Ryan Gosling
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Biography
Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award.
Born and raised in Canada, he rose 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 and stardom for the 2004 romance film The Notebook. This was followed by starring roles in a string of critically acclaimed independent dramas including Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He then 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
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
Goosebumps
Golden Globe Awards
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Thor: Love and Thunder
Remember the Titans
Superman
The Big Short
The Nice Guys
Gangster Squad
Stay
Fracture
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Barbie
All Good Things
La La Land
The Place Beyond the Pines
Blue Valentine
The Gray Man
The Ides of March
First Man
Song to Song
The Notebook
The Fall Guy
The Brave and the Bold
Untitled 'The Gray Man' Sequel
Blade Runner 2049
Lars and the Real Girl
Drive
Only God Forgives
Production Credits
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