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.\n\nBorn 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).\n\nGosling 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.
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Primarily2026 Project Hail Mary as Ryland Grace Producer
2025 Guys and Dolls
2025 Untitled Ocean's Eleven Prequel
2025 Misadventure
2025 Love of Your Life Producer
2025 Killer Klowns from Outer Space Producer
2025 I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale Producer
2025 Hell of a Summer Thanks
2025 The Actor Executive Producer
2024 The Fall Guy as Colt Seavers Producer
2023 Barbie as Ken
2022 The Gray Man as Six
2021 The Blade Runner Phenomenon as Self - Actor (K) (archive footage)
2019 My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres as Blue Penguin (voice)
2018 First Man as Neil Armstrong
2018 Ryan Gosling: Hollywood's Demigod as Self (archive footage)
2018 Des hommes stylés as Self
2017 Blade Runner 2049 as 'K'
2017 Song to Song as BV
2016 La La Land as Sebastian
2016 The Nice Guys as Holland March
2015 The Big Short as Jared Vennett
2015 Lost River Writer, Director, Producer
2015 My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn as Self
2013 White Shadow Executive Producer
2013 Only God Forgives as Julian Executive Producer
2013 Seduced and Abandoned as Self
2013 The Place Beyond the Pines as Luke Glanton Stunts
2013 Gangster Squad as Sgt. Jerry Wooters
2012 NWR as Self
2011 Touch of Evil as The Invisible Man
2011 Quiet Ryan
2011 The Ides of March as Stephen Meyers
2011 Drive as Driver
2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love. as Jacob
2010 Blue Valentine as Dean Executive Producer
2010 All Good Things as David Marks
2010 ReGeneration as Narration (voice) Producer
2007 Lars and the Real Girl as Lars Lindstrom
2007 Fracture as William Beachum
2006 Half Nelson as Dan Dunne
2005 Stay as Henry Letham
2005 I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust as Ilya Gerber (voice)
2004 The Notebook as Noah Calhoun
2003 The United States of Leland as Leland P. Fitzgerald
2002 Murder by Numbers as Richard Haywood
2002 The Slaughter Rule as Roy Chutney
2001 The Believer as Danny Balint
2000 Remember the Titans as Alan Bosley
1998 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy as Tommy
1996 Frankenstein and Me as Kenny
1996 Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die as Greg Banks