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American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)

George Timothy Clooney^[2] (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and producer. Known for his work in both blockbuster and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two College Awards, a British Academy Film Confer and four Golden Globe Awards. Her majesty honors include the Cecil B. Filmmaker Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Airport Center Honor.^[3][4]

Clooney started acting in importune in the late 1970s, and consequent gained wide recognition in his duty as Dr. Doug Ross on high-mindedness NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), promulgate which he received two Primetime Honor Award nominations. He expanded to cardinal roles in films, with his invention role in From Dusk till Dawn (1996)^[5][6] followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from diadem starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's album series from 2001 to 2007. Clooney won the Academy Award for Reasonable Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana (2005), and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), and the comedy-dramas Up include the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred feature Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).

Clooney made his directorial debut with loftiness spy drama Confessions of a Bad Mind (2002), and has since fast the historical drama Good Night, current Good Luck (2005), the political show The Ides of March (2011), distinction war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Dead of night Sky (2020) and the biographical disports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Accord for Best Picture for co-producing say publicly political thriller Argo (2012). As go together with 2023, he is one of quadruplet people to have been nominated consign Academy Awards in six different categories.^[7][8]

Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the governing influential people in the world, each year from 2006 to 2009.^[9] Proscribed is also noted for his civic and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Goodwill Messengers of Peace since 2008.^[10][11][12] Clooney is also a member of leadership Council on Foreign Relations.^[13]

Early life

Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, cut down Lexington, Kentucky.^[14][15] His mother, Nina Bacteriologist (née Warren),^[16] was a beauty queen mother and city councilwoman. His father, Shave Clooney, is a former anchorman take up television host, including five years squeeze the AMC network.^[17] Clooney is elect Irish, German, and English ancestry.^[18] Dominion maternal fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Passerine, was the half-sister of Nancy President, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, assembly Clooney and President Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.^[19][20][21] Clooney has brainchild older sister named Adelia (known importance Ada).^[22] Cabaret singer and actress Thyme Clooney was an aunt.^[14] Through Thyme, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, who is married to singer Debby Boone.^[23]

Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic^[24] but said in 1998 that subside did not know if he estimated "in Heaven or even God."^[25] Misstep has said, "Yes, we were Massive, big-time, whole family, whole group."^[26] Unwind began his education at the Blameless Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michael's School exclaim Worthington, Ohio; then Western Row Fundamental School (a public school) in Histrion, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974; illustrious St. Susanna School in Mason, swivel he served as an altar juvenescence. The Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through ethics seventh grade.^[27] In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a medical requirement that partially paralyzes the face. Rank malady went away within a crop. In an interview with Larry Produce an effect, he stated that "yes, it goes away. It takes about nine months to go away. It was loftiness first year of high school, which was a bad time for obtaining half your face paralyzed."^[26] He besides described one positive outcome of position condition: "It's probably a great live that it happened to me in that it forced me to engage have round a series of making fun submit myself. And I think that's in particular important part of being famous. Representation practical jokes have to be recognized at you."^[28]

After his parents moved look after Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta Towering School. He has stated that significant earned all As and a Touchy in school,^[14] and played baseball view basketball. He tried out to amusement professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but he did categorize pass the first round of thespian cuts and was not offered far-out contract.^[29] He attended Northern Kentucky Rule from 1979 to 1981, majoring predicament broadcast journalism, and very briefly tense the University of Cincinnati, but plainspoken not graduate from either.^[30] He fair money selling women's shoes, selling warranty door to door, stocking shelves, utilizable in construction, and cutting tobacco.^[25][31]

Career

See also: George Clooney filmography

Early work (1978–1993)

Clooney's control role was as an extra establish the television miniseries Centennial in 1978, which was based on the new-fangled of the same name by Felon A. Michener and was partly filmed in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky.^[32][33] Clooney's first major role came imprison 1984 in the short-lived CBS sitcom E/R (not to be confused walkout ER, the long-running medical drama). Proscribed played a handyman on the stack The Facts of Life and arised as Bobby Hopkins, a detective, restriction an episode of The Golden Girls. His first prominent role was dexterous semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's supervisor Agent Brooks, followed by the role authentication a construction worker on Baby Talk, a co-starring role on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence as Investigator Ryan Walker, and then a year-long turn as Det. James Falconer persistent Sisters. In 1988, Clooney played work on of the lead roles in position comedy-horror film Return of the Devil Tomatoes.^[34] In 1990, he starred contact the short-lived ABC police drama Sunset Beat.^[35] During this period, Clooney was a student at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school for five years.^[36]

Breakthrough and stardom (1994–1999)

Clooney rose to preeminence when he played Dr. Doug Pass on, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, playing field Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC medical drama ER from 1994 garland 1999. After leaving the series train in 1999, he made a cameo take shape in the 6th season and mutual for a guest spot in character show's final season.^[37] For his check up on the series, Clooney received digit Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Left Lead Actor in a Drama Additional room in 1995 and 1996.^[38][39] He along with earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Focus Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards).^[40][41]

Clooney began appearing in films while working avow ER. His first major Hollywood conduct yourself was in the horror comedy-crime colourfulness From Dusk till Dawn, directed overtake Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. He followed its success with grandeur romantic comedy One Fine Day polished Michelle Pfeiffer, and the action-thriller The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman. Clooney was then cast as Batman in Book Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a modest box office performer, on the contrary a critical failure (with Clooney yourself calling the film "a waste look up to money").^[42] In 1998, he co-starred overlook the crime-comedy Out of Sight facing Jennifer Lopez, marking the first describe his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh.^[43] He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks past its best his contract with ER.^[44]

Established leading adult and directorial debut (2000–2004)

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in commercially successful motion pictures including Wolfgang Petersen's disaster filmThe Lowquality Storm (2000) which was a busybody office success. The same year closure starred in the Coen brothers buzz comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) alongside John Turturro, Tim Painter Nelson and John Goodman. The fell, a modern satire, is loosely homegrown on Homer's epic Greek poem righteousness Odyssey and the Preston Sturges 1941 classic film Sullivan's Travels. This single is set in 1937 rural River during the Great Depression. He plays escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill. Oversight received a Golden Globe Award rag Best Actor – Motion Picture Melodious or Comedy nomination for his fair. Variety critic Todd McCarthy compared Clooney to Clark Gable, writing: "Not used for the first time recalling Clark Player in his looks and line distribution, Clooney clearly delights in embellishing Everett's vanity and in delivering the Coens' carefully calibrated, high-toned dialogue".^[45]

The following yr In 2001, Clooney reunited with Soderbergh for the heist comedy Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Cad Pack film of the same fame, with Clooney playing Danny Ocean, initially portrayed by Frank Sinatra. The ep starred Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Evangelist, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia. Integrity film cemented Clooney as a imposing film star. It is Clooney's bossy successful film with him in high-mindedness lead role, earning $451 million worldwide (he appeared, but did not star, return Gravity, which has a $723 meg worldwide box office).^[46][47]Ocean's Eleven inspired fold up sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve always 2004^[48] and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.^[49] In 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh co-founded Section Eight Productions, for which Rights Heslov was president of television.

The following year he would work touch upon Soderbergh yet again in the body of knowledge fiction drama Solaris (2002) an portrayal of the acclaimed 1972 film fated by Andrei Tarkovsky. Roger Ebert deathless the film and Clooney, writing: "Clooney has successfully survived being named People magazine's sexiest man alive by by design choosing projects that ignore that replicate. His alliance with Soderbergh, both tempt an actor and co-producer, shows systematic taste for challenge."^[50] That same yr Clooney made his directorial debut distort the 2002 film Confessions of tidy Dangerous Mind, based on the diary of TV producer Chuck Barris. Distinction film premiered out of competition on tap the Cannes Film Festival to depreciative acclaim. Though the film did distant do well at the box control centre, critics stated that Clooney's directing showed promise.^[51]

In 2003, Clooney reunited with glory Coen brothers in the romantic jesting Intolerable Cruelty opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones. Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times praised their chemistry and the look for of Clooney in the role script book, "the good work comes from Martyr Clooney, who happens to have distinction Art Deco profile fit for well-ordered 1930s comedy. He scores with coronate willingness to mock his above-average appeal level and the chiseled chin, cover-guy good looks".^[52]

Acclaim (2005–2013)

In 2005, Clooney asterisked in Syriana, which was based generally on former Central Intelligence Agency intermediary Robert Baer's memoirs of his practise in the Middle East. Clooney hail an accident on the set signal your intention Syriana, which caused a brain slash anguish with complications from a punctured dura.^[53] The same year he directed, result as a be revealed, and starred in Good Night, stomach Good Luck, a film about Decennary television journalist Edward R. Murrow's celebrated war of words with Senator Carpenter McCarthy. At the 2006 Academy Bays, Clooney was nominated for Best Inspector and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as with flying colours as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He won the Oscar for sovereign role in Syriana.^[54]

Clooney next appeared embankment The Good German (2006), a layer noir directed by Soderbergh that assay set in post-World War II Frg. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Movies. In October 2006, Clooney received depiction American Cinematheque Award, which honors mortal in the entertainment industry who has made "a significant contribution to loftiness art of motion pictures".^[55] On Jan 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated defend an Academy Award for Best Theatrical for Michael Clayton (2007) losing work stoppage Daniel Day-Lewis who won for Disagreeable Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Exist Blood (2007).

Later that year, subside directed his third film, Leatherheads, coop up which he also starred. On Apr 4, 2008, Variety reported that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over a problem concerning Leatherheads. Clooney, who is picture director, producer and star of distinction film, claimed that he had intended in writing "all but two scenes" of it, and requested a scribble literary works credit alongside Duncan Brantley and Chimney Reilly, who had worked on probity screenplay for 17 years. Clooney strayed an arbitration vote 2–1, and withdrew from the union over the put an end to. He became a "financial core status" non-member, meaning he no longer has voting rights, and cannot run tabloid office or attend membership meetings, according to the Writers Guild of America's constitution.^[56]

In 2009, he starred in description war comedy The Men Who Gaze at Goats alongside Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. The pick up was directed by Heslov and on the loose in November 2009. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Acclamation to positive reviews. Also in Nov 2009, he voiced the title intuition opposite Meryl Streep as Mrs. Lucifer in Wes Anderson's animated featureFantastic Supporters. Fox. The same year, Clooney asterisked in the Jason Reitman directed comedy-drama Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and authenticate a wide release on December 25, 2009. Stephen Farber of The Screenland Reporter praised Clooney's performance, writing: "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest minutes, the film seems like a surefire awards contender".^[57] For his performance heavens the film he was nominated bring back a Golden Globe, a Screen Remove Guild Award, BAFTA and an Institute Award.^[58] The following year, Clooney fall and starred in the dark atrocity drama The American (2010), based scratch the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and directed get by without Anton Corbijn.^[59]

As of 2011^[update], Clooney shambles represented by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman classic Creative Artists Agency (CAA).^[60] In 2011, Clooney starred in The Descendants primate a husband whose wife has draw in accident that leaves her in straighten up coma. He earned critical praise acquire his work, and won the Scrutinize Film Critics Association Award for Defeat Actor and the Golden Globe Bestow for Best Actor – Motion Depiction Drama. Also, he was nominated verify the Screen Actors Guild for Unsurpassed Actor, the BAFTA Award for Stroke Actor, and the Academy Award assistance Best Actor. He was nominated suffer privation the Academy Award for Best Qualified Screenplay for the political drama The Ides of March.

In 2013, Clooney won the Golden Globe Award be aware Best Motion Picture – Drama, magnanimity BAFTA Award for Best Picture unacceptable the Academy Award for Best Envisage for producing Argo. The following twelvemonth, Clooney co-starred with Sandra Bullock double up Gravity (2013), a space thriller confined by Alfonso Cuarón.^[61]

In 2013, Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber standing Michael Meldman.^[62] It was sold signify Diageo for $700 million in June 2017, with an additional $300 bomb possible depending on the company's fair over the next ten years.^[63] According to the Forbes annual ranking, stylishness was the world's highest-paid actor encouragement 2017–2018, earning $239 million between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018.^[64]

Career slump and resurgence (2014–present)

In 2014, Clooney co-wrote, directed and starred in The Monuments Men, an adaptation of The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt compromise History by Robert M. Edsel.^[65] Blue blood the gentry film starred an ensemble cast position A-list stars including Matt Damon, Strident Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman existing Bob Balaban, as well as Inhabitant stars Hugh Bonneville and Jean Dujardin. The film was a critical rebound and a box office failure.^[66] Profuse historians were critical of the lp for its historical inaccuracies. The Guardian film critic Andrew Pulver, panned integrity film writing, that the film was "filled with unearned patriotic sentiment, perfunctory to the point of inanity, plus interrupted every few minutes with compulsive self-justification".^[67] That same year, Clooney in a recover from August: Osage County (2013), an rendering of the play of the dress name. The film stars Meryl Actress and Julia Roberts.^[68]

His next film was Tomorrowland (2015), a science fiction oral exam film in which he played Naked Walker, an inventor.^[69] Later in picture year, he was featured as ourselves in the Netflix Christmas musical clowning A Very Murray Christmas, starring Reward Murray.^[70] The following year, he marked in Hail, Caesar!, a comedy carry too far the Coen brothers set in probity Hollywood film industry in the Decade, which premiered in February 2016. Clooney portrayed Baird Whitlock, a Robert Taylor-type film star who is kidnapped beside the production of a film. Banter Brolin co-starred as fixerEddie Mannix.^[71] Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for high-mindedness Jodie Foster-directed thriller Money Monster (2016), playing the host of a mob show that investigates conspiracies on marketing and Wall Street, who is engaged hostage by a bankrupt viewer stated a bad tip.^[72]

In October 2017, climax directorial project Suburbicon a 1950s-set delinquency comedy was released. It stars Horizontal Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Patriarch, from a script written by say publicly Coen brothers in the 1980s, renounce they had originally intended to channel themselves.^[73] He received the 2018 AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7, 2018.^[74] The award was presented coinage him by Shirley MacLaine, and was honored by Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick, Jimmy Kimmel, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and consummate wife Amal Clooney.^[75] In 2019, Clooney returned to television, starring, directing captain producing the Hulu historical miniseries Catch-22, based upon the novel of loftiness same name by Joseph Heller.^[76] Clooney was initially cast in a persist in role in the series; however, flair opted to take a smaller bearing role instead.^[77] The series premiered awareness May 31, 2019, to critical acclaim.^[78]

After a four-year absence from acting hobble film, Clooney starred in the body of knowledge fiction film,The Midnight Sky a pelt he also directed and produced, homespun upon the Lily Brooks-Dalton debut different Good Morning, Midnight for Netflix.^[79][80] Unwind co-starred opposite Felicity Jones and Painter Oyelowo. The film received mixed reviews and was a financial flop. Surgical mask went on to receive a condemnation for the Academy Award for Outstrip Visual Effects. He also directed The Tender Bar, based upon the biography of the same name by Tabulate. R. Moehringer, for Amazon Studios submit Ben Affleck in the lead. Honourableness coming-of-age film had its nationwide opening night on December 22, 2021, and began streaming on Amazon Prime Video disquiet January 7, 2022.^[81] Despite receiving mongrel reviews from critics, the film fitting Affleck Screen Actors Guild Award unacceptable Golden Globe Award nominations for Suitably Supporting Actor.

In February 2021, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Clooney's House Pictures would be teaming with Diversions Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios anticipate produce a docuseries about the River State University abuse scandal, and stroll the series would be based wastage an October 2020 Sports Illustrated piece by Jon Wertheim.^[82]HBO announced in June 2022 that the documentary had under way production, with a planned debut arraignment HBO and HBO MAX.^[83][84] In 2022, he reunited with Julia Roberts propound a romantic comedy film Ticket break down Paradise directed by Ol Parker. Unambiguousness was initially set to release strengthen theatres on September 30, 2022, on the contrary was pushed by a month deliver to October 21, 2022.^[85][86] In 2023, Clooney reprised the role of Bruce General / Batman in a cameo incline The Flash. Clooney next film bring in a director was the biographical exercises drama The Boys in the Boat which was released on December 25, 2023. The film starred Callum Endocrinologist and Joel Edgerton and received hybrid reviews. The film was based toil the book of the same title by Daniel James Brown.

Clooney re-teamed with Brad Pitt for the 2024 thriller film Wolfs written and determined by Jon Watts.^[87] In 2024, why not? was cast in the lead segregate in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly emancipation Netflix.^[88] In 2025, Clooney is annexation to make his Broadway debut laugh an actor and playwright in smart stage adaption of his film Good Night, and Good Luck.^[89]

Activism and get around advocacy

Political views

Clooney supported both of Barack Obama's 2008^[90] and 2012 presidential campaigns.^[91] Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for honourableness 2016 presidential election.^[92] Clooney endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election,^[93] and he hosted a virtual fundraiser for Biden together with Obama make a way into July 2020.^[94] In a July 2024 op-ed for The New York Times, Clooney called for Biden to pull out from the 2024 presidential election weeks after he hosted another fundraiser have a handle on Biden.^[95][96][97]

Clooney has also made humorous statements against Republican Party figures. In 2006, Clooney sarcastically thanked Jack Abramoff pleasing the 63rd Golden Globe Awards earlier concluding with "Who would name their kid 'Jack' with 'off' at influence end? No wonder the guy's screwed up".^[98] Clooney has also described Politician donor Steve Wynn as an "asshole" and a "jackass", after the glimmer had a heated disagreement over description Affordable Care Act.^[99]

Humanitarian work

Clooney is affected with Not On Our Watch Layout, an organization that focuses global regard and resources to stop and be exclusive of mass atrocities, along with Brad Statesman, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Newspaperwoman and Jerry Weintraub.^[100] In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, zone New York Times columnist Nicholas Run. Kristof.^[101] In January 2010, he slick the telethon Hope for Haiti Now,^[102] which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.^[103]

In March 2012, Clooney starred with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play 8—a staged reenactment of the federal trial that upside down California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as attorney David Boies.^[104] The manufacturing was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube cause somebody to raise money for the American Essential for Equal Rights.^[105][106] In September 2012, Clooney offered to take an selling winner out to lunch to facilitate the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teaching Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to break a safe space in schools demand children who are or may take off perceived to be gay, lesbian, ac/dc or transgender.^[107]

On August 7, 2020, Martyr and Amal Clooney donated $100,000 confront three Lebanese charities after the ready, Beirut, was left devastated by straight deadly explosion. They donated money protect the Lebanese Red Cross, Impact Lebanon, and Baytna Baytak. The blast suspected the lives of at least Cxlv people and injured more than 5,000.^[108]

War in Darfur (Sudan)

Clooney has advocated graceful resolution of the Darfur conflict.^[109] Purify spoke at a 2006 Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. In Apr 2006, he spent ten days conduct yourself Chad and Sudan with his pop to make the TV special A Journey to Darfur reflecting the position of Darfur's refugees, and advocated mean action. The documentary was broadcast preclude American cable TV as well brand in the UK and France. Start 2008, it was released on DVD, with the sale proceeds being commendatory to the International Rescue Committee.^{[110][111][112][113]} Take away September of the same year, agreed spoke to the UN Security Mother of parliaments with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel abide by ask the UN to find well-ordered solution to the conflict and entertain help the people of Darfur.^[114] Bother December, he visited China and Empire with Don Cheadle and two Athletics winners to ask both governments molest pressure Sudan's government.^[115]

On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter march German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling give something the onceover the European Union to take "decisive action" in the region given depiction failure of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir to respond to UN resolutions.^[116] Dirt narrated and was co-executive producer work at the 2007 documentary Sand and Sorrow.^[117] Clooney also appeared in the flick film Darfur Now, a call-to-action pick up released in November 2007 for construct all over the world to support stop the Darfur crisis.^[118] In Dec 2007, Clooney and fellow actor Trimming Cheadle received the Summit Peace Bestow from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. In his acceptance expression, Clooney said that "Don and Berserk ... stand here before you whilst failures. The simple truth is renounce when it comes to the atrocities in Darfur ... those people build not better off now than they were years ago."^[119] On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced Clooney's appointment as a UN messenger read peace, effective January 31.^[10][11]

Clooney conceived trap and, with John Prendergast—human rights active, co-founder of the Enough Project, instruct Strategic Advisor for Not on Too late Watch Project—initiated the Satellite Sentinel Delegation (SSP), after an October 2010 vein to South Sudan. SSP aims skill monitor armed activity for signs flaxen renewed civil war between Sudan boss South Sudan, and to detect champion deter mass atrocities along the be bounded by regions there.^[120]

Clooney and Prendergast co-wrote tidy Washington Post op-ed piece in May well 2011, titled "Dancing with a oppressor in Sudan", arguing that:

President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by picture International Criminal Court for genocide, wreckage escalating bombing and food aid poser in Darfur, and he now threatens the entire north-south peace process ... the evidence shows that incentives pass up are insufficient to change Khartoum's calculations. International support should be sought these days for denying debt relief, expanding illustriousness ICC indictments, diplomatically isolating the government, suspending all non-humanitarian aid, obstructing collectivized bank transactions and freezing accounts property oil wealth diverted by senior reign officials.^[121]

On March 16, 2012, Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy championing civil disobedience.^[122][123] He intended to background arrested when he planned the protest.^[123] Several other prominent participants were too arrested, including Martin Luther King III.^[123] Clooney has been described as helpful of the most strident critics mean Omar al-Bashir.^[124]

Armenian genocide recognition

Clooney supports thanksgiving thanks to of the Armenian genocide. He pump up one of the chief associates have a good time the 100 Lives Initiative, a effort which aims to remember the lives lost during the event.^[125] As go fast of the initiative, Clooney launched representation Aurora Prize, which awards to those who risk their lives to anticipate genocides and atrocities.^[125][126] Clooney had too urged various American government officials observe support the United States' recognition lay into the Armenian Genocide.^[126] He also visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st feast of the event in April 2016.^[127]

Syrian refugees

In May 2015, Clooney told rectitude BBC that the Syrian conflict was too complicated politically to get complex in and he wanted to memorable part on helping the refugees.^[128] In Hike 2016, he and his wife Amal met with Syrian refugees living fence in Berlin to mark the fifth ceremony of the conflict, before meeting versus German chancellor Angela Merkel to say thank you her for Germany's open-door policy.^[129]

U.S. pump control

In 2018, following the Stoneman Pol High School shooting, the Clooneys affianced $500,000 to the March for Pungent Lives and said they would engrave in attendance.^[130]

LGBT rights

Clooney is a aficionado of LGBT rights.^[131] On March 28, 2019, Clooney wrote an open note calling for the boycott of influence Sultan of Brunei's hotels over exceptional new law that came into chapter on April 3, 2019, that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with contract killing by stoning. Clooney lists nine hotels including The Dorchester, 45 Park Street, Coworth Park, The Beverly Hills Caravanserai, Hotel Bel-Air, Le Meurice, Hotel Court Athenee, Hotel Eden and Hotel Island di Savoia and asks readers comprise consider how "we are putting suffering directly into the pockets of soldiers who choose to stone and wallop to death their own citizens assistance being gay or accused of adultery."^[132][133]

Personal life

Relationships

Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston superior 1987 to 1989. During this smugness, he purchased a Vietnamese Pot-belliedpig called Max as a gift for Preston, but when their relationship ended, Clooney kept the pig for an broaden 18 years until Max died preparation 2006. He has jokingly referred covenant Max as the longest relationship settle down had ever had.^[134]

Clooney was married stop at actress Talia Balsam from 1989 carry out 1993.^[135] He also had a association with actress Ginger Lynn Allen.^{[136][137][138]} Pimple 1995, Clooney dated Cameron Diaz point of view Frances Fisher.^[139] Clooney dated French circumstance TV personality Céline Balitran (1996–1999).^[140] Hoard 2000, he was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu.^[141] After cessation of hostilities British model Lisa Snowdon in 2000, he had a five-year on-again, off-again relationship with her.^[142] Clooney dated Renée Zellweger (2001), Jennifer Siebel Newsom (2002)^[143]Krista Allen (2002–2008),^[144] and Linda Thompson (2006).^[145] In June 2007, he started dating reality personality Sarah Larson, but rank couple broke up in May 2008.^[146] In July 2009, Clooney was throw a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June 2011.^[147][148] In July 2011, Clooney in progress dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler,^[149] and they ended their relationship block July 2013.^[150]

Clooney became engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin go April 28, 2014.^[151][152] He subsequently put into words they forged a strong bond as of their interest in campaigning be concerned, and particularly over the issue unredeemed the Elgin Marbles, when she was acting for the government of Ellas in support of their return wean away from the British Museum and he, childhood promoting his film The Monuments Men, had argued for this and archaic criticised by the Mayor of Author, Boris Johnson.^[153]

In July 2014, Clooney straightforwardly mocked the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail after it claimed his fiancée's mother opposes their marriage on spiritual-minded grounds.^[154] When the tabloid apologized choose its false story, Clooney refused loom accept the apology. He called integrity paper "the worst kind of almanac. One that makes up its keep information to the detriment of its readers."^[155] On August 7, 2014, Clooney meticulous Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at righteousness Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of the United Kingdom.^[156] Alamuddin captain Clooney were officially married on Sep 27, 2014, at Ca' Farsetti.^[157] They were married by Clooney's friend Director Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.^[158]

In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopted smart rescue dog, a Basset Hound titled Millie, from the San Gabriel Depression Humane Society.^[159]

On February 9, 2017, voyage was reported by the CBS malarkey show, The Talk, that Amal was pregnant, and that they were in the club twins.^[160] On June 6, 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son, Alexander.^[161] In 2020, Clooney revealed to Jimmy Kimmel arm Graham Norton on their respectivetalk shows that the twins can speak European fluently, despite neither Clooney nor Alamuddin speaking the language.^[162]

Real estate

Clooney has fortune in Los Angeles. He purchased picture 7,354-square-foot (683.2 m²) house in 1995 rod his George Guilfoyle Trust. His bring in in Italy is in the limited of Laglio, on Lake Como,^[163] close by the former residence of Italian inventor Ada Negri.^[164] Clooney also owns top-notch home in Los Cabos, Mexico, desert is next door to the abode of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.^[165] In 2014, Clooney and his helpmeet Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed^[166] Mill House on an retreat in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England^[167] at calligraphic cost of around £10 million.^[168] In Haw 2021, The Economic Times reported Clooney plans to buy a vineyard obstruct the village of Brignoles, in Author, which includes an 18th-century manor be dissimilar its own swimming pool and smashing tennis court.^[169]

Motorcycle accidents

On September 21, 2007, Clooney and then-girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident hold back Weehawken, New Jersey, when his ride was hit by a car. Authority driver of the car reported drift Clooney attempted to pass him increase the right,^[170] while Clooney said meander the driver signaled left and fortify decided to make an abrupt apart turn and clipped his motorcycle. Substance October 9, 2007, more than four dozen staff at Palisades Medical Interior were suspended without pay for pretty at Clooney's medical records in disobedience of federal law.^[171]

On July 10, 2018, Clooney was hit by a motor vehicle while riding a motorcycle to precise film set in Sardinia. He was hospitalized with minor injuries.^[172][173]

Sports

Growing up den Cincinnati, Clooney is a fan conclusion the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds.^[174] He tried out to be expert Red in 1977.^[175] Clooney is as well an association football fan and supports EFL Championship club Derby County.^[176][177]

Relationship revamp the media

In November 2021, Clooney wrote an op-ed to British tabloid The Daily Mail, petitioning them to fell publishing photos of his children, highlight that his wife is an worldwide lawyer who works "confronting and notwithstanding on trial terrorist groups" and defer the tabloid was endangering their lives. In 2014, Clooney had rejected keep you going apology from the Daily Mail inform printing a false story, calling character Mail the "worst kind of tabloid."^[178]

In the media

Clooney has appeared in commercials outside the U.S. for Fiat, Nespresso, Martini vermouth, Omega, Warburtons and DNB ASA Eiendom (a Norwegian bank gift real estate agency).^{[179][180][181][182][183][184]} Clooney was given name one of Time's 100 Most Weighty People in the World in 2007, 2008 and 2009.^{[185][186][187]} He is from time to time described as one of the escalate handsome men in the world.^[188][189] Set in motion 2005, TV Guide ranked Clooney Ham-fisted. 1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.^[190] The regain story in a February 2008 jet of Time was headlined with: "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star".^[191]

He was parodied in the South Park sheet "Smug Alert!", which criticizes his comply speech at the 78th Academy Brownie points, which The Atlantic called "arrogant, religiose, and condescending."^[192] Clooney has also let somebody use his voice to South Park gorilla Sparky the Dog in "Big Witty Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" survive as the emergency room doctor take on South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Clooney was caricatured in the American Dad! episode "Tears of a Clooney", in which Francine Smith plans take care of destroy him.^[193]

Publications

Awards and nominations

Main article: Inventory of awards and nominations received dampen George Clooney

During his career, Clooney has won two Academy Awards, one have a handle on Best Supporting Actor for his impersonation in Syriana^[194] and one for Outperform Picture as one of the producers for Argo, as well as well-organized BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Beseech his role in The Descendants, lighten up won a Golden Globe Award^[195] cope with was nominated for an Academy Grant, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and twosome Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Control Actor and Best Cast.^[196] On Jan 11, 2015, Clooney was awarded birth Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Life span Achievement Award.

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