And while the Deadpool star has become a widely recognized actor, he's also become closely associated with his two brands - Aviation Gin and Mint Mobile. He bought stakes in the companies in 2018 and 2019, respectively, and has become their brand ambassador, delivering jokes and his signature quirkiness in commercials.

The Deadpool star owns a reported 25 per cent of Mint Mobile.

Reynolds, whose acting career started in the 1990s and who is more recently known for his role as Wade Wilson in the “Deadpool” films, purchased an ownership stake in Mint Mobile in 2019, according to Variety.

Mad Money host Jim Cramer talks to Mint Mobile's Ryan Reynolds and T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert about the latter's acquisition of Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile, two value-oriented brands, for up to $1.35 billion in cash and stock.

Mint is a typical prepaid carrier in that the service is decent for the price, but will never be as fast as say, Verizon. Mint Mobile also makes it really easy to get free wireless for an entire year with their easily attainable referral program.

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Mint offers some of the country's lowest priced mobile plans, starting at $15 a month for 4 gigabytes of wireless data. The companies didn't disclose Mint's subscriber count. Its annual subscriber growth over the past four years has been 50%, and revenue growth has been 70% or more a year, Glickman said.

Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile taken over by T-Mobile in $1.35B deal T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert said the telecom giant would use its size and resources to "supercharge" Mint, which is best known for ads starring the actor who is part owner of the smaller company.

$350 million Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds has more than doubled his net worth to $350 million after last week's sale of Mint Mobile. The Canadian sold his stake in the prepaid budget wireless provider to telecoms operator T-Mobile US as part of a larger cash-and-stock deal.

Inception of Mint Mobile “I have a lot of employees whose phone bills I pay, so I decided to try it out and wound up saving money,” Reynolds told Fortune in 2021. Once he came on board, he said he was involved in every part of the business - even the “unsexy” ones that weren't related to marketing, like customer service.

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Can I use my Mint Mobile service overseas? You sure can, jet setter. The UpRoam add-on is available to all Mint subscribers allowing for talk, text and data use while roaming outside the U.S.