--- description: Ryan Reynolds is on the TIME 100 2017 list. Helen Mirren wrote about the actor. title: Ryan Reynolds by Helen Mirren: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73fdcfc36a72b2f0/6988c33a86f68e8d096e44ab/time-100-2017-ryan-reynolds.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 20, 2017 # Ryan Reynolds by Helen Mirren  Photograph by Art Streiber—August Can the name be real? It is such a perfect movie-star name, like something that could be on a ’40s marquee. How fitting, then, that Ryan Reynolds has the same loose-limbed charm as Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. He’s the Everyman, but somehow with more of everything: wit, elegance, looks and general hunkiness. Of course, in the real world—for us, this was often at 6 a.m. in a makeup trailer—Ryan is also rumpled, kind, committed and generous, especially to women. He likes them in the most simple, direct, unadorned way: for their humanity. (How very appropriate that he is the father of two girls.) He has a natural wit, which he often turns on himself, and he can balance his private and public life with great dexterity. He is open and generous, but never inappropriate. I suspect this is part of what makes him such an appealing performer. When we were shooting the movie we did together, _Woman in Gold_, Ryan was about to start his now legendary journey toward becoming _Deadpool_. That movie’s incredible success was so deserved, and it was brought about by Ryan’s singular commitment, energy and imagination. I loved _Deadpool_. But I also miss spending time with the actor who played him—his warm, intelligent, inquisitive brown eyes, his readiness to laugh … sigh. P.S. The name is real, like everything else about Ryan. _Mirren is an Oscar-winning actor_ Ryan Reynolds by Helen Mirren: TIME 100 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736221/ryan-reynolds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736221/ryan-reynolds/"},"headline":"Ryan Reynolds","datePublished":"2017-04-20T04:42:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:21:44.400Z","description":"Ryan Reynolds is on the TIME 100 2017 list. Helen Mirren wrote about the actor.","url":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736221/ryan-reynolds/","keywords":["TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73fdcfc36a72b2f0/6988c33a86f68e8d096e44ab/time-100-2017-ryan-reynolds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73fdcfc36a72b2f0/6988c33a86f68e8d096e44ab/time-100-2017-ryan-reynolds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2017-time-100/4736221/ryan-reynolds/","name":"Ryan Reynolds"}}]}] ```