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Full Name:	Ryan Gosling
Birth Name:	Ryan Thomas Gosling
Famous As:	Actor
Date of Birth:	November 12, 1980
Place of Birth:	Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Height:	6' 1
Nationality:	Canadian

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Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling, 2005
Born	Ryan Thomas Gosling November 12, 1980 (1980-11-12) (age 28) London, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor, producer, musician
Years active	1995–present
Domestic partner(s)	Rachel McAdams (2004-2008)

Ryan Thomas "Baby Goose" Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in The Notebook, Half Nelson and Lars and the Real Girl.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Ryan Gosling was born in and raised in London, Ontario, Canada the son of Donna, a secretary, and Thomas Gosling, a paper mill worker.¹ His parents, who were Mormons,² divorced when he was young.³ He had difficulty in school and often engaged in verbal and physical fights with fellow students. On an appearance on the late night Canadian talk show Open Mike with Mike Bullard, Gosling told of how he was bullied in elementary school (he attended East Front Public School in Cornwall). His mother withdrew him from school and taught him at home when he was 10.⁴ While Gosling's mother was Mormon, he was not raised in a strictly devout household and never really identified with Mormonism.⁵ After returning to the public system, he went to Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School. The family then relocated to Burlington, Ontario, where Ryan attended Lester B. Pearson High School (Burlington). Gosling dropped out at age seventeen.⁶

When Gosling first moved to Los Angeles in 1997, he was given a place to stay at the West Hollywood apartment of Director Ron Oliver (Goosebumps and Breaker High)

Career

Gosling has had no formal training as an actor.⁷ His first acting experience was in the 1990s revival of The Mickey Mouse Club, for which he auditioned on a whim at the age of thirteen. As a result, he appeared in the show alongside Britney Spears, Keri Russell, Nikki DeLoach, Tony Lucca, Lindsey Alley, Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake in the show's sixth and seventh seasons.⁶ Gosling said he was such a bad influence on the future popstrels that their mothers complained to the studio. "I was just telling them what I'd heard about sex," he says. "You know, the positions and stuff."⁸Later he appeared in other television series including Flash Forward, Young Hercules, and Ron Oliver's Goosebumps and Breaker High. 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.⁹ This success led to future films including Remember the Titans, The Slaughter Rule, and Murder by Numbers. Because of his turn as the romantic lead in the 2004 film The Notebook, Gosling was named one of People magazine's Fifty Hottest Bachelors and the Show West Male Star of Tomorrow.

In preparation for his role as Dan Dunne, a drug-addicted, junior high school history teacher in the 2006 film Half Nelson, Gosling moved to Brooklyn, shadowed a middle school teacher, and studied the Civil Rights Movement (a subject with which his character is fascinated).⁶ In March 2007, Gosling won the Best Actor category at the Spirit Awards (formerly known as the Independent Spirit Awards) for his role in the movie. 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.¹⁰

Gosling starred in the film Fracture alongside Anthony Hopkins. He was to begin filming for The Lovely Bones in October 2007, but was replaced by Mark Wahlberg.¹¹¹² It was subsequently reported that director Peter Jackson fired him because he was "too demanding."¹³ A few days later, however, Gosling denied these claims, explaining that his young age was behind the decision to replace him in the film. He said, "The age of the character versus my real age was always a concern of mine. Peter and I tried to make it work and ultimately it just didn't. I think the film is much better off with Mark Wahlberg in that role. Peter Jackson is an incredible filmmaker and I'm here to tell you that he has things up his sleeve that are going to blow people's minds. I'm going to be the first person in line to buy tickets."¹⁴ In 2007, Gosling was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.¹⁵¹⁶

Gosling made a surprise cameo appearance onstage at the Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood in the serialized play Darque Magick from writer/director Jenelle Riley. For months, the lead character in Darque Magick had been making references to his obsession with Gosling, finally culminating in the actor appearing in a videotaped plea for the character to return his dog.¹⁷

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. ¹⁸ 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.”¹⁹

On April 4, 2009 Gosling's band Dead Man's Bones released a music video for their song "Name In Stone" on myspace and youtube.

He is currently filming Blue Valentine with Michelle Williams.

Personal life

Gosling divides his time between Toronto, Canada and Los Angeles, USA.³ Gosling also has several homemade tattoos.³ He has a dog named George whom he rescued from a kennel in Los Angeles. He is a partner in Beverly Hills restaurant, "Tagine," which specializes in Moroccan cuisine.

He has been in two relationships with co-stars - first with actress Sandra Bullock in Murder by Numbers and then with his The Notebook co-star, fellow Londonite Rachel McAdams, but Gosling announced their breakup in the November 2007 issue of GQ.²⁰ The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes had previously said that he was surprised to see the two together, as they argued a lot on the set of The Notebook. ²¹ In 2008, Gosling and McAdams were seen embracing each other at a restaurant near McAdams' Toronto home but called it quits soon after.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993 - 1995	The Mickey Mouse Club	Himself
1995	Goosebumps	Greg Banks	"Say Cheese and Die!"
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Jamie	"The Tale of Station 109.1"
1996	Ready or Not	Matt Kalinsky	"I Do, I Don't"
	Flash Forward	Scott Stuckey	"Skate Bait"
	Frankenstein and Me	Kenny
1997	Breaker High	Sean Hanlon
1998	Young Hercules	Hercules
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 Newcomer 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 Newcomer also for The Believer
	The Slaughter Rule	Roy Chutney
2003	The United States of Leland	Leland P. Fitzgerald
2004	The Notebook	Noah Calhoun
2005	Stay	Henry Letham
2006	Half Nelson	Dan Dunne	Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male Las Palmas Film Festival Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actor Stockholm International Film Festival Award for Best Actor 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
2007	Fracture	Willy Beachum
	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 — 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
2009	All Good Things	David Marks	in post-production
	Blue Valentine	Unnamed Leading Role	filming

References

External links

• Ryan Gosling at the Internet Movie Database
• Ryan Gosling Web
• Ryan Gosling Online
• Ryan Gosling at TV.com
• Ryan Gosling at Yahoo! Movies
• Dead Man's Bones at MySpace (Ryan Gosling's band)
• Ryan Gosling at People.com
• Ryan Gosling comprehensive profile
• Half Nelson Interview
• Guy Dixon and Gayle Macdonald. "Whoa Canada, Oscar gives nod to the north", The Globe and Mail, 24 January 2007. Retrieved 24 January 2007.
• Nashawaty, Chris. "The Mouseketeer that roared", Entertainment Weekly, May 5, 2002, retrieved October 27, 2006.