
Acting
Community Rating
6.8
TMDB estimate
Born
November 12, 1980 (age 45)
Born in
London, Ontario, Canada
Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Born and raised in Canada, he rose to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition and stardom for the 2004 romance film The Notebook. This was followed by starring roles in a string of critically acclaimed independent dramas including Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He then starred in the acclaimed financial satire The Big Short (2015) and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River.

Project Hail Mary
Ryland Grace
2026

Blade Runner 2049
'K'
2017

Barbie
Ken
2023

La La Land
Sebastian
2016

The Notebook
Noah Calhoun
2004

Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Jacob
2011

Drive
Driver
2011

The Fall Guy
Colt Seavers
2024

The Big Short
Jared Vennett
2015

The Nice Guys
Holland March
2016

First Man
Neil Armstrong
2018

The Gray Man
Six
2022

Fracture
William Beachum
2007

The Place Beyond the Pines
Luke Glanton
2013

Blue Valentine
Dean
2010

Remember the Titans
Alan Bosley
2000

Gangster Squad
Sgt. Jerry Wooters
2013

Lars and the Real Girl
Lars Lindstrom
2007

Stay
Henry Letham
2005

The Ides of March
Stephen Meyers
2011