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Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor, director, writer and musician. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's ''Mickey Mouse Club'' (1993–95) and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' (1995), ''Goosebumps'' (1996), ''Breaker High'' (1997–98) and ''Young Hercules'' (1998–99). His first serious role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in ''The Believer'' (2001), and he then built a reputation for playing misfits in independent films such as ''Murder by Numbers'' (2002), ''The Slaughter Rule'' (2002), and ''The United States of Leland'' (2003). Gosling came to the attention of a wider audience in 2004 with a leading role in the romantic drama ''The Notebook'', for which he won four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award. His performance as a drug-addicted teacher in ''Half Nelson'' (2006) was nominated for an Academy Award and his performance as a socially inept loner in ''Lars and the Real Girl'' (2007) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Also in 2007, he starred in the courtroom thriller ''Fracture''. After a three-year acting hiatus, Gosling starred in ''Blue Valentine'', earning him a second Golden Globe nomination. 2011 proved to be a landmark year for the actor as he appeared in three mainstream films – the romantic comedy ''Crazy, Stupid, Love'', the political drama ''The Ides of March'' and the thriller ''Drive'' – and received two Golden Globe nominations. In 2013, he starred in the period crime feature ''Gangster Squad'', and the generational drama ''The Place Beyond the Pines'', and will next appear in the revenge film ''Only God Forgives''. Gosling's band, Dead Man's Bones, released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in 2009. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. He is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children and the Enough Project and has travelled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions.

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