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Ryan Reynolds' Best Roles

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Nov 25, 2020 5:53 PM
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DreamWorks

The Croods: A New Age

Returning as Guy in The Croods: A New Age, Ryan Reynolds joins his fellow cavemen to navigate the new challenges of meeting a rival family that claims to be higher on the evolution ladder. Just like always, the family sticks together to cover new terrain throughout this epic, uplifting adventure.


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20th Century Fox

Free Guy

In this 20th Century Fox film, Reynolds discovers he is trapped in a digital world called "Free City" and grapples the meaning of life without any agency of his own as a video game character. Once he understands his predetermined destiny, he must take matters into his own hands to live for himself and define his purpose. 


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Pokémon Detective Pikachu

The wise-cracking Pokémon Detective Pikachu (Reynolds) is back and busy as ever in a heated investigation to locate Ace detective Harry Goodman with the help of his son, Tim, in this mystery film. 


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6 Underground

In this action thriller, Reynolds plays one of six individuals to who must delete their past to alter the course of the future. Stream it now on Netflix! 


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ABC

Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place

In this ABC sitcom, Reynolds played Berg, a pre-med student who lived with two of his best friends in Boston. 


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Myriad Pictures

Van Wilder: Party Liaison

Van Wilder (Reynolds) is the life of the party at Coolidge College. However, his way of life may have to change when his father learns he is still in school after seven years in this 2002 comedy.


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New Line Cinema

Blade: Trinity

In Blade: Trinity, the 41-year-old actor plays a former vampire who helps Blade on his quest to fight Dracula. 


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New Line Cinema

Just Friends

It's a blast from the past in this 2005 romantic comedy in which Reynolds plays a man who returns home and runs into his old high school crush and best friend (Amy Smart). Her rejection when they were in school changed his life, but now he wants a second chance.


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Universal Pictures

Smokin' Aces

The Canadian actor plays Richard Messner, an FBI agent, who realizes mob boss Primo Sparazza is out to get performer-turned-informant Buddy Israel, who decided to testify against the mob.


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Definitely, Maybe

In the middle of his divorce, a political consultant (Reynolds) takes a look back at his own relationships when his young daughter (Abigail Breslin) asks about his life before marriage in Definitely, Maybe.


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Miramax

Adventureland

In this 2009 romantic comedy, a summer at the amusement park proves to be the perfect adventure. Reynolds plays the park's maintenance man who is a part-time musician and anything but faithful to his wife.


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20th Century Fox

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Reynolds is Wade Wilson, a mercenary who later becomes Deadpool in this 2009 film.


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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Proposal

Reynolds and Sandra Bullock make a hilarious pair in this 2009 romantic comedy. The actor plays a young assistant who is forced to marry his boss (Bullock) in order for her to stay in the country and avoid deportation.


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Lionsgate

Buried

The Deadpool 2 writer portrays Paul, a man who is buried alive after an attack by a group of Iraq, in Buried. Left with only a lighter and a cell phone, he must find a way to escape before he runs out of air.


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Warner Bros. Entertainment

Green Lantern

Hal Jordan (Reynolds) is a test pilot who is granted a ring which gives him superpowers and leads to him becoming part of the Green Lantern Corps. He then confronts Parallax who is upsetting the balance of power in this 2011 film.


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Universal Pictures

The Change-Up

In The Change-Up, Reynolds plays Dave, a single man without any real responsibility until his world is flipped upside down when he inadvertently switches bodies with Mitch, his childhood friend and a married man with three children.


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Universal Pictures

Safe House

Blake Lively's husband takes on the role of a young CIA agent who is responsible for looking after Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a fugitive in a safe house, in Safe House. The plan quickly changes when gunmen come after Frost and both men go on the run together.


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Universal Studios

R.I.P.D.

Boston police detective Nick (Reynolds) joins the Rest in Peace Department after he is murdered on the job. Throughout the film he tries to find the man who killed him.


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A24 Films

The Captive

Reynolds takes on the role of Matthew, the father of Cassandra, a girl who went missing while in his care eight years ago. The questions around her disappearance still linger from the family and police.


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BBC Films

Woman in Gold

In Woman in Gold, Reynolds plays Randy Schoenberg, a lawyer who helps Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) make a claim to the art restitution board in Austria after her family's art work was taken by Nazis. 


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Focus Features

Self/less

A dying real estate mogul decides to transfer his consciousness into a healthy young man (Reynolds) but quickly realizes that the procedure was not what he thought it would be. 


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20th Century Fox

Deadpool

Reynolds takes on the title character in this 2016 superhero origins story film. He then hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life. 


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Summit Entertainment

Criminal

In Criminal, Reynolds is a CIA agent who is ambushed and killed on a mission in London. His memories are then transferred into a dangerous convict named Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). 


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Columbia Pictures

Life

Reynolds plays an astronaut aboard the space station who discovers a new life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens life on Earth in this 2017 science fiction horror film.


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