Ryan Reynolds

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Awards

Officer of the Order of Canada2024 · Officer of the Order of Canada
Governor General's Performing Arts Award2020 · Governor General's Performing Arts Award
MTV Movie Award for Best Fight2016 · MTV Movie Award for Best Fight
Canada's Walk of Fame2014 · Canada's Walk of Fame
MTV Movie & TV AwardsMTV Movie & TV Awards
Saturn AwardsSaturn Awards

Biography

Ryan Reynolds is a Canadian and American actor, producer and entrepreneur known for comic roles, action films and the Deadpool franchise. Born Ryan Rodney Reynolds on 23 October 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began acting as a teenager and developed from Canadian television work into a Hollywood leading-man career marked by self-aware comedy, physical action and frequent producing involvement.

Reynolds was raised in Vancouver and attended Kitsilano Secondary School. He began acting at about thirteen and took early parts in Canadian and American television. His first major screen role was Billy Simpson in the teen series Hillside, shown in the United States as Fifteen. He later appeared in programmes including The Odyssey, The X-Files and The Outer Limits, and had early film work in Ordinary Magic. After a period of uncertainty about acting, he moved to Los Angeles and continued pursuing roles.

His American television breakthrough came with the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl, in which he played Michael “Berg” Bergen from 1998 to 2001. The role showcased his timing in fast, verbal comedy and helped lead to film opportunities. Reynolds' early film career included comedies such as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting... and Just Friends, while he also took action and horror roles in Blade: Trinity, The Amityville Horror and Smokin' Aces. These projects established him as a performer comfortable with both wisecracking comedy and physically demanding genre work.

During the late 2000s and early 2010s, Reynolds moved between romantic comedy, drama and superhero films. The Proposal, opposite Sandra Bullock, became one of his most commercially successful pre-Deadpool releases. He also appeared in Adventureland, Buried, Safe House and Woman in Gold. His first appearances in comic-book adaptations were unevenly received: he played Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the title role in Green Lantern. The latter film was a high-profile disappointment, but Reynolds later turned that setback into part of the public humour surrounding his career.