| Ryan Gosling  AKA Ryan Thomas Gosling
Born: 12-Nov-1980
Birthplace: London, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Murder by Numbers As a scrawny young boy, he was yanked out of school by his parents and homeschooled after being repeatedly harassed by classmates. When he returned to school as an older boy, several of his teachers, according to Gosling, incorrectly mistook his natural squint for evidence he was a pot-head. Ryan was 12 and could not sing or dance when he auditioned successfully for MMC, Disney's late-80s revamping of The Mickey Mouse Club. While working for Disney, he also made Frankenstein and Me, a kiddy-fied horror film for TV starring Burt Reynolds. Gosling then had a short-lived UPN comedy called Breaker High, and played the titular Young Hercules in an adolescent version of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
His first notable movie role was as a neo-Nazi skinhead who reads the Torah and teaches Hebrew in The Believer. Other than that, Gosling is best known for a year-and-a-half fling with Sandra Bullock, 16 years his senior, whom he met when they made Murder by Numbers. Gosling is an animal rights activist, and once wrote a letter to Kentucky Fried Chicken headquarters, protesting their inhumane treatment of chickens.
Father: Thomas Gosling
Mother: Donna Gosling
Sister: Mandi Gosling (b. 1-Jan-1977)
Girlfriend: Sandra Bullock (actress, dated 2002-3)
Girlfriend: Rachel McAdams (actress, dating since 2005)
High School: Lester B. Pearson High School, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
TELEVISION
MMC
Breaker High Sean Hanlon (1997-98)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Lars and the Real Girl (10-Sep-2007)
Fracture (12-Apr-2007)
Half Nelson (3-Aug-2006)
Stay (24-Sep-2005)
The Notebook (20-May-2004)
The United States of Leland (18-Jan-2003)
Murder by Numbers (19-Apr-2002)
The Slaughter Rule (11-Jan-2002)
The Believer (19-Jan-2001)
Remember the Titans (23-Sep-2000)
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