His breakthrough role was that of a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer , and he gained stardom in the romantic drama The Notebook. In , Gosling had three mainstream successes in the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love , the political drama The Ides of March , and the action thriller Drive.
Further acclaim followed with the science fiction film Blade Runner and the biopic First Man In , he played Ken in the fantasy comedy Barbie , which emerged as his highest-grossing release and earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones , released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in He has been involved in peace promotion efforts in Africa for over a decade. He is in a relationship with actress Eva Mendes , with whom he has two daughters.
Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on November 12, , at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario , [ 3 ] the son of Thomas Ray Gosling, a travelling salesman for a paper mill , [ 4 ] and Donna, a secretary.
Pearson High School. This incident led to a suspension. He began to model his accent on that of Marlon Brando. Gosling has credited the experience with instilling in him "this great sense of focus. Timberlake's mother became Gosling's legal guardian after his own mother had to return to Canada for work reasons. Following the show's cancellation in , Gosling returned to Canada, where he continued to appear in family entertainment television series, including Are You Afraid of the Dark?
He wanted to spend more time sitting with and devising a character as well as play a variety of roles, so he chose to transition into film and not accept any more television work. Aged 19, Gosling decided to move into "serious acting". He was dropped by his agent and initially found it difficult to secure work because of the "stigma" attached to children's television.
