Ryan Reynolds

Actor — Deadpool, Deadpool 2

Born

1976

Birthplace

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — British Columbia

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Has never brought it up

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

His first role was on Hillside, a Canadian teen drama that aired in the US as 'Fifteen' — before Deadpool, before Free Guy, before any of it.

The verdict

Born in Vancouver to Canadian parents — his father a former RCMP officer turned food wholesaler — Ryan Reynolds got his start on the Canadian teen drama Hillside before heading south. Dual citizen, full Canadian lineage, and his first acting job was literally a Canadian TV show. Five points. No debate, bud.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable