Actor Ryan Thomas Gosling was born in Canada on November 12, 1980. Prominent in indie and major studio pictures across all genres, his films have made over 1.9 billion USD at the box office worldwide. Several honours have been bestowed upon him, such as a Golden Globe Award and nominations for two BAFTAs and three Academy Awards. Ken starred in the fantasy comedy Barbie in 2023, which became his highest-grossing film and nominated him for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Quick Facts
- Birth Name: Ryan Thomas Gosling
- Birth Date: November 12, 1980
- Birth Place: Ontario, Canada
- Gender: Male
- Career: Actor
- Most Known For: When Ryan Gosling, a Canadian actor, joined The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993, he began to achieve popularity. In his adult years, he has acted in several successful films, including the fantasy comedy Barbie, which became his biggest grossing movie, Half Nelson (2006), Blue Valentine (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and the romantic smash The Notebook (2004).
Ryan Gosling Biography: Early Life
Ryan Thomas Gosling, the son of secretary Donna and travelling salesman Thomas Ray Gosling of a paper mill, was born on November 12, 1980, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario. His parents are partially descended from German, English, Scottish, and Irish people as well as French Canadians. He belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as did his family. Gosling has said that living with his mother after his parents separated when he was 13 years old is what taught him “to think like a girl.”
Lester B. Pearson High School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School, and Gladstone Public School were the schools where Gosling received his education. One of the action movies starring Sylvester Stallone turned out to be a precursor of the future thespian. He claimed to have seen First Blood. When he was in first grade, he carried steak knives to school in his Fisher-Price Houdini kit and began hurling them at children during recess. Despite being punished for this risky reenactment, he never stopped finding inspiration in the movies he watched. At the age of 17, Gosling left high school to concentrate on his acting career.
Early Career in ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’, ‘Young Hercules’
When Gosling joined the cast of the youth variety show The Mickey Mouse Club in 1993, it was his big break. After being hired as a mouseketeer for two years, he relocated to Orlando, Florida. Because other kids were thought to be more gifted than him, he didn’t get much screen time. Alongside future stars like Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, and Britney Spears, he performed, sang, and danced.
Gosling told Esquire magazine, “I went through puberty in a theme park,” referring to the process of filming the performance at Walt Disney World in Florida. Even yet, he claims that the two years he spent working there were the best of his life. During the second year of the program, he lived with Timberlake for six months after they grew quite close. After Timberlake’s mother went to Canada for employment, she was appointed as Gosling’s legal guardian.
After the program was cancelled in 1995, Gosling went back to Canada, where he kept making appearances in family-friendly TV shows including Goosebumps (1996) and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995), in addition to playing Sean Hanlon in Breaker High (1997–1998). He relocated to New Zealand when he was eighteen years old to play the lead role in the Fox Kids adventure series Young Hercules (1998–1999). Later, he claimed that while he had originally loved working on the series, it had stopped being enjoyable for him because he had been overly invested in it.
Film Debut and Early Growth in Hollywood
In the 2000 sports movie Remember the Titans, starring Denzel Washington, Gosling made his screen debut in a supporting role. The Believer, released in 2001, was his first significant box office hit. In this highly regarded movie, he portrayed a Jewish neo-Nazi that took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Alongside Sandra Bullock and Michael Pitt, Gosling co-starred in the psychological thriller Murder by Numbers (2002), in which the two actors played two seniors in high school who thought they could pull out the ideal murder. Bullock portrayed the detective sent to look into the crime.
In The Slaughter Rule, starring David Morse, he made his second movie appearance of 2002. The film examines the connection between a high school football player and his disturbed coach in a remote Montana school. Gosling also played a teenager incarcerated for the 2003 murder of a crippled youngster in the film The United States of Leland. The fact that the character was “emotionally disconnected for the whole film” drew him to the job.
‘The Notebook’, ‘Blue Valentine’, ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ and ‘The Ides of March’
Unfortunately mainstream viewers didn’t pay attention to him until 2004 when he starred opposite Rachel McAdams in the romance hit The Notebook. Gosling won praise for his performance in Half Nelson (2006) as drug-addled instructor Dan Dunne. He was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for the powerful and poignant performance.
Consistently taking on a variety of roles, Gosling acted opposite Anthony Hopkins as a young prosecutor in the 2007 film Fracture. Later, he starred in the quirky comedy Lars and the Real Girl (2007) as a meek, naive man who develops a real bond with a doll. Gosling was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance.
As his career progressed, Gosling became known as one of Hollywood’s most well-liked sex icons in addition to being a serious actor with a wide range. He and Michelle Williams had a great performance together in the independent film Blue Valentine (2010), which traced the downfall of a love.
The actor had a successful year the following year. Gosling starred in three very different kinds of movies: edgy thrillers, political dramas, and romantic comedies. He portrayed a suave ladies’ guy in the 2011 film Crazy, Stupid, Love who first tries to support Steve Carell, a man going through a divorce, but ends up falling in love with Emma Stone, a young actress.
He later featured in Drive, a film about a stuntman who doubles as a getaway driver, which was more action-oriented. That autumn, Gosling co-starred in The Ides of March alongside George Clooney, as a shrewd and astute politician’s press secretary.
‘The Place Beyond the Pines’, ‘Gangster Squad’, and ‘Only God Forgives’
Gosling played alongside Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes in the murder drama The Place Beyond the Pines, which made its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, as he continued to push himself and improve as an actor. Reuniting with Stone, Gosling also portrayed a law enforcement officer in Gangster Squad, where he battled organized criminal figures including Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). After a shooter opened fire on a crowd inside a Colorado movie theatre, the film’s initial release date of autumn 2012 was moved back to January 2013 in order to allow for modifications.
Following his role as star of the murder drama Only God Forgives in 2013, Ryan Gosling took the director’s chair for the 2014 film Lost River. In addition to writing and producing the movie, Christina Hendricks plays a struggling single mother.
‘The Big Short’, ‘The Nice Guys’,’ Blade Runner 2049’ and ‘First Man’
The actor costarred in The Big Short the next year alongside Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Brad Pitt. The movie, which is based on Michael Lewis’s nonfiction best-seller, centres on a group of guys who foresaw the impending upheaval and the housing market bubble that contributed to the 2008 financial disaster. The project received several nominations for Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
In addition to acting alongside Stone in the dark comedy The Nice Guys, Gosling ventured into the world of musical comedies with La La Land in 2016. With a record-breaking 14 Oscar nominations—including Best Actor for Ryan Gosling—and six wins, La La Land turned out to be a huge blockbuster.
With Blade Runner 2049, the follow-up to the 1982 Harrison Ford film, Gosling made a comeback to more popular cinema in 2017, following his inclusion in the ensemble cast of Terrence Malick’s romance drama Song to Song. In First Man, a film about NASA’s 1960s moon landing effort, Gosling played renowned astronaut Neil Armstrong.
Recent Time – ‘Barbie’
Following a four-year hiatus from movies, Ryan Gosling made a comeback in the spy-action thriller The Grey Man (2022), costarring with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. Netflix released the movie, which had a restricted theatrical run. A sequel has been revealed and is now under development, despite the film receiving unfavourable reviews from critics who called it “mediocre” and cliche-filled.
The following year, Gosling costarred with Margot Robbie in the titular role of Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie as Ken. He also performed a rendition of Matchbox Twenty’s “Push” and the song “I’m Just Ken” for the movie’s soundtrack. Reviews of his performance have been largely complimentary. For his performance, he was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice, a SAG, a BAFTA, and more.
Alongside Emily Blunt, Gosling will next be seen in the action movie The Fall Guy. He will also reconnect with Robbie in a prequel to the Ocean’s film series.
Personal Life
Gosling has pushed for a number of humanitarian concerns, including as the ethical treatment of animals, AIDS research, and poverty alleviation. He enjoys building furniture and boxing, which he learned how to do while filming The Notebook. Gosling is a skilled jazz vocalist and guitarist as well.
Gosling has kept romantic relationships with co-stars Sandra Bullock and Rachel McAdams throughout the years. He has been romantically associated with co-star Mendes of Place Beyond the Pines since 2011. The news that they were expecting their first child leaked out in the summer of 2014. In September of that year, Esmeralda Amada Gosling, their daughter, was born. Mendes gave birth to Amada Lee, the couple’s second daughter, in April 2016.
