Ryan Gosling

Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor and musician. Gosling began acting at age 12 on the American variety television show The Mickey Mouse Club. At the age of 17, Gosling was cast as Sean in the short lived Canadian television show Breaker High (1997–1998). Following his feature film debut in Remember the Titans (2000), Gosling had his breakout role as a fanatic Neo-Nazi in the 2001 drama film The Believer, for which he received an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Male Lead. In 2004, Gosling gained mainstream success for playing the male lead in the romantic drama The Notebook. Two years later, Gosling earned his first Academy and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as Best Leading Actor, for portraying a junior high school teacher in the independent film Half Nelson (2006). The following year he was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for his lead performance in Lars and the Real Girl (2007). Gosling earned his second Golden Globe nomination for the independent drama Blue Valentine (2010). Aside from acting, Gosling formed the band Dead Man's Bones with his friend Zach Shields. They released their self-titled debut album in October 2009.Gosling divides his time between Toronto and Los Angeles.He dated actress Rachel McAdams, whom he met during the filming of The Notebook, from 2004 to February 2007. The relationship was popular in both the media and amongst fans, even being mentioned in the popular Saturday Night Live sketch "Lazy Sunday", in the lyrics "I love these cupcakes like McAdams loves Gosling". He has stated that he has encountered many fans who took the news of their breakup as hard as he and McAdams did and would be forced to console them. Of the relationship, Gosling said the following to GQ Magazine in 2007: "I mean, God bless The Notebook... It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that." Of their actual breakup, Gosling has also remarked, "The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin' and we called it a draw."