52] They have one daughter, James[53][54] born in December 2014.[55] On April 14, 2016, it was reported that Reynolds and Lively are expecting their second child.[56]

Filmography

Selected filmography

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds' father dies at 74". USA Today. October 28, 2015.
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  4. ↑ Posner, Michael (September 1, 2007). "Ryan Reynolds' Disappearing Act". enRoute (Air Canada's inflight magazine). Retrieved June 17, 2010. Reynolds grew up in an Irish-Catholic household in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano. As a child, he went to church regularly
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  9. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds almost copped it". The Sydney Morning Herald. smh.com.au. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
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  11. ↑ "A Look Back at Ryan Reynolds’ Weird and Wonderful TV Career". film.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Foolproof (2003)". movie-gazette.com/. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds is stuck in the wrong movie in 'Definitely, Maybe'". New York: nydailynews.com. June 3, 2008. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Discuss 'The Proposal'". about.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds Finds Himself Lost in ‘Adventureland’". movieweb.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds talks ‘Blade: Trinity’". movieweb.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds Goes for Scares with "The Amityville Horror"". About.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Smokin' Aces RYAN REYNOLDS INTERVIEW". movieweb.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  19. ↑ Stax (March 21, 2005). "The Latest on The Flash & Deadpool". IGN. Retrieved March 12, 2009.
  20. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds Gets Deadpool Spin-off". TVGuide.com. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
  21. ↑ "Sundance '10: Ryan Reynolds Speaks to Us from Inside a Coffin: 'Buried' Trailer Debut!". Bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
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  24. ↑ "Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy?". time.com. February 9, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  25. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds Playing the Undead in 'R.I.P.D.' Adaptation".
  26. ↑ Holmes, Matt (March 28, 2011). "Producer Says 'X-Men 4 & 5 In Active Development, 'Deadpool' is 'Total Reboot'". Whatculture!.
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  31. ↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. "‘Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds To Star With Rebecca Ferguson In ‘Life’". Deadline.com.
  32. ↑ Reynolds, Ryan (October 9, 2008). "Ryan Reynolds: Why I'm Running the New York City Marathon". HuffingtonPost.com, Inc (The Huffington Post). Retrieved March 12, 2009.
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  36. ↑ "PEOPLE's Most Beautiful 2011". People.com. April 13, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
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  41. ↑ "Alanis Morissette Talks Ryan Reynolds Breakup, Covering 'My Humps' — Access Hollywood". Access Hollywood. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
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  46. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson's Divorce Finalized". UsMagazine.com. January 7, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  47. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds Files For Divorce From Scarlett". TMZ. Retrieved December 23, 2010.
  48. ↑ "Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson's Divorce Finalized". Us Weekly. July 1, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
  49. ↑ "Green Lantern Production Begins Today!". Screenrant.com. June 17, 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  50. ↑ Vanderberg, Madison (October 12, 2011). "It's Confirmed: Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are Dating". Hollyscoop.com. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
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  53. ↑ Hines, Ree (March 20, 2015). "Ryan Reynolds reveals his baby's name on 'Today'". Today. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  54. ↑ Freydkin, Donna (February 2, 2015). "No, Blake and Ryan's daughter is NOT named Violet". USA Today. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  55. ↑ Leon, Anya (January 7, 2015). "Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Welcome a Daughter". People. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
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