Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an
Academy Award,
Golden Globe and two-time
Screen Actors Guild award-nominated Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles in
The Notebook,
Half Nelson, and
Lars and the Real Girl.
Biography
Early life
Ryan Gosling was born in
London, Ontario, Canada and raised in the small city of
Cornwall, the son of Donna, a secretary, and Thomas Gosling, a paper mill worker.
His parents, who were
Mormons,
[Village Voice Interview] divorced when he was young.
He had difficulty in school and often engaged in fights with fellow students. On an appearance on the late night Canadian talk show
Open Mike with Mike Bullard, Gosling told of how he was bullied in elementary school (he attended East Front Public School in Cornwall). His mother withdrew him from school and taught him at home from the age of ten.
[Ryan Gosling Interview at The Slaughter Rule official website] While Gosling's mother was Mormon, he was not raised in a strictly devout household and never really identified with Mormonism.
[Ryan Gosling Ain't No Dummy!. Retrieved October 15, 2007] After returning to the public system, he went to
Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School. The family then relocated to
Burlington, Ontario, where Ryan attended
Lester B. Pearson High School (Burlington). Gosling dropped out at age seventeen.
