As a child, he watched Dick Tracy and was inspired to become an actor. Gosling was educated at Gladstone Public School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and Lester B. His parents divorced when he was 13, and he and his older sister Mandi lived with their mother, an experience Gosling has credited with programming him "to think like a girl". " Because of his father's work, they "moved around a lot" and Gosling lived in both Cornwall, Ontario and Burlington, Ontario. However, he said he "never really could identify with. His parents were Mormons, and Gosling has said that the religion influenced every aspect of their lives. Both of his parents are of part French Canadian descent, along with some German, English, Scottish, and Irish. Ryan Thomas Gosling was born on Novemin London, Ontario, the son of Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman for a paper mill, and Donna, a secretary. 2.6 2015–present: La La Land and return to film.2.5 2013–2014: Mixed reception and directorial debut.2.3 2004–2009: The Notebook and Half Nelson.He is in a relationship with actress Eva Mendes, with whom he has two daughters. Gosling has been involved in peace promotion efforts in Africa for over a decade. Gosling is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children, and the Enough Project and has traveled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.
Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones, released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in 2009. In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). He also 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. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March, and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes.
After a brief hiatus, he starred in the marital drama Blue Valentine (2010). He next played a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl (2007). For playing a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006), Gosling was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the seventh-youngest nominee at that time. Gosling gained wider recognition in 2004 with a leading role in the commercially successful romance The Notebook.
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). He came 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). Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor.