biography of Ryan Gosling

Ryan Thomas Gosling 

(/ˈɡɒslɪŋ/ GOSS-ling;  born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. His work includes both independent films and major studio features, and his accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two British Academy Film Awards.

Gosling began his acting career when he was 13 on Disney Channel's The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His breakthrough role was that of a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he gained stardom in the 2004 romantic drama The Notebook. He starred in the critically acclaimed independent dramas Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor; Lars and the Real Girl (2007); and Blue Valentine (2010).

In 2011, Gosling had three mainstream successes in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March, and the action thriller Drive. After making his directorial debut with Lost River (2014), he starred in the financial satire The Big Short (2015), the action comedy The Nice Guys (2016), and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter won him a Golden Globe and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In 2023, he played Ken in the fantasy comedy Barbie, which emerged as his highest-grossing release and earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones, released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in 2009. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. He is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children, and the Enough Project and has traveled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions. He has been involved in peace promotion efforts in Africa for over a decade. He is in a relationship with actress Eva Mendes, with whom he has two daughters.

Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on November 12, 1980, at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario; he is the son of Thomas Ray Gosling, a travelling salesman for a paper mill, and Donna, a secretary.  Both of his parents are of part French Canadian descent, along with some German, English, Scottish, and Irish He and his family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,  and Gosling has said that the religion influenced every aspect of their lives. Because of his father's work, they "moved around a lot"  and Gosling lived in both Cornwall, Ontario, and Burlington, Ontario. His parents divorced when he was 13, and he and his older sister Mandi lived with their mother, an experience Gosling has credited with programming him "to think like a girl". 

Gosling was educated at Gladstone Public School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and Lester B. Pearson High School. As a child, he watched Dick Tracy and was inspired to become an actor.  He "hated" being a child, was bullied in elementary school,  and had no friends until he was "14 or 15". In grade one, having been heavily influenced by the action film First Blood, he took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess. This incident led to a suspension. He was unable to read,  and was evaluated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but was not diagnosed with it and, contrary to false reports, never took medication.  His mother left her job and home-schooled him for a year.  He has said homeschooling gave him "a sense of autonomy that I've never really lost". Gosling performed in front of audiences from an early age, encouraged by his sister being a performer. He and his sister sang together at weddings; he performed with Elvis Perry, his uncle's Elvis Presley tribute act, and was involved with a local ballet company. Performing boosted his self-confidence as it was the only thing for which he received praise. He developed an idiosyncratic accent because, as a child, he thought having a Canadian accent did not sound "tough". He began to model his accent on that of Marlon Brando. Gosling dropped out of high school at age 17 to focus on his acting career.

MINI BIO : 

Born Ryan Thomas Gosling in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, Scottish, and Irish. The Gosling family moved to Cornwall, Ontario, where Ryan grew up and was home-schooled by his mother. He also attended Gladstone Public School and Cornwall Collegiate & Vocational School, where he excelled in Drama and Fine Arts. The family then relocated to Burlington, Ontario, where Ryan attended Lester B. Pearson High School.

Ryan first performed as a singer at talent contests with Mandi. He attended an open audition in Montreal for the TV series "The Mickey Mouse Club" (The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989)) in January 1993 and beat out 17,000 other aspiring actors for a a spot on the show. While appearing on "MMC" for two years, he lived with co-star Justin Timberlake's family.

Though he received no formal acting training, after "MMC," Gosling segued into an acting career, appearing on the TV series Young Hercules (1998) and Breaker High (1997), as well as the films The Slaughter Rule (2002), Murder by Numbers (2002), and Remember the Titans (2000). He first attracted serious critical attention with his performance as the Jewish neo-Nazi in the controversial film The Believer (2001), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. He was cast in the part by writer-director Henry Bean, who believed that Gosling's strict upbringing gave him the insight to understand the character Danny, whose obsessiveness with the Judaism he was born into turns to hatred. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Male Lead in 2002 for the role and won the Golden Aries award from the Russian Guild of Film Critics.

After appearing in the sleeper The Notebook (2004) in 2004, Gosling won the dubious honor of being named one of the 50 Hottest Bachelors by People Magazine. More significantly, he was named the Male Star of Tomorrow at the 2004 Show West convention of movie exhibitors.

Gosling reached a summit of his profession with his performance in Half Nelson (2006), which garnered him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. In a short time, he has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation. Throughout the subsequent decade, he has become all three of an internet fixation, a box office star, and a critical darling, having headlined Blue Valentine (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), Drive (2011), The Ides of March (2011), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), The Nice Guys (2016), and La La Land (2016). In 2017, he starred in the long-awaited science fiction sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), with Harrison Ford.

Gosling supports various social causes. He has worked with PETA to encourage KFC and McDonald's to use improved methods of chicken slaughter, and on a campaign encouraging dairy farmers to stop de-horning cows. 

In 2005, Gosling volunteered in Biloxi, Mississippi, in the clean-up effort following Hurricane Katrina. He is a supporter of Invisible Children, Inc., a group that raises awareness about the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa.  In 2005, he traveled to Darfur refugee camps in Chad. He was a speaker at Campus Progress' National Conference in 2008, where he discussed Darfur  As part of his work with the Enough Project, he visited Uganda in 2  and eastern Congo in 2010 

Among his many accolades, Gosling has received three Academy Award nominations, two British Academy Film Award nominations, one Golden Globe Award from six nominations, and six Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

In 2006, his role as a troubled history teacher in the drama film Half Nelson gained him nominations for an Academy Awar and Screen Actors Guild Award^[228] for Best Actor. He received nominations for an Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award  for La La Land (2016) and Barbie (2023) in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories respectively, winning a Golden Globe Award for the former. His performances in Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Blue Valentine (2010),  The Ides of March, and Crazy, Stupid, Love (both 2011); also earned him Golden Globe nominations.

TRIVIA : 

• Was taken out of elementary school as a child and taught at home by his mother because of constant abuse from other students.
• According to an interview in GQ, he was the only Mickey Mouse Club cast member that didn't live in the same complex as all the other cast members and their families. He and his family lived in a nearby trailer park and he was the family's only source of income.
• Gained 60 lbs to play Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones (2009) by eating melted ice cream. Ultimately he was fired due to creative differences which left him, in his words, "fat and unemployed".
• He played all his filmed piano-playing scenes in La La Land, learning to play the instrument in the months before shooting.
• Unlike many successful actors near his age, he has no entourage and few close friends. He admits to often preferring solitude while not working, attributing it to his autonomous latter childhood.
• Built the kitchen table featured in The Notebook (2004) in preparation for his role as Noah.
• A series of videos, entitled "Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal", which feature clips from various Gosling films with a spoonful of cereal superimposed over the footage, went viral in 2013, receiving millions of views on Vine and YouTube. When the creator of the videos, Ryan McHenry, passed away from osteosarcoma in May 2015, Gosling posted his own video on Vine, in which he can be seen eating a bowl of cereal in tribute to McHenry. He also offered his public condolences to McHenry's family.
• His favorite actor is Gary Oldman.
• Was in a relationship with Rachel McAdams twice, having met on the set of The Notebook (2004). They were originally together from June 2005 to July 2007 before reconciling in August 2008, only to separate a second time in November 2008.
• He is in a relationship with Eva Mendes, whom he met on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) in July 2011. They have two daughters.
• Is an accomplished jazz guitarist and a fan of Chet Baker; started a band with his friend Zach Shields called Dead Man's Bones.
• Can speak some basic, conversational Spanish. He began learning in 2011 after starting to date longtime friend and costar Eva Mendes. He said in 2012 he was attempting to read Zoé Valdés' Café Nostalgia in Spanish, and his two daughters with Mendes are being raised bilingual.
• Born in the same hospital as his The Notebook (2004) co-star Rachel McAdams -- St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario -- though he's younger.
• Has 2 daughters: Esmeralda Amada Gosling (b. September 12, 2014) & Amada Lee Gosling (b. April 29, 2016) with girlfriend, Eva Mendes.
• Was considered to play Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) before Ben Affleck was cast.
• Was in a relationship with Sandra Bullock, having met on the set of Murder by Numbers (2002) (May 2002-July 2003).
• Beat out 17,000 people for a place in The All New Mickey Mouse Club (1989) in January 1993.
• Traveled to Chad in 2005 to make a documentary on the Darfur refugees living there.
• Favorite movie is East of Eden (1955)
• Was the first Canadian-born performer in over 60 years to be nominated for the best actor Oscar in Half Nelson (2006). The last was Walter Pidgeon for Madame Curie (1943).
• With two of his friends, he has opened a Moroccan restaurant called Tagine in Beverly Hills, California.
• In school, his nickname was Trouble.
• Took his mother and his sister to the Oscars in 2007.
• He moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 16.
• He is trained in and regularly practices Muay Thai.
• New York City: Announces that he plans to take an unspecified "break" from acting because he feels as if he has "lost perspective on what I'm doing."
• He first saw Blue Velvet (1986) when he was 14 years old. This movie left a strong impression on him.
• Ryan drives the same color and year model 2011 Chevy Impala in both Drive (2011) and The Ides of March (2011).
• Was originally cast as Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones (2009), but after dropping out of the project a day before shooting began, Mark Wahlberg was cast instead.
• Purchased the Jeep Cherokee driven by Ben Chaplin in Murder by Numbers (2002) from the set of the movie.
• Auditioned for the role of Frankie Ballenbacher in Alpha Dog (2006) but lost to Justin Timberlake.
• Has released a song titled "Put Me in the Car", which can be found on his website.
• Lives in the popular Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. Other Silver Lake locals include Beck, Bo Barrett, Christina Ricci, Rachel McAdams, and Jason Lee.
• He is of roughly half French-Canadian ancestry (from both of his parents combined), along with English, Scottish, Irish, and about 1/32 German. The Gosling surname originates in England, where Ryan's great-great-grandfather, George Edward Gosling, was born in Paddington. Also, one of Ryan's five times paternal great-grandfather, James-Jacques Robinson/Robertson, who was from the United States, was African-American, and married into the French-Canadian community.
• Auditioned for the role of Sam Flynn in Tron: Legacy (2010), but lost to Garrett Hedlund.
• Appeared in two films with Michelle Williams: The United States of Leland (2003) and Blue Valentine (2010). They lived together for four weeks, while filming "Blue Valentine", in a house in Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
• Is the first person born in the 1980s to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (he has been nominated in the category twice). The next four were Jesse Eisenberg (born in 1983), Eddie Redmayne (one win, one nomination) (born in 1982), Andrew Garfield (born in 1983), and Daniel Kaluuya (born in 1989).
• Touring the U.S. and Canada with his band, Dead Man's Bones, in support of their debut album.
• He and Benicio Del Toro are making tentative plans to visit the jungle in Bolivia, to learn a few survival skills first-hand for Che: Part Two (2008) (aka "Che").
• Was mentioned in two movies in 2014: Maps to the Stars (2014) and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014).
• By fans in public, he often gets confused for fellow Canadian actor named Ryan, Ryan Reynolds.
• His characters often suffer a broken nose, as seen in Blue Valentine (2010), Only God Forgives (2013), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
• He is the first person born in the 1980s (and thus could be considered the first millennial) to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Half Nelson (2006); Keisha Castle-Hughes is the first millennial nominated for the Best Actress Oscar (for Whale Rider (2002), in the ceremony for 2003). Eddie Redmayne and Natalie Portman are the first persons born in the 1980s to have won in those two respective categories.
• He is the third male born in 1980 or after to have received more than one Academy Award nomination for acting (for Half Nelson (2006), La La Land (2016), and Barbie (2023)). The first two are Jonah Hill (for Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)) and Eddie Redmayne (for The Theory of Everything (2014), which he won, and The Danish Girl (2015)).
• Has an older sister named Mandi Gosling.
• Has a doberman named Lucho.
• He has appeared in three films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Big Short (2015), La La Land (2016) and Barbie (2023).
• Keeps in touch with his Breaker High (1997) co-star Scott Vickaryous.
• In 1992 he was the only boy with a group of girl dancers in a tv talent show.
• Has starred in four films specifically set in Los Angeles (Drive, Gangster Squad, The Nice Guys, and La La Land). Additionally, he has starred in seven films set in New York (The Believer, Stay, Half Nelson, Blue Valentine, All Good Things, Place Beyond the Pines, and The Big Short).
• Was ranked #23 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actors list. (2008).
• One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
• Member of the same Los Angeles gym as Jason Sarayba, Bradley Cooper, Jodie Foster, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Ashley Tisdale.
• His nickname is 'RY'.

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