Ryan Gosling Trivia | 80 facts about the actor

Ryan Gosling is a famous actor who has received various accolades. He recently became viral once again for his role as Ken in the Barbie movie.

Let’s find out about him!

1. His full name is Ryan Thomas Gosling.
2. He was born on November 12th, 1980.
3. His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
4. He is a Canadian actor.
5. He’s prominent in both independent film and major studio features of varying genres.
6. His films have accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD.
7. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award.
8. He was born and raised in Canada.
9. He rose to prominence at age 13 as a child actor on Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996).
10. His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he gained stardom for starring in the 2004 romantic drama The Notebook.
11. Gosling starred in the critically acclaimed independent dramas Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Lars and the Real Girl (2007), and Blue Valentine (2010).
12. He starred in three mainstream successes in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March, and the action drama Drive.
13. After making his directorial debut with Lost River (2014).
14. Ryan Gosling starred in the financial satire The Big Short (2015), the action comedy The Nice Guys (2016), and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him a Golden Globe and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
15. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 (2017), the biopic First Man (2018), and the comedy Barbie (2023).
16. Gosling’s band, Dead Man’s Bones, released their self-titled debut album and toured North America in 2009.
17. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.
18. Ryan Gosling is a supporter of PETA, Invisible Children, and the Enough Project.
19. He has traveled to Chad, Uganda and eastern Congo to raise awareness about conflicts in the regions.
20. Ryan Gosling has been involved in peace promotion efforts in Africa for over a decade.
21. He is in a relationship with actress Eva Mendes.
22. They have two daughters.
23. According to an interview in GQ, he was the only Mickey Mouse Club cast member that didn’t live in the same complex as all the other cast members and their families. He and his family lived in a nearby trailer park and he was the family’s only source of income.
24. Was taken out of elementary school as a child and taught at home by his mother because of constant abuse from other students.
25. Gained 60 lbs to play Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones (2009) by eating melted ice cream. Ultimately he was fired due to creative differences which left him, in his words, “fat and unemployed”.
26. He played all his filmed piano-playing scenes in La La Land, learning to play the instrument in the months before shooting.
27. Unlike many successful actors near his age, he has no entourage and few close friends. He admits to often preferring solitude while not working, attributing it to his autonomous latter childhood.
28. Built the kitchen table featured in The Notebook (2004) in preparation for his role as Noah.
29. A series of videos, entitled “Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal”, which feature clips from various Gosling films with a spoonful of cereal superimposed over the footage, went viral in 2013, receiving millions of views on Vine and YouTube. When the creator of the videos, Ryan McHenry, passed away from osteosarcoma in May 2015, Gosling posted his own video on Vine, in which he can be seen eating a bowl of cereal in tribute to McHenry. He also offered his public condolences to McHenry’s family.
30. Is an accomplished jazz guitarist and a fan of Chet Baker; started a band with his friend Zach Shields called Dead Man’s Bones.
31. Was in a relationship with Rachel McAdams twice, having met on the set of The Notebook (2004). They were originally together from June 2005 to July 2007 before reconciling in August 2008, only to separate a second time in November 2008.
32. He met Eva Mendes on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) in July 2011.
33. Born in the same hospital as his The Notebook (2004) co-star Rachel McAdams — St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario — though he’s younger.
34. Favorite movie is East of Eden (1955)
35. Can speak some basic, conversational Spanish. He began learning in 2011 after starting to date longtime friend and costar Eva Mendes. He said in 2012 he was attempting to read Zoé Valdés’ Café Nostalgia in Spanish, and his two daughters with Mendes are being raised bilingual.
36. Was considered to play Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) before Ben Affleck was cast.
37. Was the first Canadian-born performer in over 60 years to be nominated for the best actor Oscar in Half Nelson (2006). The last was Walter Pidgeon for Madame Curie (1943).
38. Was in a relationship with Sandra Bullock, having met on the set of Murder by Numbers (2002) (May 2002-July 2003).
39. Beat out 17,000 people for a place in MMC (1989) in January 1993.
40. In school, his nickname was Trouble.
41. His favorite actor is Gary Oldman.
42. With two of his friends, he has opened a Moroccan restaurant called Tagine in Beverly Hills, California.
43. He moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 16.
44. New York City: Announces that he plans to take an unspecified “break” from acting because he feels as if he has “lost perspective on what I’m doing.” (March 2013)
45. He first saw Blue Velvet (1986) when he was 14 years old. This movie left a strong impression on him.
46. Took his mother and his sister to the Oscars in 2007.
47. Ryan drives the same color and year model 2011 Chevy Impala in both Drive (2011) and The Ides of March (2011).
48. Purchased the Jeep Cherokee driven by Ben Chaplin in Murder by Numbers (2002) from the set of the movie.
49. Has released a song titled “Put Me in the Car”, which can be found on his website.
50. Was originally cast as Jack Salmon in The Lovely Bones (2009), but after dropping out of the project a day before shooting began, Mark Wahlberg was cast instead.
51. Auditioned for the role of Sam Flynn in Tron: Legacy (2010), but lost to Garrett Hedlund.
52. Lives in the popular Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. Other Silver Lake locals include Beck, Bo Barrett, Christina Ricci, Rachel McAdams, and Jason Lee.
53. He is trained in and regularly practices Muay Thai.
54. Touring the U.S. and Canada with his band, Dead Man’s Bones, in support of their debut album. (October 2009)
55. Had a dog named George.
56. Appeared in two films with Michelle Williams: The United States of Leland (2003) and Blue Valentine (2010). They lived together for four weeks, while filming “Blue Valentine”, in a house in Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
57. He is of roughly half French-Canadian ancestry (from both of his parents combined), along with English, Scottish, Irish, and about 1/32 German. The Gosling surname originates in England, where Ryan’s great-great-grandfather, George Edward Gosling, was born in Paddington. Also, one of Ryan’s five times paternal great-grandfather, James-Jacques Robinson/Robertson, who was from the United States, was African-American, and married into the French-Canadian community.
58. Is the first person born in the 1980s to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (he has been nominated in the category twice). The next four were Jesse Eisenberg (born in 1983), Eddie Redmayne (one win, one nomination) (born in 1982), Andrew Garfield (born in 1983), and Daniel Kaluuya (born in 1989).
59. Was mentioned in two movies in 2014: Maps to the stars ευτυχίας (2014) and Birdman (2014).
60. He and Benicio Del Toro are making tentative plans to visit the jungle in Bolivia, to learn a few survival skills first-hand for Che: Part Two (2008) (aka “Che”). (August 2004)
61. By fans in public, he often gets confused for fellow Canadian actor named Ryan, Ryan Reynolds.
62. Has an older sister named Mandi Gosling.
63. His characters often suffer a broken nose, as seen in Blue Valentine (2010), Only God Forgives (2013), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
64. He is the third male born in 1980 or after to have received more than one Academy Award nomination for acting (for Half Nelson (2006) and La La Land (2016)).
65. Was ranked #23 on Entertainment Weekly’s ’30 Under 30′ the actors list. (2008).
66. Has starred in four films specifically set in Los Angeles (Drive, Gangster Squad, The Nice Guys, and La La Land). Additionally, he has starred in seven films set in New York (The Believer, Stay, Half Nelson, Blue Valentine, All Good Things, Place Beyond the Pines, and The Big Short).
67. He is the first person born in the 1980s (and thus could be considered the first millennial) to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Half Nelson (2006).
68. Keeps in touch with his Breaker High (1997) co-star Scott Vickaryous.
69. In 1992 he was the only boy with a group of girl dancers in a tv talent show.
70. Has a doberman named Lucho.
71. Member of the same Los Angeles gym as Jason Sarayba, Bradley Cooper, Jodie Foster, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Ashley Tisdale.
72. One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
73. Born at 2:34 PM.
74. His nickname is ‘RY’.
75. He was brought up Mormon
76. Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake were close friends as kids, yet they no longer communicate.
77. Ryan Gosling’s legal guardian was actually made to be Timberlake’s mother. At least temporarily. On The Mickey Mouse Club, Gosling and Timberlake co-starred, and after Gosling’s mother left for Canada, Timberlake’s mother took him in.
78. Ryan Gosling is a high school dropout.
79. His Elvis impersonating uncle hired him as a security guard.
80. Ryan Gosling claims that he did not do well in school. In addition to bringing steak knives to school and hurling them at his classmates, Gosling reportedly had subpar grades.