Ryan Reynolds has worked his way through the Hollywood ranks to become one of the most versatile, as well as popular, actors that currently grace the big screen.
And while he may be returning to the big budget blockbuster next year with Green Lantern he takes on a much smaller project this week with Buried.
Shot in just three weeks the movie, in which Reynolds is trapped in a coffin for most of it, sees him team up with filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés.
So to celebrate the release of the movie we took a look at some of the role that Reynolds is best known for.
- Van Wilder: Party Liaison
Reynolds teamed up with Tara Reed, Tim Matheson and Kal Penn for this laugh out loud comedy way back in 2002, it remains an early for which he is remembered.
Van Wilder might be starting his seventh year at Coolidge College, but graduation is the furthest thing from his mind.
Armed with a personal assistant and a coterie of admirers, Van has reached the status of living legend on campus, throwing bashes that make geeks popular, raising money for charity and generally "inspiring the uninspired."
But when Van's father refuses to pay any more of his son's tuition bills, Van turns party planning into a business in order to continue living in undergraduate bliss.
Now I accept that this movie would never win an Oscar but it helped Reynolds make a name for himself.
- Blade Trinity
In 2006 he took on the role of Hannibal King as he took on his first blockbusterish movie alongside Wesley Snipes and Jessica Biel.
Deep in a remote desert, vampire leaders are resurrecting Dracula, the horrific creature who spawned their race. Now known as Drake, this awesome vampire has unique powers that allow him to exist in daylight.
To make things even more difficult for Blade, the vampiric leadership launches a smear campaign against him, targeting him as a murderous monster and sending the FBI after him. After Blade and his mentor, Whistler, have an explosive showdown with FBI agent Cumberland and his men, it's evident that the Daywalker will need some assistance.
Blade reluctantly teams up with the Nightstalkers, a group of human vampire hunters led by Whistler's beautiful daughter, Abigail, and the wisecracking Hannibal King.
While their blind scientist Sommerfield works on creating a final solution for the vampire problem, the Nightstalkers launch a relentless series of battles against Dracula's gang of the undead, led by the powerful vampire Danica Talos and her fanged acolytes Asher and Grimwood.
Ultimately, Blade finds himself taking on the greatest vampire of all time, as his own fate and that of humanity hang in the balance.
Now the film wasn't met overly well by the critics but Blade Trinity is a fast paced ride with Reynolds cracking jokes at every turn.
- The Proposal
His partnership with Sandra Bullock last year was a movie match made in heaven as The Proposal was the best comedy to hit the big screen in 2009.
When high-flying publishing executive Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is told she faces deportation to her native Canada, she confronts the problem in her own formidable style by forcing her young assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her.
Promising an ambitious Andrew a lucrative promotion in exchange for her hand in marriage, high drama and hilarious antics quickly ensue as the incompatible couple fall under the suspicion of immigration.
They are soon in a race against time to convince both the authorities, and themselves, that they are genuinely in love.
- Adventureland
Indie movie Adventureland saw Ryan Reynolds was a movie that you wouldn't have expected from the actor coming off the back the success of The Proposal.
But the movie, which also starred Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart and was directed by Greg Mottola, was met with critical acclaim and once again showed that Reynolds could turn his hand to any genre.
Adventureland was a comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centred around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
And the actor has plenty of projects in the pipe as he is set to star in Green Lantern as well as reprise the role of Deadpool in a spin off movie.
The Change Up and Most Wanted are in pre-production and he has also been linked to the movie R.I.P.D.
Buried is out now
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
Tagged in Ryan Reynolds