Mandi Gosling: Facts About Ryan Gosling’s Sister

Mandi Gosling is a celebrity sibling. She is the sister of Ryan Thomas Gosling. Mandi’s brother Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor who is well-known in both independent film and major studio features of varying genres. He is a co-owner of Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. He has been very supportive of various social causes.

Mandi Gosling: Bio Summary

Who Is Ryan Gosling’s Sister, Mandi Gosling?

Mandi Gosling was born on January 1, 1977, in London, Ontario, Canada. As of 2023, she is 46 years old. Her parents are Donna Gosling, a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman for a paper mill. Her parents are both of part French Canadian descent, along with some German, English, Scottish, and Irish. She is the sister of Ryan Thomas Gosling (November 12, 1980).

Mandi Gosling’s brother Ryan Gosling is an actor, producer, director, musician, and philanthropist. The family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her brother Ryan has said that their religious beliefs have influenced every aspect of their lives. Mandi’s father’s job became a reason the family “moved around a lot”. They lived in both Cornwall, Ontario, and Burlington, Ontario.

Mandi Gosling’s parents Donna Gosling and Thomas Ray Gosling decided to get divorced when Mandi and her brother Ryan Gosling were still young. After the divorce, Mandi and Ryan lived with their mother. Mandi encouraged her brother Ryan’s performance in front of audiences from an early age. The siblings sang together at weddings.

Ryan has said that Mandi played a big role in his life as he grew up. Ryan told The Independent: “I think like a girl, I think,” he said. “I was literally raised by my mother and my sister. And I feel like I wouldn’t know how to think any other way. My sister was my best friend and my hero growing up. Because I was home-schooled I didn’t have a lot of friends and I did ballet, which was always just girls. All that stuff had an effect on my brain.”

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Mandi Gosling reportedly attended Santa Monica College in California and later graduated from California State University, Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. While in college, she is said to have worked as a Reporter/Anchor for Valley View News, a student-run broadcast news program at California State University, Northridge. In college, she received an award for the ‘Judge Julian Beck Award’ for being the Most Outstanding Graduate.

Mandi Gosling did a Bachelor of Music with Honours Degree at Randolph College for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada. She has a self-titled youtube channel and prefers to work behind the camera. She is a producer. She has produced several television series. Per her IMDb profile, she was an assistant producer of the TV Series Dateline NBC. She also served as an associate producer of the TV Series, Miss Advised. She is the producer of The Prospect.

Mandi Gosling and her brother Ryan Gosling began a production house “Phantasma Films”. With the production house, Mandi produced and did the casting for the music video for Pharrell Williams’s Grammy Award song Happy (2013). Mandi said of the project: “Today there are so many really talented directors who use music videos as an opportunity to explore a creative idea that they might not be able to do in a full feature film, or in an advertising campaign.

She added: “Because, likely, there is too much money on the line and a lot less freedom with those bigger projects. It was not a traditional casting process, Because we needed a lot of people in such a short period of time, we kind of blasted it out there. We had people record themselves. And we told them ‘Do whatever you’re going to do.’ In the end, we had a mixture of really talented dancers and we had total character types.”

Mandi Gosling was a Content and Awards Producer with the ‘BANFF World Media Festival’ for 9 months (July 2021 to March 2022). She co-founded ‘Uprise Productions’ with Josh Piro in 2019. Their first movie ‘The Prospect’ was in development. She is acting as a Coordinator of Strategic Events for the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto since March 2022.

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Personal Life

Mandi Gosling has a very good relationship with her brother Ryan Gosling. She often appears on the red carpet with him at various events including the 2017 Oscars. The siblings caused a stir on social media when they were spotted at the Oscars. Mandi’s stunning looks stole the spotlight.

However, Ryan once took Mandi and their mother, Donna, to the awards show in 2007 when he was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in Half Nelson. Mandi once accompanied Ryan to the Gotham Awards in 2006 and to the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2008. Meanwhile, Mandi has not provided any information about her love life. It is difficult to tell if she has ever been married before or not. There hasn’t been any information about her children so it is assumed that, she isn’t a mother yet.