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Canadian actor Ryan Gosling established himself with misfit outsider roles in award-winning independent... (Learn more)

Top Projects: Young Hercules, Breaker High, The Notebook (View All)

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Ryan Gosling’s Milestones
Began performing career as a child, singing with older sister at local talent shows
Had regular role of Sean Hanlon on "Breaker High" (UPN)
Played title role in the Fox series "Young Hercules"
1991 Made early TV appearance on the Canadian variety series "Homegrown Cafe"
1993 - 1996 Was one of the Mouseketeers on the "Mickey Mouse Club" (Disney Channel); appeared alongside JC Chasez, Keri Russell, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera
1996 Had leading role in "Frankenstein and Me" (Disney Channel)
1996 Had role as a UFO abductee in an episode of "The PSI Factor"
1996 Portrayed an English orphan in an episode of "The Road to Avonlea"; received Gemini Award nomination
2000 Portrayed a football player dealing with team integration in the 1970s in "Remember the Titans"
2001 Garnered widespread praise for his starring turn as a Jewish neo-Nazi in "The Believer" (was scheduled to air on Showtime before being released theatrically in 2002)
2002 Cast opposite Sandra Bullock in the thriller "Murder by Numbers"
2003 Played a small-town high school football player in "The Slaughter Rule"
2004 Co-starred opposite fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams in the feature film "The Notebook," based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks
2004 Starred as Leland P. Fitzgerald in "The United States of Leland," about a young man's experience in a juvenile detention center
2005 Portrayed a suicidal client opposite Ewan McGregor, who makes bizarre predictions that begin to come true in Marc Forster's "Stay"
2006 Starred in "Half Nelson," a feature adaptation of helmer Ryan Fleck's Sundance-winning short film "Gowanus, Brooklyn"; earned SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Actor
2007 Co-starred in the dramatic thriller, "Fracture" as a hot-shot prosecutor opposite Anthony Hopkins
2007 Played a guy in love with a life-sized sex toy in the indie film, "Lars and the Real Girl"; earned Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

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Quick Facts

Also known as

AKA : Ryan Thomas Gosling

Born

November, 12 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada

Education

  • Gladstone Public School, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada:
  • Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada: Dropped out at the age of seventeen
  • Lester B Pearson High School, Burlington, Ontario, Canada:

Professions

actor, singer