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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling
Born:
Career: 1996-2009
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Romance
Drama
Thriller
Biography by Jason Buchanan
Despite his confident good looks and his role as the son of Zeus on television's popular Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Ryan Gosling ironically used to get chuckles by donning a Speedo and flexing like a professional weightlifter as a scrawny six-year-old. Born in London, Ontario, Canada, in November 1980, and raised in nearby Cornwall, Gosling was withdrawn for private schooling early on due to harassment by his classmates. Quickly learning the value of confidence, the bright youngster focused his energy into acting and landed a two-year role on The Mickey Mouse Club at age 12. Soon moving on to television commercials and roles in such films as Disney's Frankenstein and Me (1996), Gosling returned to television in 1997 for the short-lived Breaker High before finding more sturdy television ground in his Hercules role the following year. Since then, the actor has tackled increasingly challenging roles such as his turn as a conflicted Jewish student in The Believer (2001) and as a teen who commits murder in the name of mercy in The United States of Leland (2002). That same year, the increasingly busy Gosling starred in both The Slaughter Rule, and alongside Sandra Bullock in the crime thriller Murder by Numbers.

Though he was racking up credibility as a serious young actor in indie features, Gosling became an unlikely box-office heartthrob with the 2004 summer-season romance The Notebook. Starring opposite another young break-out Canadian actor, Rachel McAdams, Gosling added some depth to the otherwise treacly adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' popular tome of enduring love before and after World War II. Rather than parlay his newfound fame into leading-man action roles, Gosling chose a route not unlike Edward Norton before him, alternating between indie features and challenging, bigger-budget Hollywood productions. This strategy didn't yield great dividends with the spooky 2005 misfire Stay, but it did bring Gosling high praise for the 2006 Sundance Festival favorite Half Nelson. A slice-of-life drama focusing on a young, cocaine-addicted, inner-city middle-school teacher and the student with whom he forms a bond, the film offered Gosling the opportunity to play another intense, conflicted young man in a natural, effortless style, a performance aided in large part by his bracing young co-star Shareeka Epps. Helped by glowing reviews, the micro-budgeted Half Nelson became an arthouse success through awards season, when Gosling's name was mentioned by numerous critics' organizations in year-end honors. Though ignored by the Golden Globes, the dark-horse Gosling was recognized among a formidable group of Best Actors when Oscar nominations were announced.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
All Good Things 2009 Actor [Starring]
The Dallas Buyers Club 2009 Actor [Starring]
Fracture 2007 Actor [Starring]
Lars and the Real Girl 2007 Actor [Starring]
Half Nelson 2006 Actor [Starring]
I'm Still Here 2005 Voice [Starring]
Stay 2005 Actor [Starring]
The Notebook 2004 Actor [Starring]
Murder By Numbers 2002 Actor [Starring]
The Slaughter Rule 2002 Actor [Starring]
The United States of Leland 2002 Actor [Starring]
The Believer 2001 Actor [Starring]
Remember the Titans 2000 Actor [Starring]
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - The Academy 1999 Actor [Starring]
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy 1998 Actor [Starring]
Frankenstein and Me 1996 Actor [Starring]

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Anthony Hopkins played Ted Crawford opposite Ryan Gosling's Willy Beachum in the 2007 crime drama 'Fracture'.
They did get back together for a short period of time, but now she is dating Joshua Lucas. The last I heard, they were apartment hunting. I do wish she was with Ryan though
Rachel McAdams. Rachel McAdams. Is his ex-girlfriend. They broke up at Nov 2007 Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams had been dating but did however split in November 2007, Since many rumors and magazine articles have claimed that they are bac...

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Awards

Year Movie/Film Role
2007 Golden Satellite Award Lars and the Real Girl Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Nom)
2007 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Lars and the Real Girl Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Nom)
2007 Ohio Film Critics Lars and the Real Girl Best Actor (Nom)
2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association Lars and the Real Girl Best Actor (Nom)
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Lars and the Real Girl Best Actor (Nom)
2007 Screen Actors Guild Lars and the Real Girl Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Boston Society of Film Critics Half Nelson Best Actor - Runner-up (Won)
2006 New York Film Critics Society Half Nelson Best Actor - Runner-up (Won)
2006 National Society of Film Critics Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Online Film Critics Association Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Independent Spirit Awards Half Nelson Best Actor (Won)
2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
2006 Screen Actors Guild Half Nelson Best Actor (Nom)
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