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13 Successful Celebrities Who Dropped Out of School

2. Ryan Gosling

The Gangster Squad actor was born in London, Ontario to a secretary mom and traveling salesman dad. Gosling was home-schooled by his mother up until in was time to attend high school. Gosling enrolled at the Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario. Then in 1993, Gosling attended an open audition for The Mickey Mouse Club. He beat out 17,000 other aspiring actors for a spot on the show. While on the show, he was his family’s only source of income. Gosling left school at 16 and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Today, he’s considered one of the finest actors of this generation starring in hit films such as The Notebook, Half Nelson, Drive, Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

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