Ryan Reynolds

Overview

Born
October 23, 1976 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birth name
Ryan Rodney Reynolds
Nickname
- Ry Rey
Height
6′ 2″ (1.88 m)

Biography

Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. Between 1991-93, Ryan appeared in Fifteen (1990), a Nickelodeon series taped in Florida with many other Canadian actors. After the series ended, he returned to Vancouver where he played in a series of forgettable television movies. He did small roles in Glenn Close's Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) and CBS's update of In Cold Blood (1996). However, his run of luck had led him to decide to quit acting.

One night, he ran into fellow Vancouver actor and native Chris William Martin. Martin found Ryan rather despondent and told him to pack everything: they were going to head to Los Angeles, California. The two stayed in a cheap Los Angeles motel. On the first night of their stay, Reynolds' jeep was rolled downhill and stripped. For the next four months, Ryan drove it without doors. In 1997, he landed the role of Berg in Two Guys and a Girl (1998). Initially, the show was reviled by critics and seemed desperate for any type of ratings success. However, it was renewed for a second season but with a provision for a makeover by former Roseanne (1988) writer Kevin Abbott. The show became a minor success and has led to additional film roles for Ryan, most notably in the last-ever MGM film, a remake of The Amityville Horror (2005). Ryan was engaged to Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, another Nickelodeon veteran, between 2004-2006.

He has been married to Blake Lively since September 9, 2012. They have three daughters and a son. He was previously married to Scarlett Johansson.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Sacksteder <jsack@ka.net>

Family

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Trademarks

Has appeared in several superhero/comic book adaptations, especially as Deadpool.
Often plays likeable regular guys
Sarcastic sharp edged wit paired with a frequent stone-faced delivery
Tattoo on his left wrist

Trivia

He first became a fan of Deadpool when he found a comic where Deadpool describes himself as looking like "Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar-Pei".
Failed his high-school drama class due to non-attendance.
In November 2008, he ran in the New York City Marathon on behalf of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. His father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1995.
Has a fear of flying since he once went skydiving and his parachute failed to open at the first attempt.
When his first daughter was born, a good friend of his (whom he described as close enough to him to be there when the baby was born), tried to sell pictures of her to a tabloid magazine. A furious Reynolds confronted the friend, confirmed the story was true, then told him that their friendship was destroyed and they would never see or speak to each other ever again. The tabloid did not use the pictures because it would have left them open to a massive invasion of privacy lawsuit.

Quotes

(on kissing the older woman in Van Wilder (2002)) On that note, that being said, it was damn hard kissing her. You've never experienced anything until you've had a mature, darting tongue in your mouth.
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
[on his relationship with Alanis Morissette] Our relationship couldn't be better. There's no truth to the rumours we would temporarily broken up.
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'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.