Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November
12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician.Having first gained notice at the age of
12 as a mouseketeer on the variety show The Mickey Mouse Club, Gosling has built a reputation for playing misfits in independent films: a fanatic Neo-Nazi in the The Believer
(2001), a drug-addicted junior high school teacher in Half Nelson
(2006), a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl
(2007) and a frazzled husband in Blue Valentine
(2010). His most commercially successful movie to date is
2004's romantic drama The Notebook. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Leading Actor (for Half Nelson) and two Golden Globe Awards (for Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine).
2011 saw him expand his horizons: he appeared in his first comedic role in Crazy, Stupid, Love. and his first action role in Drive. His next film, political drama The Ides of March, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August
31, 2011.Ryan first performed as a singer at talent contests with his older sister Mandi. He attended an open audition in Montreal for the TV series "The Mickey Mouse Club" ("The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (
1989)) in January
1993 and beat out
17,000 other aspiring actors for a a spot on the show. While appearing on "MMC" for two years, he lived with co-star Justin Timberlake's family.Though he received no formal acting training, after "MMC," Gosling segued into an acting career, appearing on the TV series "Young Hercules" (
1998) and "Breaker High"
(1997), as well as the films The Slaughter Rule
(2002), Murder by Numbers
(2002), and Remember the Titans
(2000). He first attracted serious critical attention with his performance as the Jewish neo-Nazi in the controversial film The Believer
(2001), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the
2001 Sundance Film Festival. He was cast in the part by writer-director Henry Bean, who believed that Gosling's strict upbringing gave him the insight to understand the character Danny, whose obsessiveness with the Judaism he was born into turns to hatred. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Male Lead in
2002 for the role and won the Golden Aries award from the Russian Guild of Film Critics.After appearing in the sleeper The Notebook (
2004) in
2004, Gosling won the dubious honor of being named one of the
50 Hottest Bachelors by People Magazine. More significantly, he was named the Male Star of Tomorrow at the
2004 Show West convention of movie exhibitors.Gosling reached the summit of his profession with his performance in Half Nelson (
2006), which garnered him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. In a short time, he has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation.
London: The Notebook star Ryan Gosling says that he no longer sets goals for himself as he is happy with the roles he is being offered.The
30-year-old actor has grown more comfortable with the roles he is offered as he has gotten older and has nothing else to achieve, reported Contactmusic."Do I set goals for myself? Not really. I think now that I'm
30 I'm more comfortable. Maybe it's because I'm playing characters that are older, so it is easier to find good material. But I also have more control, I think," said the Blue Valentine actor Gosling will be next seen in Drive and said that he loved preparing for the movie."I did everything on it except the transmission. The stunt training was the best time ever. You show up at an abandoned church parking lot and there's a new Camaro and a new Mustang sitting there. You get in your car and you drive it until it won't drive anymore, until it's smoking or on fire," Gosling said.
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