Background
Reynor was born in Longmont, Colorado and lived in Boulder with his mother, Tara, a native of Ireland. He went to primary school in the local village and spent his formative years in the rural countryside with his mother and maternal grandparents, Pat and Damien Reynor.
Career
Reynor moved with her to Valleymount, County Wicklow, Ireland, when he was two years old. His interest in acting began when he played an altar boy on the set of Country, directed by Kevin Liddy, in 1999. In early 2010, he was cast as Robbie, aka "the boy next door", in Kirsten Sheridan"s live format, unscripted Dollhouse, which premiered at Berlinale 2012.
He depicted Richard Karlsen in Lenny Abrahamson"s feature What Richard Did, which screened at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
The film portrays the fall of a high school rugby star and golden boy whose world unravels after his involvement in an act of careless violence. Reynor earned the Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) award for best actor in 2013 for his performance, which paved the way for his booking as a smiling Barista in the DreamWorks comedy-drama Delivery Manitoba opposite Vince Vaughn.
In January 2013, Reynor was cast as Shane, an Irish race car driver, in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth episode of the Transformers series. The film was released in June 2014 and co-starred Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz.
He, Wahlberg and Peltz are contracted for three films, beginning a new Transformers trilogy.
He will return for Transformers 5 (2017). The feature shattered worldwide box office records, making just over $1.1 billion and becoming the highest grossing movie in Chinese history. Days after wrapping the T4 global press tour, Reynor travelled to London to shoot Andy Serkis" Warner Brothers feature, The Jungle Book, alongside Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
The feature uses cutting-edge facial recognition technology that has been specifically invented for the project
Also that year, Reynor starred in upcoming writer/director Gerard Barrett"s film Glassland with Toni Collette and Will Poulter, in which he plays a young taxi driver who struggles to instill a sense of structure in his life while his mother suffers from severe alcoholism. After Glassland, Reynor shot Julian Jarrold"s romantic comedy, A Royal Night Out.
His role opposite Sarah Gadon was the character British Army airman Jack, the young Princess Elizabeth"s fictional romantic interest during the V.E. Day celebrations in 1945. Reynor starred with Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard and David Thewlis as Malcolm Canmore, the rightful heir to the throne, in The Weinstein Company"s feature film Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, which earned an unprecedented ten-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and premiered in Edinburgh in September 2015.
Following on from the Scottish Film, Reynor next completed shooting John Carney"s project Sing Street, set in 1980s Dublin.
lieutenant premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.