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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling
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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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Ryan Gosling - news / articles


  • Ryan Gosling explains The Lovely Bones departure - 30 October 2007
    Half Nelson star Ryan Gosling has spoken out amid reports he was fired from the set of Peter Jackson's new movie The Lovely Bones.-Gosling, who was to star as the father of a murdered girl who watches from heaven as her family cope with their loss, told Parade.com tha

Ryan Gosling - what members say


  • The Believer
  • The Believer review by from the north will rise again
    Rated - 5 stars A great intelligent film 21 May 2004
    ...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...  
  • The Notebook
  • The Notebook review by from Totteridge, London
    Rated - 4 stars One For The Notebook 3 February 2005
    ...easily be identified - the lead actors. While the story line is a familiar one, Ryan Gosling (so excellent in The Believer) and Rachel McAdams (ditto Mean Girls) inject so ...  
  • The United States Of Leland
  • The United States Of Leland review by Balham from London
    Rated - 4 stars Good movie... 5 May 2008
    ...Fine performance from a very young Ryan Gosling...def worth a watch! ...  

Ryan Gosling - filmography


  • Half Nelson
  • Half Nelson on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Shareeka Epps,  Tina Holmes,  Anthony Mackie
    Director: Ryan Fleck
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 14,449 members
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  • Stay
  • Stay on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Naomi Watts,  Ryan Gosling
    Director: Marc Forster
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 12,995 members
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  • The Notebook
  • The Notebook (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 28,502 members
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  • Notebook, The - BLU-RAY Version
  • Notebook, The - BLU-RAY Version (2004)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  Rachel McAdams,  James Garner
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 127 members
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Ryan Gosling facts

5 most recent films

Fracture - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Fracture - 3.5 stars
Lars and the Real Girl - 3.5 stars
Half Nelson - 3.0 stars
Stay - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Notebook, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Lars and the Real Girl - 3.5 stars
The Notebook - 3.5 stars
Fracture - 3.5 stars
Fracture - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

All Good Things - 4.5 stars
Stay - 2.5 stars
The United States Of Leland - 3.0 stars
Murder By Numbers - 3.0 stars
Half Nelson - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Billy Burke - 2 times - show films
David Strathairn - 2 times - show films
Embeth Davidtz - 2 times - show films
Anthony Hopkins - 2 times - show films
James Garner - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Gregory Hoblit - 2 times - show films
Nick Cassavetes - 2 times - show films
Marc Forster - 1 times - show films
Barbet Schroeder - 1 times - show films
Craig Gillespie - 1 times - show films

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