Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. Gosling began acting at age 12 on the American variety television show The Mickey Mouse Club. Following his feature film debut in Remember the Titans (2000), Gosling had his breakout role as a fanatic Neo-Nazi in the 2001 drama film The Believer, for which he received an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Male Lead.
In 2004, Gosling gained mainstream success for playing the male lead in the romantic drama The Notebook. Two years later, Gosling earned his first Academy and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as Best Leading Actor, for portraying a junior high school teacher in the independent film Half Nelson (2006). The following year he was again nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for his lead performance in Lars and the Real Girl (2007).
Aside from acting, Gosling formed the band Dead Man's Bones with his friend. They released their self-entitled debut album in October 2009.
Early life
Ryan Gosling was born in London, Ontario, and raised in Cornwall, Ontario, the son of Donna, a secretary, and Thomas Gosling, a paper mill worker. He was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and had said that the experience still shapes and affects his character. His parents divorced when he was young. Gosling was taken out of elementary school and homeschooled because of being harassed and picked on in elementary school.
Gosling dropped out of high school at age 17. He then moved to New Zealand, where he worked on the series Young Hercules for two years, with the company that created Xena, Warrior Princess.
Career
Gosling in 2005
Gosling was a cast member on the hit show The Mickey Mouse Club alongside fellow stars; Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, and Keri Russell. He was part of the last set of new Mouseketeers to be admitted into the show before it ended its run. He sang, danced, and acted on the show.
He starred in the Canadian television show Breaker High which aired on YTV in Canada and UPN in the United States from 1997 to 1998.
Gosling has had no formal training as an actor. His fame spread to the United States after he starred in the 2001 controversial drama The Believer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Gosling won the Best Actor category at the Spirit Awards (formerly known as the Independent Spirit Awards) for his role as a drug-addicted, junior high school history teacher in the 2006 film Half Nelson. For the same role, he was nominated for an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Broadcast Film Critics Association award as best actor.
On December 13, 2007, Gosling was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Lars and the Real Girl. A week later, he was subsequently nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He had also received a Broadcast Film Critics Association nomination and won a Satellite Award for this performance as well. In February 2008, he was presented with the inaugural Independent Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. In her introduction, presenter Jenelle Riley called him "The most consistent and compelling actor working today."
On December 25, 2008 Gosling's band Dead Man's Bones released a music video and free download for their song "In The Room Where You Sleep," and on April 4, 2009, the band released another music video for their song "Name In Stone" on MySpace and YouTube. The self-titled debut album from the band, featuring members of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music's children's choir, was released on October 6, 2009 through ANTI- records. Since then in 2010, they have released two other music videos for tracks; "Dead Hearts" and "Pa Pa Power" Gosling and Zach Shields also successfully toured around North America for fall/Halloween 2009 with a local choir and talent show in every city similarly to the LA group, Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir, which they recorded with on the album.
Derek Cianfrance's directorial debut was shot in 2009 with Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, taking the director 12 years to make. Blue Valentine was premiered at the 2010, Sundance Film Festival as one of 16 films selected from 1,058 submissions for the dramatic competition. Written by Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, the screenplay won the 2006 Chrysler Film Project contest, which came with $1 million of funding. After Cianfrance's world premiere at Sundance, in 2010 Blue Valentine was also screened at Cannes International Film Festival's Un Certain Regard and the film played to the press and public at the Toronto International Film Festival. Following those three festivals, the film was picked up to be showcased at the following film festivals; Telluride Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival,[ London Film Festival and the Canberra International Film Festival before its theatrical release in December 2010.
In 2010, Ryan Gosling signed on to narrate Phillip Montgomery’s REGENERATION, a new documentary that explores the widespread cynicism in today’s youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture’s apathetic view towards social and political causes. Gosling also produced the documentary along with Anonymous Content’s Matt DeRoss and Engine 7 Films’ Joel Goulder and Jeremy Goulder. Montgomery said,“It is an honor to work with one of the most talented and intelligent artists of our generation. As a socially conscious individual himself, Ryan brings an inspired freshness to the films core message of hope and action. There is truly no better voice to guide us through this film.”
Ryan Gosling will be co-staring in Crazy, Stupid, Love with Steve Carell, Kevin Bacon, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Analeigh Tipton and Josh Groban. The film is being distributed by Warner Brothers and is set for theatrical release on April 22, 2011.
Los Angeles, CA (September 27, 2010). Production began on the highly anticipated independent feature, “DRIVE”, with Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. Filming around Los Angeles, the action-packed thriller stars Academy Award nominees Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan and others who are award winning/nominated actors and producers. Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini adapted the script from the James Sallis’ novel of the same name...Producer Marc Platt adds, “Ryan possesses an innate talent that is yet to be fully tapped and Drive is the perfect marriage of material to actor—the script brings him into a whole new arena that’s really thrilling.
Personal life
Gosling divides his time between Toronto and Los Angeles.
He dated Rachel McAdams, whom he met during the filming of The Notebook, from 2004 to February 2007. The relationship was extremely popular in both the media and amongst fans, even being mentioned in the popular Saturday Night Live sketch "Lazy Sunday". He has stated that he has encountered many fans who took the news of their breakup as hard as he and McAdams did and would be forced to console them. Of the relationship, Gosling said the following to GQ Magazine in 2007: "I mean, God bless The Notebook... It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that." Of their actual breakup, Gosling has also remarked, "The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin' and we called it a draw."
He is a partner in the Beverly Hills restaurant Tagine, which specializes in Moroccan cuisine.
In 2008, Gosling endorsed Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Filmography
Gosling at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Year Film Role Notes
1996 Frankenstein and Me Kenny
1998 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy Tommy Made for TV
1999 The Unbelievables Josh
2000 Remember the Titans Alan Bosley
2001 The Believer Danny Balint Russian Guild of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Actor
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer also for Murder by Numbers
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male
2002 Murder by Numbers Richard Haywood Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer also for The Believer
The Slaughter Rule Roy Chutney
2003 The United States of Leland Leland P. Fitzgerald
2004 The Notebook Noah Calhoun MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (Shared with Rachel McAdams)
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Performance - Male
2005 Stay Henry Letham
2006 Half Nelson Dan Dunne Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male
Stockholm Film Festival Award for Best Actor
Las Palmas Film Festival Award for Best Actor
National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Male Performance
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
2007 Fracture Willy Beachum Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller
Lars and the Real Girl Lars Lindstrom Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated — Prism Award for Performance in a Feature Film
Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated — St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
2010 All Good Things David Marks forthcoming
Blue Valentine Dean Periera forthcoming
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love Jacob post-production
2011 Drive The Stuntman in production
Television
Year Show Role Episode(s) & Notes
1993–1995 Mickey Mouse Club Himself TV Series
1995 Are You Afraid of the Dark? Jamie Leary 5.02 "The Tale of Station 109.1"
1996 PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Adam 1.01 "Dream House/UFO Encounter"
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Kevin 4.09 "Dragon's Lair"
Road to Avonlea Bret McNulty 7.09 "From Away"
Goosebumps Greg Banks 1.15 "Say Cheese and Die"
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes Sean 1.01 "The Case of the Burning Building"
Flash Forward Scott Stuckey 1.11 "Double Bill" and 1.21 "Skate Bait"
Ready or Not Matt Kalinsky 4.05 "I Do, I Don't"
1997–1998 Breaker High Sean Hanlon TV Series
1998 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy Tommy TV Movie
1998–1999 Young Hercules Hercules TV Series
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Zylus 5.17 "The Academy"
1999 The Unbelievables Josh TV Movie
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