Actor Ryan Gosling arrives at the L.A. premiere of "The Notebook" June 21, 2004. The romantic drama was a sleeper hit and he was named Male Star of Tomorrow at the Show West convention of movie exhibitors. People magazine also put him on its list of 50 Hottest Bachelors.
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling kiss on stage as they accept the award for best kiss for their work in "The Notebook" during the MTV Movie Awards on June 4, 2005, in Los Angeles. They've been a couple since they met while the movie was being cast.
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, stars of the romance movie "The Notebook," pose together at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 14, 2005, in Universal City, Calif. Together, they won awards for movie love scene, movie liplock, and movie chemistry, and the film was named best date movie and best drama.
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, left, pose for photographers as they arrive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony Feb. 18, 2006, in Beverly Hills. McAdams hosted the ceremony, which recognizes achievements for devices, methods, formulas and inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts of sciences of motion pictures.
Director Ryan Fleck, actors Anthony Mackie, Shareeka Epps, Ryan Gosling and writer Anna Boden attend the New York premiere of "Half Nelson" Aug. 2, 2006.
Here is another shot of Ryan Gosling at the premiere of "Half Nelson" in New York on Aug. 2, 2006. Born Nov. 12, 1980, in Canada, Gosling was home-schooled by his mother until it was time for him to go to high school.
Ryan Gosling and his sister, Mandi Gosling, attended the New York premiere of "Half Nelson" together Aug. 2, 2006. He got his first taste of performing when he and Mandi sang together in talent contests when they were younger. In 1993, he auditioned and won a spot on "The Mickey Mouse Club (MMC)" TV show.
Ryan Gosling and sister Mandi also got together to attend the 72nd Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards Gala on Jan. 7, 2007, in New York City. His two years on "MMC" was his springboard into TV, and he appeared in such series as "Young Hercules" and "Breaker High."
And here are brother and sister together again Jan. 9, 2007, at the 2006 National Board Of Review Awards Gala in New York, where he won the award for Breakthrough Performance, Male, for his work in "Half Nelson." He first gained attention from movie critics for his work in "The Believer," which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Ryan Gosling arrives at the 7th Annual AFI Awards luncheon held at the Four Seasons Hotel on Jan. 12, 2007, in Los Angeles. In addition to "Half Nelson," "The Notebook" and "The Believer," Gosling's films include "Remember the Titans" (2000), "Murder By Numbers" (2002), "The Slaughter Rule" (2003) and "Stay" (2005).
Later in the evening of Jan. 12, 2007, Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, who co-starred in "The Notebook," arrived at the 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.