Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his roles in The Notebook and The Believer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and won Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male and a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role in Half Nelson. He was nominated for another Sc...
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Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his roles in The Notebook and The Believer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and won Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Male and a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role in Half Nelson. He was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Lars and the Real Girl.
Ryan Gosling was born in London, Ontario, Canada, and raised in Cornwall, Ontario, the son of Donna, a secretary, and Thomas Gosling, a paper mill worker. His parents, divorced when he was young. Gosling dropped out of high school at age seventeen(17).
When Gosling first moved to Los Angeles in 1997, he was given a place to stay at the West Hollywood apartment of Director Ron Oliver (Goosebumps and Breaker High)
Gosling was a cast...
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