Looking Back
From a Mouseketeer to a Badass in Drive: Ryan Gosling’s Come a Long Way, Baby!
Ryan 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. By Tara Bennett
Ryan Gosling in The Mickey Mouse Club
A Canada native, Ryan was always a performer, singing at weddings and talent competitions with his older sister and hoofing with a local dance troupe as a kid. When he was 12, Ryan was selected out of 17,000 kids to be on Disney’s new The Mickey Mouse Club. He sang, danced and performed sketches with fellow MMC cast like Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, and Britney Spears.
September 16, 2011 at 3:54 pm, Alex James Ribble said:
Yikes! Who WASN’T a MMC kid?