George Clooney
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Biography
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.
Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), 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 his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana(2005) and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).
Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and has since directed the historical drama Good Night and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Known For
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
The Graham Norton Show
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Daily Show
Friends
Real Time with Bill Maher
Poker Face
Saturday Night Live
Parkinson
Today
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Kennedy Center Honors
Roseanne
Entertainment Tonight
Hunter
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Celebrities Uncensored
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
100 Years of Warner Bros.
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Biography
Murphy Brown
South Park
Crazy like a Fox
E/R
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Downton Abbey
Comic Relief
The Golden Girls
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
The Flash
The Oscars
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
ER
IF
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
The Thin Red Line
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
The Facts of Life
Spy Kids
Despicable Me 4
Catch-22
The Last Movie Stars
A Very Murray Christmas
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Ides of March
Tomorrowland
Gravity
Ticket to Paradise
Bodies of Evidence
Burn After Reading
Wolfs
Out of Sight
Up in the Air
Solaris
Money Monster
Batman & Robin
Ocean's Eleven
The American
The Descendants
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ocean's Twelve
The Midnight Sky
The Perfect Storm
Ocean's Thirteen
Intolerable Cruelty
Michael Clayton
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Peacemaker
Production Credits
The Ides of March
Argo
Unscripted
Far from Heaven
Trial by Media
Money Monster
K Street
Suburbicon
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Agency: Central Intelligence
Michael Clayton
The American
Insomnia
August: Osage County
Ticket to Paradise
The Tender Bar
The Boys in the Boat
Wolfs
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
The Art of Political Murder
Catch-22
Ocean's Eight
The Informant!
The Midnight Sky
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