Actor who made a name for himself with the movie 'The Notebook': Who is Ryan Gosling?

His full name is Ryan Thomas Gosling, he was born on November 12, 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada. His mother, Donna, was a secretary and his father, Thomas Ray Gosling, was a peddler. He has an older sister named Mandi. Due to his father's job, they had to change places a lot. His parents divorced when he was 13, and he and his older sister lived with his mother. Gosling and his family moved to Cornwall, Ontario, and attended the Gladstone Public School and Collegiate and Vocational School in Cornwall.

He watched "Dick Tracy" as a child and was inspired to become an actress. He was bullied in elementary school and had no friends until a certain age. He was suspended from school because of a mistake he made in his freshman year. He was illiterate and his mother quit his job and homeschooled him for a year. Encouraged by his sister being an actress, they performed together in front of the audience. Thanks to his performances, he received praise and increased his self-confidence. He developed a distinctive accent. He dropped out of Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington at the age of seventeen to focus on his acting career.

In 1993, twelve year old Gosling auditioned for a revival of Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club. Gosling was given a two-year contract and had to move to Orlando, Florida. Other cast members included Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. He became particularly close friends with Timberlake, and they lived together for six months in the show's second year. Timberlake's mother became Gosling's legal guardian after Gosling's mother returned to Canada for work. Gosling attracted attention with his successful performance in this series.

Then Gosling returned to Canada, where he asked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (1995), "Goosebumps" (1996) and "Breaker High" (1997–98). At eighteen he moved to New Zealand to play the title character in the Fox Kids adventure series "Young Hercules" (1998–1999).

At the age of 19, Gosling decided to seriously switch to acting. He was dropped by his agent and initially found it difficult to find work. He later got the lead role in 2001's "The Believer". The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and Gosling described it as "the film that gift-wrapped the career I have now." Gosling became known through this film, but the film was a commercial failure.

In 2002, Gosling starred in the psychological thriller "Murder by Numbers" with Sandra Bullock and Michael Pitt. The film had little commercial success. Then Gosling, respectively; He acted in The Slaughter Rule(2002) and The United States of Leland(2003).

Gosling starred with Canadian Rachel McAdams in the romantic drama film "The Notebook" (2004), directed by Nick Cassavetes and based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. Gosling and McAdams were romantically involved in 2005 but had a quarrelsome relationship on set. The film grossed moderately worldwide. Gosling won four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award for the movie. Entertainment Weekly said the movie included the Greatest Movie Kisses of All Time, while the Los Angeles Times included a scene from the movie in its list of 50 Classic Movie Kisses. "The Notebook" has been on many Most Romantic Movies lists.

In 2005, Gosling starred in the psychological thriller "Stay," in which he co-starred with Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. The film achieved a standard gross worldwide. Gosling wasn't impressed with the negative reaction to the movie. He later appeared as a middle school teacher in the 2006 movie "Half Nelson". With this film, he won the Best Actor Award at the Las Palmas Film Festival and the Best Actor Award at the Stockholm Film Festival.

Gosling starred in the 2007 movie "Lars and the Real Girl". He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Film for his performance. The film was a box office failure, failing to recoup its production budget. Gosling subsequently starred with Anthony Hopkins in the courtroom thriller "Fracture" (2007). In preparation for the role, he observed lawyers and courtroom proceedings. The movie was a big hit worldwide and the harmony of the leading actors was appreciated.

Afterwards, Gosling was off screens for three years and then appeared in five films in 2010 and 2011. The first began in 2010 when Derek Cianfrance appeared with Michelle Williams in the marriage drama "Blue Valentine", his directorial debut. The movie was mostly improvised. Gosling was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film. The film was a box office success, with a low budget, reaching a certain level worldwide.

Gosling's second feature film in 2010 was "All Good Things" with Kirsten Dunst, based on a true story. Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times praised Gosling's performance.

2011 was a year that broadened Gosling's horizons. His first comedy role was in the romantic comedy-drama movie "Crazy, Stupid, Love" with Steve Carell and Emma Stone. Gosling was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Feature, and the film was a box office success, grossing over $142 million worldwide. It also became Gosling's second most successful job in his career.

Gosling's first action role was in "Drive"(2011), based on a novel by James Sallis. The film was a box office success, grossing $70 million worldwide from a budget of $15 million. In 2011, Gosling starred with Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last feature film, the political drama "The Ides of March," in which he plays an ambitious press secretary. Gosling was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the film was a standard box office success.

In 2013's crime thriller "Gangster Squad," Gosling played Sergeant Jerry Wooters, an LAPD officer who tries to outsmart a mob boss. In "The Place Beyond the Pines," an intergenerational drama directed by Derek Cianfrance, Gosling played Luke, a motorcycle rider who robs banks to support his family. Filming was described by Gosling as "the best experience I've ever had in shooting a movie".

In early 2013, Gosling announced that he was taking a break from acting. Gosling's directorial debut "Lost River" competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and the film received largely negative reviews. In 2015, Gosling starred in the ensemble financial satire "The Big Short," which was nominated for Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards.

The following year, Gosling starred with Russell Crowe in the black comedy "The Nice Guys" and in Damien Chazelle's musical "La La Land." He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy Film and received his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film managed to become one of his most commercially successful films, earning a large amount of money for a normal budget.

In 2018, Gosling played astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon in 1969, in Chazelle's biopic "First Man," based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong. In 2022, he co-starred with Chris Evans in Netflix's spy-action thriller "The Gray Man."

Gosling will star alongside Margot Robbie in the live-action adaptation of Greta Gerwig's fashion doll series of the same name, "Barbie." Since 2017, he has co-produced a film adaptation of Jeff Lemire's 2012 comic The Underwater Welder.

In late May 2020, Gosling took on the role of Wolfman in Universal's reboot of "The Wolf Man" from 1941. The film will be directed by Derek Cianfrance and will be Gosling's third collaboration with him. In April 2022, it was announced that the project, now called "The Fall Guy", began production with Gosling shooting scenes on Sydney Harbor Bridge in the early morning hours.

Gosling signed on to appear in "The Actor", based on Donald E. Westlake's novel Memory, in February 2021. Gosling, who will also produce with Ken Kao, will star as Paul Cole, who must deal with his damaged memory as he struggles to rebuild his life after being left to die and hospitalized in 1950s Ohio.

Private life

Gosling previously lived in New York with his crossbred dog, George. He is the co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.

Gosling was in a relationship with Murder by Numbers co-star Sandra Bullock from 2002 to 2003. Later, he had a relationship with Rachel McAdams, his co-star in The Notebook, from 2005 to 2007. Gosling has been in a relationship with The Place Beyond the Pines co-star Eva Mendes since September 2011. The couple has two daughters, one born in 2014 and the other in 2016.

Gosling supports various social institutions, organizations and support events. He is the vocalist of the band Dead Man's Bones, which he founded with Zach Shields, whom he met in Toronto in 2005.