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Happy Birthday Ryan Gosling! Celebrate our Nation’s Boyfriend with a Look Back

By Tara Bennett on September 15, 2011

Snakkle wishes a Happy Birthday to our nation’s collective boyfriend, Ryan Gosling! Gosling’s one of few child performers who was able to successfully navigate his career through puberty and into adulthood. Roles in films like The Notebook and Half Nelson have cemented him as one of Hollywood’s most compelling young leading men, and we look back at his rise to stardom.