Canadian actor Ryan Gosling established himself with misfit outsider roles in award-winning independent films like "The Believer" (2001), “Half Nelson” (2006), and “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007). Gosling had a flare for delving into the psyche of misguided (or lost) characters like a neo-Nazi teen and a small town loner with a sex doll for a girlfriend. Perhaps it was his own off-screen history as a wild child who finally found his niche that enabled him to make even dangerous types sympathetic. Early teen TV fare and a few roles in bigger budget films like “The Notebook” (2004) earned