He first became a Deadpool fan when he found a comic book in which Deadpool describes himself as looking like "Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar-Pei".
He failed a high school drama class because of absenteeism.
In November 2008 he ran the New York City Marathon on behalf of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. His father was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1995.
He has a fear of flying, having once gone skydiving and had his parachute fail to open on the first attempt.
When his first daughter was born, a close friend (whom he described as close enough to be present at the birth) tried to sell pictures of her to a tabloid magazine. An angry Reynolds confronted the friend, confirmed the story was true, then told him their friendship was ruined and that they would never see or speak to each other again. The tabloid did not use the photos, as it would have left itself open to a major invasion-of-privacy lawsuit.
He gained 25 kilos of muscle for his role as Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity (2004).
On April 12, 2015, he was involved in a hit-and-run in Canada while filming Deadpool (2016). As he was walking through a parking lot, a paparazzo's car struck him and then fled the scene. Reynolds suffered only minor injuries and later joked about the incident on Twitter.
He did not enjoy working on Green Lantern (2011). He admits he had a bad working relationship with director Martin Campbell. He also said the film's critical and financial failure was a great relief, because he did not want to play Hal Jordan again.
On Halloween 2015 he went trick-or-treating with children dressed as the character Deadpool, promoting his lead role in Deadpool (2016).
He is the youngest of four brothers. Two of his brothers are police officers. His father's grandfather, Chester "Ches" Reynolds, was a Canadian politician and a member of the Alberta Social Credit Party. Chester was an MLA in Alberta from 1940 to 1944.
He married his fiancée Scarlett Johansson on September 27, 2008, in a private ceremony held in Canada.
In 2002 he seriously injured his back while jumping off a bridge in Zurich, Switzerland.
Warner Bros, meanwhile, stated that he was very interested in playing the DC Comics character The Flash. It would have to decide to make a film adaptation of the comic.
The role of Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) reportedly went to Nicholas Brendon because of his own unpleasant high school experiences. Star Sarah Michelle Gellar refused to believe it when she was told during a "Buffy" trivia quiz promoted by SheKnows.com.
He is one of the few actors to have appeared in films adapted from comics in both the Marvel Comics (X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and Deadpool (2016)) and DC Comics (Green Lantern (2011)) catalogues.
In 2014 he was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario.
In early 2001 he met actress Rachael Leigh Cook and the two hit it off immediately. However, Rachael had to fly to England shortly afterwards to shoot Blow Dry (2001). Ryan eventually surprised her, left his shooting schedule and followed her all the way to London. It worked, and they began dating for a year.
In June 2004 he became engaged to his girlfriend of two years, Canadian singer Alanis Morissette; in June 2006 they announced that the engagement had been called off.
He was named "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine around the same time his wife Scarlett Johansson was named "Babe of the Year" by GQ magazine.
On December 15, 2016, he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Among the guest speakers at the ceremony was actress-singer Anna Faris.
He was travelling in Indonesia with his then-fiancée Alanis Morissette when the tsunami struck. They were unharmed because they were staying on the other side of the island hit by the tsunami.
He can speak English and French, and a little Italian, Spanish and Irish.
As T-Mobile recently acquired Mint Mobile, Ryan still retains creative control over the company's advertising agency through the 25% stake he reports holding in the company.
He is co-owner, along with actor Rob Mac, of the Welsh football team Wrexham, which they bought in 2020.
He can do a standing backflip.
He earned a place on Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" issue, with a tribute written by Dame Helen Mirren.
On May 12, 2018, while promoting Deadpool 2 (2018) in Berlin, Germany, Reynolds attended a Fußball-Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC and RB Leipzig. Speaking to sports reporter Jens Westen of Sky Germany before the match, Reynolds revealed that he had been an ambitious footballer between the ages of 6 and 16. He said that although he played with great ambition, he had to realise early on that he would never be good enough to make a career as a professional athlete.
I worked in a grocery store.
He was nominated for a Youth in Film Award for Best Actor for his work on Nickelodeon's teen drama Fifteen (1990).
He lives in the hugely popular Los Angeles neighbourhood of Los Feliz. Giovanni Ribisi, Bo Barrett, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pine, Brad Pitt, Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Stuart, Michael Cera, Robert Pattinson and Hannah Telle are among the other actors who call Los Feliz home.
I'm a big Green Bay Packers fan.
Ryan Reynolds played Seth in Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), the film he referenced in Deadpool 2 (2018). Producer and writer Mike Sims is a huge fan of the Deadpool films and works with Barney Cohen, the writer of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), on the television programme The Lazarus Game.
His ancestry is Irish, Scottish, one-eighth Luxembourgish (from Luxembourg), English, Cornish, and more distantly Dutch and German. Some of his ancestors were American-born, including his paternal grandfather, who was born in Chicago as the child of a Canadian father from Peterborough and an American (Irish-American) mother from New Orleans. His father's grandmother was born in Kansas. His maternal grandfather, Neil Alexander Stewart, was a well-known doctor.
In the series If These Walls Could Talk (1995), he played a ghost trapped in a haunted house. Ironically, in The Amityville Horror (2005), he plays a living man trapped in a haunted house.
When he was still a toddler, a newspaper gave his address for no apparent reason, accompanied by a photo of him taken at the local pool.
He attended high school in Vancouver, Canada, with Joshua Jackson.
He is often feuding with Hugh Jackman.
Ryan claims that he and Paul Anka are friends and get together occasionally.
He attended Kwantlen College for a few months before leaving to continue his acting career.
He is the only actor to appear in all 65 episodes of Fifteen (1990).
He and Chris William Martin are the only two actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of Fifteen (1990).
He accompanied musician Alanis Morissette at the 2003 Juno Music Awards in Canada.
He took part in the World Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament held in Haikou, China.
Apart from his birth year, he shares his birthday with Emilia Clarke.
He is the son-in-law of Ernie Lively and Elaine Lively.
Taylor Swift is the godmother of James, Ryan's daughter with Blake Lively.
He is the brother-in-law of Eric Lively, Bart Johnson and Robyn Lively.
He is the former son-in-law of Karsten Johansson and Melanie Sloan.
He is the former brother-in-law of Vanessa Johansson, Hunter Johansson, Adrian Johansson and Christian Johansson.