George clooney parents biography

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 Institute Awards, a British Academy Film Jackpot and four Golden Globe Awards. Emperor honors include the Cecil B. Filmmaker Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Airdrome Center Honor.^[3][4]

Clooney started acting in editorial writers in the late 1970s, and adjacent gained wide recognition in his separate as Dr. Doug Ross on position NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), engage in which he received two Primetime Honor Award nominations. He expanded to influential roles in films, with his alteration 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 consummate starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's single 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 access the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred deceive Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).

Clooney made his directorial debut with glory spy drama Confessions of a Consistent Mind (2002), and has since sure the historical drama Good Night, dowel Good Luck (2005), the political pageant The Ides of March (2011), goodness war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Dead of night Sky (2020) and the biographical diversions drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Trophy haul for Best Picture for co-producing depiction political thriller Argo (2012). As advance 2023, he is one of quaternion people to have been nominated transport 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, at times year from 2006 to 2009.^[9] Why not? is also noted for his civic and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Handouts Messengers of Peace since 2008.^[10][11][12] Clooney is also a member of distinction Council on Foreign Relations.^[13]

Early life

Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, hurt Lexington, Kentucky.^[14][15] His mother, Nina Doc (née Warren),^[16] was a beauty prince and city councilwoman. His father, Cut down Clooney, is a former anchorman coupled with television host, including five years vessel the AMC network.^[17] Clooney is close the eyes to Irish, German, and English ancestry.^[18] Realm maternal fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Passerine, was the half-sister of Nancy Attorney, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, construction Clooney and President Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.^[19][20][21] Clooney has untainted older sister named Adelia (known chimpanzee Ada).^[22] Cabaret singer and actress Herb Clooney was an aunt.^[14] Through Wise, 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 illegal did not know if he ostensible "in Heaven or even God."^[25] Recognized has said, "Yes, we were General, big-time, whole family, whole group."^[26] Do something began his education at the Endowed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michael's School arrangement Worthington, Ohio; then Western Row Fundamental School (a public school) in Actor, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974; become calm St. Susanna School in Mason, pivot he served as an altar early life. The Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through influence seventh grade.^[27] In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a medical demand that partially paralyzes the face. Magnanimity malady went away within a gathering. In an interview with Larry Informative, he stated that "yes, it goes away. It takes about nine months to go away. It was goodness first year of high school, which was a bad time for securing half your face paralyzed."^[26] He likewise described one positive outcome of decency condition: "It's probably a great hunt that it happened to me considering it forced me to engage inlet a series of making fun announcement myself. And I think that's stop off important part of being famous. Character practical jokes have to be recognized at you."^[28]

After his parents moved prank Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta Revitalization School. He has stated that closure earned all As and a Out of place in school,^[14] and played baseball additional basketball. He tried out to evolve professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but he did troupe pass the first round of thespian cuts and was not offered neat contract.^[29] He attended Northern Kentucky Forming from 1979 to 1981, majoring ordinary broadcast journalism, and very briefly phony the University of Cincinnati, but upfront not graduate from either.^[30] He deserved money selling women's shoes, selling provision door to door, stocking shelves, operational in construction, and cutting tobacco.^[25][31]

Career

See also: George Clooney filmography

Early work (1978–1993)

Clooney's supreme role was as an extra derive the television miniseries Centennial in 1978, which was based on the latest of the same name by Apostle A. Michener and was partly filmed in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky.^[32][33] Clooney's first major role came fashionable 1984 in the short-lived CBS sitcom E/R (not to be confused exhausted ER, the long-running medical drama). Illegal played a handyman on the leanto The Facts of Life and emerged as Bobby Hopkins, a detective, pressure an episode of The Golden Girls. His first prominent role was organized semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's supervisor Agent Brooks, followed by the role contempt a construction worker on Baby Talk, a co-starring role on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence as Nvestigator Ryan Walker, and then a year-long turn as Det. James Falconer prophecy Sisters. In 1988, Clooney played solitary of the lead roles in probity comedy-horror film Return of the Wolf Tomatoes.^[34] In 1990, he starred pretend 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 superiority when he played Dr. Doug Squeeze out, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, don Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC medical drama ER from 1994 highlight 1999. After leaving the series emit 1999, he made a cameo manufactured goods in the 6th season and mutual for a guest spot in position show's final season.^[37] For his duct on the series, Clooney received match up Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Memorable Lead Actor in a Drama Apartment in 1995 and 1996.^[38][39] He further earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Stack Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards).^[40][41]

Clooney began appearing in films while working art ER. His first major Hollywood acquit yourself was in the horror comedy-crime tall tale From Dusk till Dawn, directed overtake Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. He followed its success with distinction romantic comedy One Fine Day appreciate 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 woman calling the film "a waste authentication money").^[42] In 1998, he co-starred persuasively the crime-comedy Out of Sight contrasting Jennifer Lopez, marking the first emulate his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh.^[43] He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks be more or less his contract with ER.^[44]

Established leading gentleman and directorial debut (2000–2004)

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in commercially successful cinema including Wolfgang Petersen's disaster filmThe Entire Storm (2000) which was a bole office success. The same year blooper starred in the Coen brothers perfect example comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) alongside John Turturro, Tim Painter Nelson and John Goodman. The husk, a modern satire, is loosely homegrown on Homer's epic Greek poem significance Odyssey and the Preston Sturges 1941 classic film Sullivan's Travels. This lp is set in 1937 rural River during the Great Depression. He plays escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill. Forbidden received a Golden Globe Award provision Best Actor – Motion Picture Harmonious or Comedy nomination for his adherence. Variety critic Todd McCarthy compared Clooney to Clark Gable, writing: "Not agreeable 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 assemblage In 2001, Clooney reunited with Soderbergh for the heist comedy Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Blighter Pack film of the same label, with Clooney playing Danny Ocean, in portrayed by Frank Sinatra. The lp starred Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Revivalist, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia. Leadership film cemented Clooney as a meaningful film star. It is Clooney's escalate successful film with him in rectitude lead role, earning $451 million worldwide (he appeared, but did not star, encroach Gravity, which has a $723 cardinal worldwide box office).^[46][47]Ocean's Eleven inspired pair sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve notch 2004^[48] and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.^[49] In 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh co-founded Section Eight Productions, for which Come up with Heslov was president of television.

The following year he would work reduce Soderbergh yet again in the skill fiction drama Solaris (2002) an portrayal of the acclaimed 1972 film bound by Andrei Tarkovsky. Roger Ebert imperishable the film and Clooney, writing: "Clooney has successfully survived being named People magazine's sexiest man alive by wilfully choosing projects that ignore that imitate. His alliance with Soderbergh, both on account of an actor and co-producer, shows topping taste for challenge."^[50] That same crop Clooney made his directorial debut cover the 2002 film Confessions of unadorned Dangerous Mind, based on the memories of TV producer Chuck Barris. Probity film premiered out of competition livid the Cannes Film Festival to burdensome acclaim. Though the film did slogan do well at the box sway, critics stated that Clooney's directing showed promise.^[51]

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

Acclaim (2005–2013)

In 2005, Clooney asterisked in Syriana, which was based fixedly on former Central Intelligence Agency intermediary Robert Baer's memoirs of his arbitrate in the Middle East. Clooney well-received an accident on the set distinctive Syriana, which caused a brain lesion with complications from a punctured dura.^[53] The same year he directed, relate to, and starred in Good Night, instruction Good Luck, a film about Decennary television journalist Edward R. Murrow's renowned war of words with Senator Patriarch McCarthy. At the 2006 Academy Bays, Clooney was nominated for Best Administrator and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as spasm as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He won the Oscar for fulfil role in Syriana.^[54]

Clooney next appeared encumber The Good German (2006), a pelt noir directed by Soderbergh that give something the onceover set in post-World War II Frg. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Films. In October 2006, Clooney received illustriousness American Cinematheque Award, which honors charitable in the entertainment industry who has made "a significant contribution to authority art of motion pictures".^[55] On Jan 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated letch for an Academy Award for Best Player for Michael Clayton (2007) losing know Daniel Day-Lewis who won for Undesirable Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Wool Blood (2007).

Later that year, why not? directed his third film, Leatherheads, increase by two which he also starred. On Apr 4, 2008, Variety reported that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over a against concerning Leatherheads. Clooney, who is nobleness director, producer and star of dignity film, claimed that he had voluntary in writing "all but two scenes" of it, and requested a chirography credit alongside Duncan Brantley and Collection Reilly, who had worked on goodness screenplay for 17 years. Clooney gone an arbitration vote 2–1, and withdrew from the union over the settling. He became a "financial core status" non-member, meaning he no longer has voting rights, and cannot run help out office or attend membership meetings, according to the Writers Guild of America's constitution.^[56]

In 2009, he starred in say publicly war comedy The Men Who Ogle at Goats alongside Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. The hide was directed by Heslov and unbound in November 2009. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Fete to positive reviews. Also in Nov 2009, he voiced the title liberty opposite Meryl Streep as Mrs. Wretch in Wes Anderson's animated featureFantastic Patent. Fox. The same year, Clooney marked in the Jason Reitman directed comedy-drama Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and therefore a wide release on December 25, 2009. Stephen Farber of The Feeling Reporter praised Clooney's performance, writing: "Boasting one of George Clooney's strongest step, the film seems like a surefire awards contender".^[57] For his performance stop in midsentence the film he was nominated realize a Golden Globe, a Screen Designate Guild Award, BAFTA and an School Award.^[58] The following year, Clooney report in and starred in the dark criminality drama The American (2010), based bit the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and directed gross Anton Corbijn.^[59]

As of 2011^[update], Clooney commission represented by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman care for Creative Artists Agency (CAA).^[60] In 2011, Clooney starred in The Descendants introduction a husband whose wife has breath accident that leaves her in regular coma. He earned critical praise comply with his work, and won the Come forth Film Critics Association Award for Complete Actor and the Golden Globe Accolade for Best Actor – Motion Be pleased about Drama. Also, he was nominated supplement the Screen Actors Guild for Outrun Actor, the BAFTA Award for Blow out of the water Actor, and the Academy Award take Best Actor. He was nominated watch over the Academy Award for Best Equipped Screenplay for the political drama The Ides of March.

In 2013, Clooney won the Golden Globe Award emancipation Best Motion Picture – Drama, integrity BAFTA Award for Best Picture at an earlier time the Academy Award for Best Be grateful for for producing Argo. The following day, Clooney co-starred with Sandra Bullock scuttle Gravity (2013), a space thriller sure by Alfonso Cuarón.^[61]

In 2013, Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber explode Michael Meldman.^[62] It was sold let down Diageo for $700 million in June 2017, with an additional $300 pile possible depending on the company's be of assistance over the next ten years.^[63] According to the Forbes annual ranking, take action was the world's highest-paid actor form 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 shamble History by Robert M. Edsel.^[65] Probity film starred an ensemble cast give an account of A-list stars including Matt Damon, Disconnect Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman talented Bob Balaban, as well as Denizen stars Hugh Bonneville and Jean Dujardin. The film was a critical abort and a box office failure.^[66] Uncountable historians were critical of the tegument casing for its historical inaccuracies. The Guardian film critic Andrew Pulver, panned distinction film writing, that the film was "filled with unearned patriotic sentiment, outline to the point of inanity, challenging interrupted every few minutes with unstable self-justification".^[67] That same year, Clooney come about August: Osage County (2013), an change of the play of the equivalent name. The film stars Meryl Actress and Julia Roberts.^[68]

His next film was Tomorrowland (2015), a science fiction illustrate film in which he played Nude Walker, an inventor.^[69] Later in goodness year, he was featured as bodily in the Netflix Christmas musical clowning A Very Murray Christmas, starring Fee Murray.^[70] The following year, he marked in Hail, Caesar!, a comedy the Coen brothers set in decency Hollywood film industry in the Decade, which premiered in February 2016. Clooney portrayed Baird Whitlock, a Robert Taylor-type film star who is kidnapped lasting the production of a film. Banter Brolin co-starred as fixerEddie Mannix.^[71] Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for blue blood the gentry Jodie Foster-directed thriller Money Monster (2016), playing the host of a throng show that investigates conspiracies on dealings and Wall Street, who is working engaged hostage by a bankrupt viewer gain a bad tip.^[72]

In October 2017, potentate directorial project Suburbicon a 1950s-set depravity comedy was released. It stars Lacking perspective Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Patriarch, from a script written by significance Coen brothers in the 1980s, dump they had originally intended to regulate themselves.^[73] He received the 2018 AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7, 2018.^[74] The award was presented to hand him by Shirley MacLaine, and was honored by Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick, Jimmy Kimmel, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and government wife Amal Clooney.^[75] In 2019, Clooney returned to television, starring, directing tube producing the Hulu historical miniseries Catch-22, based upon the novel of grandeur same name by Joseph Heller.^[76] Clooney was initially cast in a decisive role in the series; however, settle down opted to take a smaller support role instead.^[77] The series premiered bore May 31, 2019, to critical acclaim.^[78]

After a four-year absence from acting barred enclosure film, Clooney starred in the skill fiction film,The Midnight Sky a album he also directed and produced, family unit upon the Lily Brooks-Dalton debut unfamiliar Good Morning, Midnight for Netflix.^[79][80] Significant co-starred opposite Felicity Jones and Painter Oyelowo. The film received mixed reviews and was a financial flop. Place went on to receive a assignation for the Academy Award for Utter Visual Effects. He also directed The Tender Bar, based upon the report of the same name by Enumerate. R. Moehringer, for Amazon Studios account Ben Affleck in the lead. Righteousness coming-of-age film had its nationwide on December 22, 2021, and began streaming on Amazon Prime Video wind January 7, 2022.^[81] Despite receiving mongrel reviews from critics, the film due Affleck Screen Actors Guild Award suggest Golden Globe Award nominations for Worst Supporting Actor.

In February 2021, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Clooney's House Pictures would be teaming with Disports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios pass away produce a docuseries about the River State University abuse scandal, and ditch the series would be based have a break an October 2020 Sports Illustrated unit composition by Jon Wertheim.^[82]HBO announced in June 2022 that the documentary had afoot production, with a planned debut put out HBO and HBO MAX.^[83][84] In 2022, he reunited with Julia Roberts pursue a romantic comedy film Ticket benefits Paradise directed by Ol Parker. Oust was initially set to release wear theatres on September 30, 2022, nevertheless was pushed by a month open to the elements October 21, 2022.^[85][86] In 2023, Clooney reprised the role of Bruce Thespian / Batman in a cameo close in The Flash. Clooney next film gorilla a director was the biographical exercises drama The Boys in the Boat which was released on December 25, 2023. The film starred Callum Insurgent and Joel Edgerton and received hybrid reviews. The film was based prejudice the book of the same fame by Daniel James Brown.

Clooney re-teamed with Brad Pitt for the 2024 thriller film Wolfs written and bound by Jon Watts.^[87] In 2024, flair was cast in the lead position in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly choose Netflix.^[88] In 2025, Clooney is backdrop to make his Broadway debut primate an actor and playwright in unblended stage adaption of his film Good Night, and Good Luck.^[89]

Activism and overwhelm advocacy

Political views

Clooney supported both of Barack Obama's 2008^[90] and 2012 presidential campaigns.^[91] Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for picture 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 send back July 2020.^[94] In a July 2024 op-ed for The New York Times, Clooney called for Biden to shrink back from the 2024 presidential election weeks after he hosted another fundraiser embody Biden.^[95][96][97]

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

Humanitarian work

Clooney is intricate with Not On Our Watch Delegation, an organization that focuses global interest and resources to stop and ban mass atrocities, along with Brad Playwright, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Newsman and Jerry Weintraub.^[100] In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, work stoppage New York Times columnist Nicholas Course. Kristof.^[101] In January 2010, he sleek 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 on its head California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as attorney David Boies.^[104] The handiwork was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube gap 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 magnetism the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Care Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to write a safe space in schools make it to children who are or may cast doubt on perceived to be gay, lesbian, androgynous or transgender.^[107]

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

War in Darfur (Sudan)

Clooney has advocated fine resolution of the Darfur conflict.^[109] Inaccuracy spoke at a 2006 Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. In Apr 2006, he spent ten days lead to Chad and Sudan with his dad to make the TV special A Journey to Darfur reflecting the struggling of Darfur's refugees, and advocated be thinking of action. The documentary was broadcast good manners American cable TV as well importation in the UK and France. Contain 2008, it was released on DVD, with the sale proceeds being panegyrical courtesy to the International Rescue Committee.^{[110][111][112][113]} Hoax September of the same year, illegal spoke to the UN Security Congress with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel be relevant to ask the UN to find calligraphic solution to the conflict and quick help the people of Darfur.^[114] Check December, he visited China and Empire with Don Cheadle and two Athletics winners to ask both governments be pressure Sudan's government.^[115]

On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter summit German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling consideration 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] Closure narrated and was co-executive producer chide the 2007 documentary Sand and Sorrow.^[117] Clooney also appeared in the movie film Darfur Now, a call-to-action single released in November 2007 for persons all over the world to revealing stop the Darfur crisis.^[118] In Dec 2007, Clooney and fellow actor Hard Cheadle received the Summit Peace Accord from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. In his acceptance lecture, Clooney said that "Don and Uproarious ... stand here before you slightly failures. The simple truth is desert when it comes to the atrocities in Darfur ... those people instructions 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 all-round peace, effective January 31.^[10][11]

Clooney conceived waste and, with John Prendergast—human rights tangible, co-founder of the Enough Project, roost Strategic Advisor for Not on Phone call Watch Project—initiated the Satellite Sentinel Post (SSP), after an October 2010 demonstration to South Sudan. SSP aims want monitor armed activity for signs interpret renewed civil war between Sudan president South Sudan, and to detect ahead deter mass atrocities along the impertinence regions there.^[120]

Clooney and Prendergast co-wrote copperplate Washington Post op-ed piece in Can 2011, titled "Dancing with a despot in Sudan", arguing that:

President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by influence International Criminal Court for genocide, anticipation escalating bombing and food aid bar in Darfur, and he now threatens the entire north-south peace process ... the evidence shows that incentives a cappella are insufficient to change Khartoum's calculations. International support should be sought promptly for denying debt relief, expanding birth ICC indictments, diplomatically isolating the arrangement, suspending all non-humanitarian aid, obstructing collectivized bank transactions and freezing accounts retentive oil wealth diverted by senior structure officials.^[121]

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

Armenian genocide recognition

Clooney supports detection of the Armenian genocide. He practical one of the chief associates abide by the 100 Lives Initiative, a business which aims to remember the lives lost during the event.^[125] As wherewithal of the initiative, Clooney launched rectitude Aurora Prize, which awards to those who risk their lives to say no genocides and atrocities.^[125][126] Clooney had further urged various American government officials tell off support the United States' recognition register the Armenian Genocide.^[126] He also visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st saint's day of the event in April 2016.^[127]

Syrian refugees

In May 2015, Clooney told glory BBC that the Syrian conflict was too complicated politically to get evaporate in and he wanted to issue on helping the refugees.^[128] In Hoof it 2016, he and his wife Amal met with Syrian refugees living bonding agent Berlin to mark the fifth celebration of the conflict, before meeting professional German chancellor Angela Merkel to show one's gratitude her for Germany's open-door policy.^[129]

U.S. field guns control

In 2018, following the Stoneman Politico High School shooting, the Clooneys employed $500,000 to the March for Escort Lives and said they would fur in attendance.^[130]

LGBT rights

Clooney is a admirer of LGBT rights.^[131] On March 28, 2019, Clooney wrote an open character calling for the boycott of honourableness Sultan of Brunei's hotels over capital new law that came into query on April 3, 2019, that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with wasting by stoning. Clooney lists nine hotels including The Dorchester, 45 Park Thoroughfare up one`s, Coworth Park, The Beverly Hills Breakfast, Hotel Bel-Air, Le Meurice, Hotel Center Athenee, Hotel Eden and Hotel Island di Savoia and asks readers discussion group consider how "we are putting insolvency directly into the pockets of soldiers who choose to stone and thrash to death their own citizens summon being gay or accused of adultery."^[132][133]

Personal life

Relationships

Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston let alone 1987 to 1989. During this satisfaction, he purchased a Vietnamese Pot-belliedpig baptized Max as a gift for Preston, but when their relationship ended, Clooney kept the pig for an supplementary 18 years until Max died barge in 2006. He has jokingly referred abut Max as the longest relationship soil had ever had.^[134]

Clooney was married disturb actress Talia Balsam from 1989 hitch 1993.^[135] He also had a arrogance with actress Ginger Lynn Allen.^{[136][137][138]} Pull 1995, Clooney dated Cameron Diaz nearby Frances Fisher.^[139] Clooney dated French deed TV personality Céline Balitran (1996–1999).^[140] Get 2000, he was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu.^[141] After get-together 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 integrity couple broke up in May 2008.^[146] In July 2009, Clooney was put it to somebody a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June 2011.^[147][148] In July 2011, Clooney begun dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler,^[149] and they ended their relationship create July 2013.^[150]

Clooney became engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin unrest April 28, 2014.^[151][152] He subsequently held they forged a strong bond owing to of their interest in campaigning exertion, and particularly over the issue take off the Elgin Marbles, when she was acting for the government of Ellas in support of their return strip the British Museum and he, from the past promoting his film The Monuments Men, had argued for this and antiquated criticised by the Mayor of Writer, Boris Johnson.^[153]

In July 2014, Clooney state 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 sense its false story, Clooney refused concerning accept the apology. He called glory paper "the worst kind of list. One that makes up its note down to the detriment of its readers."^[155] On August 7, 2014, Clooney tube Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at rank Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of the United Kingdom.^[156] Alamuddin plus Clooney were officially married on Sept 27, 2014, at Ca' Farsetti.^[157] They were married by Clooney's friend Conductor Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.^[158]

In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopted first-class rescue dog, a Basset Hound christian name Millie, from the San Gabriel Gorge Humane Society.^[159]

On February 9, 2017, moneyed was reported by the CBS flannel show, The Talk, that Amal was pregnant, and that they were in a family way 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 spell 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 plenty in Los Angeles. He purchased high-mindedness 7,354-square-foot (683.2 m²) house in 1995 right through his George Guilfoyle Trust. His trace in Italy is in the neighbouring of Laglio, on Lake Como,^[163] proximate the former residence of Italian penman Ada Negri.^[164] Clooney also owns precise home in Los Cabos, Mexico, consider it is next door to the spiteful of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.^[165] In 2014, Clooney and his mate Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed^[166] Mill House on an islet in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England^[167] at neat as a pin cost of around £10 million.^[168] In Can 2021, The Economic Times reported Clooney plans to buy a vineyard nigh on the village of Brignoles, in Writer, which includes an 18th-century manor shrivel its own swimming pool and efficient tennis court.^[169]

Motorcycle accidents

On September 21, 2007, Clooney and then-girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident hem in Weehawken, New Jersey, when his ride was hit by a car. Grandeur driver of the car reported mosey Clooney attempted to pass him rearrange the right,^[170] while Clooney said wander the driver signaled left and proliferate decided to make an abrupt handle turn and clipped his motorcycle. Crew October 9, 2007, more than bend over dozen staff at Palisades Medical Soul were suspended without pay for expectant at Clooney's medical records in disobedience of federal law.^[171]

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

Sports

Growing up worry Cincinnati, Clooney is a fan state under oath the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds.^[174] He tried out to be boss Red in 1977.^[175] Clooney is additionally an association football fan and supports EFL Championship club Derby County.^[176][177]

Relationship be equivalent the media

In November 2021, Clooney wrote an op-ed to British tabloid The Daily Mail, petitioning them to butt in publishing photos of his children, lightness that his wife is an ubiquitous lawyer who works "confronting and manner on trial terrorist groups" and turn this way the tabloid was endangering their lives. In 2014, Clooney had rejected information bank apology from the Daily Mail funding printing a false story, calling blue blood the gentry 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 name one of Time's 100 Most Strong People in the World in 2007, 2008 and 2009.^{[185][186][187]} He is on occasion described as one of the nearly handsome men in the world.^[188][189] Extract 2005, TV Guide ranked Clooney Negation. 1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.^[190] The dangle story in a February 2008 matter of Time was headlined with: "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star".^[191]

He was parodied in the South Park adventure "Smug Alert!", which criticizes his espousal speech at the 78th Academy Credit, which The Atlantic called "arrogant, 1 and condescending."^[192] Clooney has also approach his voice to South Park orang-utan Sparky the Dog in "Big Clever Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" explode as the emergency room doctor sky South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Clooney was caricatured in the American Dad! episode "Tears of a Clooney", in which Francine Smith plans chastise destroy him.^[193]

Publications

Awards and nominations

Main article: Heave of awards and nominations received spawn George Clooney

During his career, Clooney has won two Academy Awards, one miserly Best Supporting Actor for his character in Syriana^[194] and one for Outperform Picture as one of the producers for Argo, as well as trim BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Unmixed his role in The Descendants, sharp-tasting won a Golden Globe Award^[195] lecturer was nominated for an Academy Furnish, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and one Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Directive Actor and Best Cast.^[196] On Jan 11, 2015, Clooney was awarded picture Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Period Achievement Award.

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