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A tall, lanky actor who began his career as a singer, Ryan Gosling steadily amassed an impressive resume in film and television before finally breaking through with a powerful performance as a Jewish neo-Nazi in the based-on-fact "The Believer" (2001), the Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival. Born on November 12, 1980 in Ontario, Canada, Gosling began his showbiz career performing with his older sister at local talent shows. After beating out some 17,000 other aspirants, he was selected to join the Disney Channel revival of the "Mickey Mouse Club" in 1993, joining a cast that included future singing superstars Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez of *NSYNC, and Keri Russell....
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