Thomas was a door to door sale person. His mother Donna was employed as a secretary. Unfortunately for the future star his parents separated and he was brought up only by his mother. Gladstone was the school that Ryan went to. The actor failed to make any friends while at school and was picked on quite often. Gosling was released from school after attacking his classmates with kitchen knives. Soon after the accident Ryan was moved to a different school.
It was then when his mother decided to leave her job and start homeschooling the troubled child. What a resourceful guy. To this day his favorite place is Disneyland, he often puts on a hat disguise of the century and goes on all the rides. Hollywood is full of male lead actors who are rather small or medium in stature, but now and then the big men appear.
Gosling had been cast as the father of the murdered teenage girl and initially felt he was too young for the role. The director Peter Jackson and the producer Fran Walsh persuaded him that he could be aged with hair and make-up changes. Before shooting began, Gosling gained 60 pounds in weight and grew a beard to appear older. Walsh then "began to feel he was not right.
It was our blindness, the desire to make it work no matter what. I just showed up on set, and I had gotten it wrong. Then I was fat and unemployed. It's OK to be too young for a role.
In , Gosling appeared as a disturbed young art student in Stay, a psychological thriller film co-starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. Gosling was unfazed by the negative reaction: "I had a kid come up to me on the street, 10 years old, and he says, 'Are you that guy from Stay? What the f was that movie about? I'm just as proud if someone says, 'Hey, you made me sick in that movie,' as if they say I made them cry.
To prepare for the role, Gosling moved to New York for one month before shooting began. He lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn and spent time shadowing an eighth grade teacher. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described "a mesmerizing performance Roger Ebert felt the performance "proves he's one of the finest actors working in contemporary movies.
Gosling is supportive of various social causes. He has worked with PETA on a campaign to encourage KFC and McDonald's to use improved methods of chicken slaughter in their factories, and on a campaign encouraging dairy farmers to stop de-horning cows.
Gosling volunteered in Biloxi, Mississippi in , as part of the clean-up effort following Hurricane Katrina. He is a supporter of Invisible Children, Inc. In , Gosling travelled to Darfur refugee camps in Chad. As part of his work with the Enough Project, he visited Uganda in and eastern Congo in Gosling gained wider recognition in with a leading role in the commercially successful romance The Notebook.
For playing a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson , he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and he next played a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl After a three-year acting hiatus, Gosling starred in the marital drama Blue Valentine Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in , 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.
His directorial debut, Lost River, was released to poor reviews in Greater success came to Gosling when he starred in several critically acclaimed films, including the financial satire The Big Short , and the romantic musical La La Land , for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and received a second Oscar nomination.
Further acclaim followed with the science fiction Blade Runner and the biopic First Man Gosling came to the attention of a mainstream audience in after starring opposite fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams in the romantic drama film The Notebook, a film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel of the same name, directed by Nick Cassavetes.
Gosling portrayed Noah Calhoun and commented on the role: "It gave me an opportunity to play a character over a period of time — from to — that was quite profound and formative. Shepard co-starred in The Notebook. Filming took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in late and early Although Gosling and McAdams became romantically involved in , they had a combative relationship on the set.
The New York Times praised the "spontaneous and combustible" performances of the two leads and noted that, "against your better judgment, you root for the pair to beat the odds against them. The Notebook has appeared on many Most Romantic Movies lists. Gosling was signed on to work with Terrence Malick in on the biographical film Che, but later dropped out. Also in , he starred in Blade Runner , a sequel to the science fiction film Blade Runner, directed by Denis Villeneuve and co-starring Harrison Ford, who reprised his role as Rick Deckard.
Gosling's role was as Officer K, a "blade runner" working for the LAPD whose job it is to kill rogue bioengineered humans known as replicants. Scott found him to be perfectly cast, adding that his "ability to elicit sympathy while seeming too distracted to want it — his knack for making boredom look like passion and vice versa — makes him a perfect warm-blooded robot for our time".
In , Gosling co-starred in the psychological thriller Murder by Numbers with Sandra Bullock and Michael Pitt, where Gosling and Pitt portrayed a pair of high school seniors who believe they can commit the perfect murder. Bullock played the detective tasked with investigating the crime. He has attended many schools including Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School. Gosling was bullied for having no friends. He wanted to be an actor from a very young age and also dropped his studies when he was The couple has been dating each other since He is active in various causes and supports PETA.
He also supports the awareness program by Invisible Children Inc. His height is 1. This was followed by becoming the main role of Hercules in Young Hercules.
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