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Ryan Rodney Reynolds (born October 23, 1976) is a Canadian and American actor, entrepreneur and film producer. Known for starring in comedicand superhero films, he was the world's second-highest-paid actor in 2020 and 2024. Reynolds has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. His films as a leading actor have grossed $6.6 billion worldwide. Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Reynolds began acting at the age of thirteen, taking on small roles in various television series. He had his first lead role in the teen soap opera Hillside (1991–1993), then played the lead role in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (1998–2001). Reynolds later starred in a range of films, including the commercially successful romantic comedies National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Waiting... (2005), and The Proposal (2009), the critically unsuccessful superhero films Blade: Trinity (2004), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and Green Lantern (2011), and the biographical drama Woman in Gold (2015). Reynolds achieved his greatest commercial success as the titular character in the Deadpool franchise, starring in Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). His performance in the first received a Golden Globe nomination, while the latter emerged as his highest-grossing release. He has since appeared in the sci-fi horror Life (2017), and action films like 6 Underground (2019), Free Guy (2021), and The Adam Project (2022). Reynolds has also lent his voice to animated films, including The Croods franchise (2013–2020), Turbo (2013), and the animated character Pikachu in Detective Pikachu (2019). In 2017, Time included Reynolds in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2010 and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. A businessman, he holds an ownership stake in Mint Mobile and is a co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham; the latter is documented in the Emmy Award-winning television series Welcome to Wrexham (2022–present). Divorced from actress Scarlett Johansson, Reynolds has been married to Blake Lively since 2012; he has four children with the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Reynolds, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Ryan Reynolds

Jacob 'Jake' Pollock
for Jacob 'Jake' Pollock in Blackstone
Suggested by jake_blastercaster24

Pitch: Kyle McKnight's father Robert dies..., this leaves Kyle distraught. Kyle is a troubled teen, whose somewhat of a social outcast at school but had his small group of friends that support and help him. Robert was like Kyle's best friend, however Kyle never knew anything about his father's job, what he did while he wasn't home. Kyle and friends all join a MMA fighting club at school to train, while Kyle releases his anger while fighting/training. Later at the funeral of Kyle's father, a man named Hank Striker who claims to know Kyle's father shows up. Hank meets with him asking for Kyle's help. He's an old friend of Robert and worked with him in the Special Forces Program: SILVERRIM, which had be infiltrated and obliterated from the inside by a mole in the agency. It is revealed that Kyle has received special training from his father (that Kyle didn't really view as training) to take his place in the agency (along side with his MMA training). Hank Striker is the only surviving Agent of the agency and recruits Kyle to help him solve a conspiracy among SILVERRIM. Kyle agrees to join and suggests that he should recruits ones for the team too. The newly formed team codenamed: BLACKSTONE, soon find out that there is something much bigger at stake, an unknown virus is being planned to be shot in the atmosphere to expose the whole planet. But they soon learn that the man that they thought was dead is behind the whole thing. Kyle's father... But how?... **TWO MAJOR TWISTS**
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