Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor who debuted as a child-actor in ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’ on ‘Disney’ in 1993. He continued working in programs like ‘Goosbumps’ (1996), until he got his first leading role in ’Believer’ (2001). His first memorable role came in ‘The Notebook’ (2004), a movie that became a cult romantic hit.
Since then, he has proven his versatility as an actor in successful movies like, ‘Murders by Numbers’ (2002), Half Nelson’ (2006), ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ (2007), ‘Blue Valentine’ (2010), ‘Crazy, Stupid Love’ (2011), ‘Ides of March’ (2011), ‘Drive’ (2011), ‘The Nice Guys’ (2015),‘The Big Short’ (2015), ‘La La Land’ (2017), ‘Blade Runner 2049’(2017) etc.
He received Oscar nomination for playing a drug addicted teacher in ‘Half Nelson’ and a jazz pianist in musical ‘La La Land’, while ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ and ‘Blue Valentine’ earned him Golden Globe nominations. ‘La La Land’ got him a ‘Golden Globe’ for ‘Best Actor in a Motion Picture’. If one has to choose his worst movies, it would be probably ‘Stay’ (2005) and ‘Gangster Squad’ (2012).
His top grossing movie till date is ‘La La Land’. Ryan is also a singer, director and producer.