Ryan Mark (Ryan Reynolds) a.k.a. Prodigy was born to parents Dennis and Beverly Reynolds on 20 March 1985. He spent most of his youth living in the Kingston 8 area where he grew up with two brothers and two sisters. His eldest brother, Howard, was a secular entertainer called Snakeman and Ryan was determined to follow in his footsteps. In 1999 while attending Calabar High School, in Kingston Jamaica, Ryan Mark and his friends visited a church crusade with the intention of checking out girls.