Ryan Gosling: From Mouseketeer and indie darling to Hollywood movie star

Ryan Gosling: From Mouseketeer and indie darling to Hollywood movie star
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La La Land, the award-tipped ode to musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age, sees Ryan Gosling dance, sing, wax lyrical about jazz and woo Emma Stone's aspiring actress in modern day Los Angeles. It's a terrific performance and the 36-year-old seems to be a lock for one of the best actor Oscar nods. To top that off, he will be hitting the screens across the year in Terrence Malick's Weightless and the eagerly anticipated Blade Runner sequel.

Showbusiness isn't new to Gosling - he was a Mousekeeter (alongside pre-teen Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera) in The Mickey Mouse Club, and he played the title role in the Young Hercules series in the late 1990s. Gosling followed television with some smartly chosen indie features and, not too long after, he was primed for the big leagues as a major movie star. Let's take a look at the films which gave him those A-list credentials...

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