Ryan Gosling
Birthday: 1980-11-12 | Place of Birth: London, Ontario, CanadaRyan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. He came to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's The 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 first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition in 2004 with a leading role in the commercially successful romance The Notebook. For playing a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006), Gosling was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the seventh-youngest nominee at that time. He next played a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl (2007). After a brief hiatus, he starred in the marital drama Blue Valentine (2010). Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March, and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He also starred in the acclaimed financial satire The Big Short (2015) and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Six
as Self - Actor (K) (archive footage)
as Blue Penguin (voice)
as Neil Armstrong
as 'K'
as BV
as Holland March
as Sebastian
as Jared Vennett
as Julian
as Luke Glanton
as Self
as Sgt. Jerry Wooters
as Self
as Driver
as Jacob
as Stephen Meyers
as David Marks
as Dean
as Narration (voice)
as Lars Lindstrom
as William Beachum
as Dan Dunne
as Henry Letham
as Leland P. Fitzgerald
as Noah Calhoun
as Danny Balint
as Richard Haywood
as Roy Chutney
