Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, Canada. He started out on television where he started to slowly build a name for himself. It was not until the 2002 comedy National Lampoon’s Van Wilder that he got his first major breakthrough. Since then, Reynolds has played in several genres of movies such as comic book action and serious dramas. After he starred in The Green Lantern (2011), his career began to take off and he starred in a wide array of genres. Reynolds biggest hit is easily Deadpool (2016) that he had been pushing to have done and it was a box office hit with a total of 300 million dollars worldwide on its opening weekend. With all of the …show more content…
Anyone who bought the Deadpool movie on dvd will know that there is a pamphlet explaining the risks of testicular cancer and explaining how to check for it. There is also a side where it shows how to check for breast cancer. Reynolds had even dedicated his honorary Critics’ Choice Award to children’s cancer charities such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the SickKids Foundation of Toronto. He used his role in Deadpool as a stepping point to bring these charities to light because in the movie, his character, Wade Wilson, had been diagnosed with