Ryan Gosling Biography

Film Actor, Actor (1980–)

Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor known for his starring roles in such
films as 'The Notebook,' 'Blue Valentine,' 'La La Land' and 'Blade
Runner 2049.'

Who Is Ryan Gosling?

Born in 1980 in Ontario, Canada, actor Ryan Gosling first found success by joining the cast
of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993. As an adult, he starred in the romantic hit The
Notebook(2004) and garnered award nominations for Half Nelson (2006) and Lars and the Real
Girl(2007). Gosling has also appeared in Blue Valentine (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The
Ides of March (2011) and The Big Short (2015), among other projects. He received Golden
Globe and Oscar nominations for his portrayal of a jazz pianist in the 2016 hit movie musicalLa
La Land, and the following year he starred in the popular sci-fi flick Blade Runner 2049.

'Rambo' to 'Mickey Mouse'

Born on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, Ryan Thomas Gosling grew up in a
working-class Mormon family in the city of Cornwall. One of Sylvester Stallone's action films
proved to be an early influence on the future thespian: "When I was in first grade I watched First
Blood, and I filled my Fisher-Price Houdini kit with steak knives and brought them to school and
started throwing them at kids in recess," Gosling later told Maclean's magazine. He was
suspended for this dangerous reenactment, but he continued to be inspired by the movies he saw.

Ryan Gosling caught his first big break in 1993, when he joined the cast of The Mickey Mouse
Club, a variety show for young people. He sang, danced and acted alongside such future stars
as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. "I went through puberty in a theme
park," Gosling explained to Esquire magazine, about the show's process of filming at
Walt Disney World in Florida. "I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures
every day."

After the show was canceled in 1995, Gosling went to work on other television series. He
appeared in the teen comedy Breaker High from 1997 to '98, before transitioning to a more
mythical role: At the age of 17, Gosling moved to Los Angeles to star as the title character in the
popular teen series Young Hercules.

Rising Film Star

For his film debut, Gosling had a supporting role in the sports drama Remember the
Titans(2000), starring Denzel Washington. His first major film breakthrough came in 2001's The
Believer. He played a Jewish neo-Nazi in this critically acclaimed film, which won the Grand
Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

However, it wasn't until 2004 and his starring turn in the romantic blockbuster The
Notebook, opposite Rachel McAdams, that mainstream audiences sat up and took notice. In
2006, Gosling received raves for his role as drug-addicted teacher Dan Dunne in Half Nelson.
The intense, moving performance earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination.

Always one to tackle diverse roles, Gosling played a young prosecutor in Fracture (2007),
opposite Anthony Hopkins. He then went on to star as a shy, delusional man who forms a sincere
attachment to a doll in the offbeat comedy Lars and the Real Girl (2007). For his performance,
Gosling earned a Golden Globe nomination.

'Blue Valentine' and 'Crazy, Stupid, Love'

As his career developed, Gosling emerged both as a serious actor with
impressive range and as one of Hollywood's most popular sex symbols. He
gave a strong performance alongside Michelle Williams in the 2010 indie
drama Blue Valentine, which followed the downward spiral of a couple.

The following year proved to be big for the actor. Gosling appeared in three
very different types of films, ranging from romantic comedy to political drama
to edgy thriller. In Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), he played a smooth ladies' man
who tries to help a man going through a divorce (Steve Carell), before falling
head-over-heels for a young woman played by Emma Stone. Moving on to a
more action-oriented role, he then starred in Drive, about a stuntman who
moonlights as a getaway driver. That autumn, Gosling co-starred with George
Clooneyin The Ides of March, playing a smart and savvy press secretary to a
politician.

Continuing to challenge himself and hone his craft, Gosling starred with Eva
Mendesand Bradley Cooper in the crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines,
which debuted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Re-teaming
with Stone, Gosling also played a lawman out to fight organized crime figures
like Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) in Gangster Squad. The project had originally
been set to debut in the fall of 2012, but after a gunman opened fire on a
crowd inside a Colorado movie theater, the film was delayed for revisions and
pushed back to January 2013.
'The Big Short' and 'La La Land'
After starring in the 2013 crime drama Only God Forgives, Gosling made his
directorial debut with 2014's Lost River. The film, which he also wrote and
produced, stars Christina Hendricks as a beleaguered single mom. The
following year saw the actor co-starring with Christian Bale, Carell and Brad
Pitt in The Big Short. Based on the nonfiction best-seller by Michael Lewis,
the film focuses on the housing market bubble that fueled the 2008 financial
collapse and a group of men who'd predicted the turmoil to come. The project
garnered multiple Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.

In 2016, Gosling teamed with Russell Crowe in the dark comedy The Nice Guys and also dove
into the musical comedy realm with La La Land, co-starring Emma Stone. La La Land proved to
be a massive hit, garnering a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations, including Best Actor for
Gosling, and winning six.

In 2017, after joining the ensemble cast for Terrence Malick's romantic drama Song to
Song, Gosling returned to more mainstream fare with Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the
1982 Harrison Ford vehicle. Gosling was next set to star as famed astronaut Neil
Armstrongin First Man, about the NASA mission to send a man to the moon in the 1960s.

Personal Life
Gosling has worked to promote several social causes, including AIDS research, poverty relief
and the humane treatment of animals. He likes to box and to make furniture—a skill he picked
up while making The Notebook. Gosling is also an accomplished jazz guitarist and singer.

Over the years, Gosling has been romantically linked to such co-stars as Sandra Bullock and
McAdams. Since 2011, he has been romantically linked to Place Beyond the Pines co-star
Mendes. In the summer of 2014, news broke that they were expecting their first child. Their
daughter, Esmeralda Amada Gosling, was born that September. In April 2016, Mendes gave
birth to the couple's second daughter, Amada Lee. In September 2016, US Weekly reported that
Gosling and Mendes were secretly married earlier that year.