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Ryan Gosling
Mini Biography
Ryan Gosling was born on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, to Thomas and Donna Gosling, and was the second of their two children. The Gosling family, who are Mormon, moved to Cornwall, Ontario, where Ryan grew up and was home-schooled by his mother. Ryan attended Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational High School in Cornwall, where he excelled in Drama and Fine Arts. The family then relocated to Burlington, Ontario, where Ryan attended Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario.
Ryan first performed as a singer at talent contests with his older sister Mandi. He attended an open audition in Montreal for the TV series "The Mickey Mouse Club" ("MMC" (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 Mormon 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 the 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.
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Evans lost Fracture role to Gosling -
21 April 2012
-Captain America star Chris Evans missed out on a role opposite his acting hero Sir Anthony Hopkins in Fracture because Ryan Gosling wanted the part.-Evans tells Playboy magazine he thought the role in the 2007 movie was his until he realised he was up against Gosling
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Gosling, Close and Fassbender triumph at IFTAs -
12 February 2012
-Ryan Gosling, Glenn Close and Michael Fassbender were among the big winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTA) in Dublin on Saturday night (11Feb12).-The Ides of March star saw off competition Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gary Oldman to take home th
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Gosling impresses trainer as he prepares for fight film -
2 February 2012
-Movie hunk Ryan Gosling's martial arts trainer has given the actor top marks for dedication as he trains for a new boxing movie.-Muay Thai master Kiu Puk tells Life & Style magazine the Drive star will wow film fans with his physique when he appears in Only God Forgi
Ryan Gosling - what members say
review by from the north will rise again
A great intelligent film 21 May 2004
review by patty82 from
Enjoyable film 6 November 2011
review by from Totteridge, London
One For The Notebook 3 February 2005
Ryan Gosling - filmography
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his perfect life quickly unravels. Worse, ..read more »
 
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from 10,540 members
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The Ides of March
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei
Director: George Clooney
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During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
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The Ides Of March - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Marisa Tomei
Director: George Clooney
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Watch now: £3.49
George Clooney goes behind the camera for the fourth time to direct THE IDES OF MARCH, an adaptation of Beau Willimon's play FARRAGUT NORTH. The movie stars Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers, an idealistic deputy campaign manager for Governor Mike Morris (Clooney), who is in a major political battle ..read more »
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from 4,294 members
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Crazy, Stupid, Love - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
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Watch now: £3.49
At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his perfect life quickly unravels. Worse, ..read more »
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from 3,456 members
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All Good Things
(2010)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Director: Andrew Jarecki
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"All Good Things" is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank ..read more »
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from 70 members
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Blue Valentine - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka
Director: Derek Cianfrance
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A complex portrait of a contemporary American marriage, "Blue Valentine" tells the story of David and Cindy, a couple who have been together for several years but who are at an impasse in their relationship. While Cindy has blossomed into a woman with opportunities and options, David is still the ..read more »
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from 4,095 members
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Blue Valentine
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka
Director: Derek Cianfrance
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A relationship is charted from its promising beginning to its sad collapse in this independent drama from Derek Cianfrance. Dean (Ryan Gosling THE NOTEBOOK) meets Cindy (Michelle Williams BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) when they're in their late teens; he's working for a moving company, she's a college ..read more »
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from 18,059 members
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Lars and the Real Girl
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Director: Craig Gillespie
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As the title character, Ryan Gosling is a strange but likeable young man who manages to keep down a job but keeps mostly to himself. He only leaves the garage where he lives when his older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and loving sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer) drag him to their house next door ..read more »
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from 18,454 members
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Fracture - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
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from 1,036 member
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Fracture
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law ..read more »
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Half Nelson
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Shareeka Epps, Tina Holmes, Anthony Mackie
Director: Ryan Fleck
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High school teacher Dan (Ryan Gosling) and quiet teenager Drey (Shareeka Epps) are two lonely souls who wander the planet looking to attach some semblance of meaning to their chaotic lives. Dan teaches Drey in a dilapidated school in Brooklyn, New York. Their relationship is unremarkable until Drey ..read more »
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from 18,447 members
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Stay
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Janeane Garofalo, Ewan McGregor
Director: Marc Forster
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Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a young psychiatrist who is filling in for a colleague on leave. Among his new patients is Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a young art student who hears voices and is seriously contemplating suicide. This resonates strongly with Sam, who rescued his painter girlfriend, ..read more »
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from 14,193 members
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The Notebook - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
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from 2,099 members
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The Notebook
(2004)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
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from 31,610 members
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Murder by Numbers
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Michael Pitt, Ryan Gosling
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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When the dead body of a woman is found in the woods near the river, feisty homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) and her new partner, Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin) are assigned to the case. That's the premise for MURDER BY NUMBERS, a psychological thriller directed by Barbet Schroeder (..read more »
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from 8,890 members
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Drive to Dream
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea Duvall
Director: Alex Smith
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Drive to Dream tells the story of high school senior Roy (Gosling) from a small Montana town where there isn't much to do except drink and play football. After being cut from the school football team Roy falls for local barmaid Skyla (Duvall) and starts playing in an unsanctioned six-man football ..read more »
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from 9 members
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The Believer
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell
Director: Henry Bean
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Raised Jewish, Danny (Ryan Gosling) now runs with an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Queens. Attending a meeting held by prominent self-proclaimed fascist Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), Danny is noticed when he proposes killing Jews as a solution to society's problems. Danny's words create excitement not ..read more »
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...An intelligent film with a superb performance from Ryan Gosling. The only thing that doesn't work for me is the WWII flashbacks, they look too clean. The DVD extra worth wa...
