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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6,
1961) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his
work as an actor, he has received three Golden Globe Awards and an Academy
Award. Clooney is also noted for his social activism and has served as one of
the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.[1][2][3]
Though he made his acting debut on
television in 1978, Clooney gained fame and recognition by portraying Dr.
Douglas "Doug" Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999.
While working on ER, he started attracting a variety of leading roles in films
including Batman & Robin (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), where he first teamed
with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened
with the release of his biggest commercial success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of
a profitable film trilogy, a remake of the film from 1960 with the members of
The Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean. He made his directorial debut a
year later with the 2002 biographical thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
and has since directed Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Leatherheads (2008),
and The Ides of March (2011). He won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his work in the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005).
Clooney's humanitarian work
includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising
funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004 Tsunami and 9/11 victims, and creating
documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international
crises. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[4]
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Background Information
Born George Timothy Clooney
May 6, 1961 (1961-05-06) (age 50)
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Occupation Actor, director,
producer, screenwriter
Years active 1978–present
Spouse Talia Balsam (1989–1993)
Parents Nick Clooney
Nina Bruce (née Warren)
Relatives Rosemary Clooney (aunt)
Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer
(cousins)
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Early life
Clooney was born in Georgetown,
Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren, 1939–),[5] is a former beauty
pageant queen; his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman, as well as a
game show and American Movie Classics host. Clooney's ancestry includes Irish,
German, and English.[6] His paternal great-great-grandparents, Nicholas Clooney
(of County Kilkenny) and Bridget Byron, immigrated to the United States from
Ireland.[7] Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic.[8][9][10][11] He has an
older sister, Adelia (also known as Ada); his cousins include actors Miguel and
Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor
José Ferrer. He is also related to another singer, Debby Boone, who married his
cousin Gabriel Ferrer (son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney).
Clooney began his education at the
Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. Spending part of his
childhood in Ohio, he attended St. Michael's School in Columbus, and St. Susanna
School in Mason, Ohio. In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a
debilitating condition that partially paralyzes the face. The malady went away
within a year. "That was the worst time of my life," he told the Daily Mirror in
2003. "You know how cruel kids can be. I was mocked and taunted, but the
experience made me stronger."[12]
His parents eventually moved to
Augusta, Kentucky, where Clooney attended Augusta High School. He has stated
that he earned all As and a B in school,[13] and was an enthusiastic baseball
and basketball player. He tried out to play professional baseball with the
Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but was not offered a contract. He did not pass the
first round of player cuts.[14] He attended Northern Kentucky University from
1979 to 1981, majoring in Broadcast Journalism, and very briefly attended the
University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either.[15] He had such odd
jobs as selling men's suits and cutting tobacco.[16]
Career
Early work, 1978–94
Clooney's first role was as an
extra in the TV series Centennial in 1978. The series was based on the novel of
the same name by James Michener and was partially filmed in Clooney's hometown
of Augusta, Kentucky. Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived
sitcom E/R (not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on
which Clooney also costarred a decade later). He played a handyman on the series
The Facts of Life and appeared as Bobby Hopkins, a detective, on an episode of
The Golden Girls. His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role
in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's supervisor Booker Brooks,
followed by the role of a construction worker on Baby Talk and then as a sexy
detective on Sisters. In 1988, Clooney also played a role in Return of the
Killer Tomatoes.
Breakthrough, 1994–1999
Clooney achieved stardom when he
played Dr. Doug Ross, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah
Wyle on the hit NBC drama ER from 1994 to 1999. After leaving the series in
1999, he made a cameo appearance in the 6th season and returned for a guest spot
in the show's final season.[17]
Clooney began appearing in films
while working on ER. His first major Hollywood role was in From Dusk till Dawn,
directed by Robert Rodriguez. He followed its success with One Fine Day with
Michelle Pfeiffer and The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman. Clooney was then cast
as Batman[18] in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box
office success, but a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling the film "a
waste of money"). In 1998, he starred in Out of Sight opposite Jennifer Lopez,
marking the first of his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh. He
also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks of his contract with ER.
International success, 2000–present
After leaving ER, Clooney starred
in commercially successful projects such as The Perfect Storm and O Brother,
Where Art Thou?. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for Ocean's Eleven,
a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name. As of 2011, it was
Clooney's most commercially successful film, earning more than $450 million
worldwide.[20] The film spawned two sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve in
2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.
In 2001, Clooney and director
Steven Soderbergh co-founded the Section Eight Productions, for which Grant
Heslov was president of television. Clooney made his directorial debut in the
2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of
TV producer Chuck Barris. Though the film didn't do well at the box office,
Clooney's direction showed promise.[21]
In 2005, Clooney starred in
Syriana, which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent
Robert Baer and his memoirs of being an agent in the Middle East. Clooney
suffered an accident on the set of Syriana, which resulted in a brain injury
with complications arising from a punctured dura.[22] The same year he directed,
produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about 1950s
television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator Joseph
McCarthy. At the 2006 Academy Awards, Clooney was nominated for Best Director
and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as Best
Supporting Actor for Syriana. He became the first person in Oscar
history[citation needed] to be nominated for directing one film and acting in
another in the same year. He won the Oscar for his role in Syriana.
Clooney next appeared in The Good
German (2006), a film noir directed by Soderbergh that is set in post-World War
II Germany. Clooney also received the American Cinematheque Award in October
2006, an award that honors an artist in the entertainment industry who has made
"a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures".[23] In August 2006,
Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Pictures.
On January 22, 2008, Clooney was
nominated for an Academy Award (and many other awards) for Best Actor for his
role in Michael Clayton (2007). Clooney then directed his third film,
Leatherheads (2008), in which he also starred. It was reported on April 4, 2008,
in Variety that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America
over controversy surrounding Leatherheads. Clooney, who is the director,
producer, and star of the film, stated that he had contributed in writing, "all
but two scenes," of the film and requested a writing credit, alongside Duncan
Brantley and Rick Reilly, who had been working on the project for 17 years. In
an arbitration vote, Clooney lost 2–1 and ultimately decided to withdraw from
the union over the decision. Clooney became a "financial core status" nonmember,
meaning he loses his voting rights, and cannot run for office or attend
membership meetings, according to the WGA's constitution.[24]
Clooney next co-starred with Ewan
McGregor and Kevin Spacey in The Men Who Stare At Goats, which was directed by
Heslov and released in November 2009. Also in November 2009, he voiced Mr. Fox
in Wes Anderson's animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox. The same year, Clooney
starred in Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and then
wide-released on December 25, 2009. For his performance in the film, which was
directed by Jason Reitman, he was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors
Guild Award, BAFTA and an Academy Award.
2010 saw the release of The
American, based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and
directed by Anton Corbijn. Clooney played the lead role as well as being a
co-producer for the film.
As of 2011, Clooney is represented
by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA).[25]
2011 saw the release of The
Descendants (film) in which Clooney starred as a husband who's wife is in an
accident leaving her in a coma. He earned critical praise for his work as Matt
King and won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for
the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor. He has also been nominated for the BAFTA
Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Humanitarian work
Clooney has been active in
advocating a resolution of the Darfur conflict.[26] His efforts include
appearing on an episode of Oprah and speaking at the Save Darfur rally in
Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2006. On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter
to German chancellor Angela Merkel, calling on the European Union to take
"decisive action" in the region in the face of Omar al-Bashir's failure to
respond to the UN resolutions.[27]
In April 2006, he spent ten days in
Chad and Sudan with his father to make a film in order to show the dramatic
situation of Darfur's refugees. In September of the same year, he spoke in front
of the Security Council of the UN with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the
UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.[28] In
December, he made a trip to China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic
winners to ask both governments to pressure Sudan's government.[29]
After making his first trip to
Darfur in 2006 with his father Nick, Clooney made the TV special "A Journey to
Darfur", and advocated for action in the US. The documentary was broadcast on
American cable TV as well as in the UK and France. In 2008, it was released on
DVD with the proceeds from its sale being donated to the International Rescue
Committee.[30][31][32][33]
Clooney is involved with Not On Our
Watch, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and
prevent mass atrocities, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and
Jerry Weintraub.[34] He narrated and was co-executor producer of the documentary
Sand and Sorrow.[35] Clooney also appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now, a
call to action film for people all over the world to help stop the ongoing
crisis in Darfur. The film was released on November 2, 2007.[36] In February
2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.[37]
In January 2010, he organized the Telethon Hope for Haiti Now,[38] which
collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.
On December 13, 2007, Clooney and
fellow actor Don Cheadle were presented with the Summit Peace Award by the Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. In his acceptance speech, Clooney said that "Don
and I…stand here before you as failures. The simple truth is that when it comes
to the atrocities in Darfur…those people are not better off now than they were
years ago."[39][40] On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced Clooney's
appointment as a United Nations messenger of peace, effective from January
31.[1][2]
Clooney conceived of and, with
human rights activist and co-founder of the Enough Project John Prendergast,
initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), after an October 2010 trip to
South Sudan. SSP aims to monitor armed activity for signs of renewed civil war
between Sudan and South Sudan, and to detect and deter mass atrocities along the
border regions there.[41]
Clooney and Prendergast co-wrote a
Washington Post op-ed piece in May 2011, titled "Dancing with a dictator in
Sudan", arguing that: "President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by the
International Criminal Court for genocide, is escalating bombing and food aid
obstruction in Darfur, and he now threatens the entire north-south peace
process... the evidence shows that incentives alone are insufficient to change
Khartoum’s calculations. International support should be sought immediately for
denying debt relief, expanding the ICC indictments, diplomatically isolating the
regime, suspending all non-humanitarian aid, obstructing state-controlled bank
transactions and freezing accounts holding oil wealth diverted by senior regime
officials."[42]
Controversy
In January 2003, Clooney made a
controversial joke about the fact that Charlton Heston was suffering from
Alzheimer's, and Clooney initially refused to apologize.[13][43][43][44] While
speaking at a National Board of Review event as he accepted an award on
television, Clooney said: "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is
suffering from Alzheimer's."[45] Charlon Heston was suffering from Alzheimer's
disease at the time.[45][46] When syndicated columnist Liz Smith asked Clooney
whether he wasn't "going too far" with his remark, he responded: "I don't care.
Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves
whatever anyone says about him."[47][44]
Heston himself commented, "It just
goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation," referring to
Clooney's aunt, Rosemary Clooney.[47] Heston further commented on the Clooney
joke: "I don't know the man – never met him, never even spoken to him, but I
feel sorry for George Clooney – one day he may get Alzheimer's disease. I served
my country in World War II. I survived that – I guess I can survive some bad
words from this fellow".[48] Clooney later said, "It was a joke... They got the
quote wrong. What I said was 'The head of the NRA announced today ...'
(Filmmaker) Michael Moore had just gotten an award. Anyway, Charlton Heston
shows up with guns over his head after a school shooting and then says in the
documentary it's because of ethnic diversity that we have problems with violence
in America. I think he's going to have to take whatever hits he gets. It was
just a joke."[49] Clooney said in 2008 he subsequently apologized to Heston in a
letter, and that he received a nice response from Heston's wife.[13]
Political views
On January 16, 2006, during his
acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in
a Supporting Role for Syriana, Clooney paused to sarcastically thank disgraced
lobbyist Jack Abramoff before adding, "Who would name their kid Jack with the
word ‘off’ at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up!"[50]
Abramoff's father wrote a letter to The Desert Sun, calling Clooney's comment
"glib and ridiculous".[51] Larry King asked Clooney on CNN if he would
apologize, but Clooney declined.[51]
Clooney supported then-Senator
Barack Obama's campaign in the 2008 presidential election.[52]
Personal life
Relationships
Clooney was married to actress
Talia Balsam from 1989 until they divorced in 1993. Since then, Clooney has said
that he will never marry again.[53] After meeting on the set of a Martini
advertisement in 2000, he had a five-year on-again, off-again relationship with
British model Lisa Snowdon.[54] In June 2007, he started dating reality
personality Sarah Larson, but the couple broke up in May 2008.[55] From July
2009 to June 2011, Clooney was in a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta
Canalis.[56][57] Since July 2011, Clooney has been dating former WWE Diva Stacy
Keibler.[58]
Often featured in People magazine's
"Sexiest Man Alive" issue, Clooney's marital status and availability are a
running joke among female fans who still fantasize they have a chance to bring
him to the altar. Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Las Vegas has a "Marrying
George Clooney" photo-op in which museum visitors can put on a wedding gown and
stand next to a wax statue of the actor in a tuxedo.[59]
Homes
Clooney's main home is in Los
Angeles. He purchased the 7,354 square feet (683.2 m2) house in 1995 through his
George Guifoyle Trust. His villa in Italy is situated in the village of Laglio,
on Lake Como,[60] near the former residence of famous Italian author Ada
Negri.[61]
Motorcycle accident
On September 21, 2007, Clooney and
then-girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken,
New Jersey. Clooney's motorcycle was hit by a car. The driver of the car
reported that Clooney attempted to pass on the right,[62] while Clooney stated
that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and
clipped the motorcycle. He was treated and released from the Palisades Medical
Center in North Bergen, New Jersey.[63] On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen
hospital staff members were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney's
medical records in violation of federal law.[64] Clooney himself quickly issued
a statement on the hospital records matter, saying no one should be punished. He
said "This is the first I've heard of it. And while I very much believe in a
patient's right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without
suspending medical workers."[65]
Pets
"Max" (1987 – December 1, 2006) was
Clooney's pet Vietnamese black bristled potbellied pig, often referred to as
"Max the star" by Clooney.[66] The pig shared Clooney's Hollywood Hills home, as
well as Clooney's bed, and frequently made cameos in interviews, mostly because
of his enormous size.[67] He is often credited with saving Clooney's life by
waking him up before the Northridge earthquake on January 16, 1994.[66] In 2006,
the pig was taken for a flight in John Travolta's private jet.[68]
Max was bought by Clooney in 1988
as a gift for his then-girlfriend Kelly Preston, Travolta's current wife.[69]
The pig used to have a special cattle-pen and his own corner in the garage of
Clooney's manor.[70] Max was seriously injured in 2001 when one of Clooney's
friends accidentally ran him over with his car.[71] Weighing ca. 300 pounds
(over 130 kg), Max died in Los Angeles of natural causes, as has been stated by
Clooney's press secretary Stan Rosenfield. Because he was known to have
arthritis, and was partly blind, the animal was falsely reported to have died in
January 2005. Clooney dotingly recalls that Max would squeal every morning until
he was fed.[68] A column on Max by Clooney's father, Nick, appeared in The
Cincinnati Enquirer.[citation needed]
He also owned two bulldogs, named
Bud and Lou, after the famous comedy team Abbott and Costello. Both dogs have
died; one from a rattlesnake bite.[72][73]
In the media
Clooney is one of three people to
have been given the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" twice by People Magazine, first
in 1997 and again in 2006.[74] Clooney has appeared in commercials outside the
US for products like Fiat, Nespresso and Martini vermouth, and has lent his
voice to a series of Budweiser ads beginning in 2005.[75]
Clooney was named one of Time
magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, 2008, and
2009.[76][77][78]
South Park creators Matt Stone and
Trey Parker lampooned Clooney, among other stars, in their feature film Team
America: World Police. Clooney later said that he would have been offended if he
hadn't been made fun of in the film.[79] He was also mentioned in the South Park
episode "Smug Alert!", which mocks his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy
Awards. Clooney has also lent his voice to South Park, however, appearing in the
episode Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride as Sparky the Dog, and as the emergency
room doctor in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
Clooney was also caricatured in the
American Dad episode Tears of a Clooney, in which Francine sees her plans to
destroy Clooney materialize.
Alexander Cartio, an
Iranian-Swedish-American director of films, music videos and commercials made
his debut long feature film entitled Convincing Clooney about a Los Angeles
artist, who faced with rejection at every turn both as an actor and as the
writer of his first screenplay, comes up with his master plan to get, out of all
people, George Clooney to star in his first ever low-budget short film. The
story written by Sulo Williams, produced by Cartio and Williams and starring
Sulo Williams, Aimee Garcia, Kelly Perine, Hadley Fraser, Wilson Cruz and
Rosanna Arquette was released on November 8, 2011.[80][81]
Awards and honors
Main article: List of awards and
nominations received by George Clooney (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_George_Clooney)
Filmography
Actor
Year Title Role
1984–85 E/R Mark
"Ace" Kolmar
1985 Street Hawk Kevin Stark
1985–86 The Facts of
Life George Burnett
1987 Return to Horror High
Oliver
1987 Grizzly II: The Predator
1987 Combat Academy Maj. Biff
Woods
1987 Murder, She Wrote Kip
Howard
1987 The Golden Girls
Detective Bobby Hopkins
1988 Return of the Killer
Tomatoes Matt Stevens
1988–91 Roseanne
Booker Brooks
1990 Red Surf[citation
needed] Remar
1992 Unbecoming Age Mac
1993 The Harvest Lip Synching
Transvestite
1993–94 Sisters
Detective James Falconer
1994–99, 2009 ER Dr. Doug Ross
1995 Friends Dr. Michael
Mitchell
1996 From Dusk till Dawn Seth
Gecko
1996 One Fine Day Jack Taylor
1996 Curdled Seth Gecko
1997 Full-Tilt Boogie Himself
1997 The Peacemaker Thomas
Devoe
1997 Batman & Robin Bruce
Wayne/Batman
1997 South Park Sparky the
Dog
1998 The Thin Red Line
Captain Bosche
1998 Out of Sight Jack Foley
1998 Waiting for
Woody[citation needed] Himself
1999 Three Kings Major Archie
Gates
1999 The Book That Wrote
Itself Himself
1999 South Park: Bigger,
Longer & Uncut Doctor Gouache
1999 The Limey
2000 The Perfect Storm Billy
'Skip' Tyne
2000 Fail Safe Col. Jack
Grady
2000 O Brother, Where Art
Thou? Ulysses Everett McGill
2001 Ocean's Eleven Danny
Ocean
2001 Spy Kids Devlin
2002 Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind CIA Officer Jim Byrd
2002 Solaris Chris Kelvin
2002 Welcome to Collinwood
Jerzy
2002 Starbuck Holger
Meins[citation needed]
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
Miles Massey
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Devlin
2004 Ocean's Twelve Danny
Ocean
2005 Good Night, and Good
Luck Fred Friendly
2005 Syriana Bob Barnes
2006 The Good German Jake
Geismar
2007 Michael Clayton Michael
Clayton
2007 Darfur Now Himself
2007 Ocean's Thirteen Danny
Ocean
2008 Leatherheads Jimmy
"Dodge" Connelly
2008 Burn After Reading Harry
Pfarrer
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox Mr.
Fox
2009 The Men Who Stare at
Goats Lyn Cassady
2009 Up in the Air Ryan
Bingham
2010 The American Jack
2011 The Ides of March
Governor Mike Morris
2011 The Descendants Matt
King
2012 Gravity Matt Kowalsky
Director
Year Title
2002 Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind
2005 Good Night, and Good
Luck
2005 Unscripted
2008 Leatherheads
2011 The Ides of March
Producer
Year Title
1999 Kilroy
2000 Fail Safe
2001 Rock Star
2002 Insomnia
2002 Welcome to Collinwood
2002 Far from Heaven
2003 K Street
2004 Criminal
2005 The Jacket
2005 Unscripted
2005 The Big Empty
2005 Syriana
2005 Rumor Has It...
2006 A Scanner Darkly
2006 Pu-239
2007 Michael Clayton
2007 Sand and Sorrow
2007 Wind Chill
2008 Leatherheads
2009 The Informant!
2009 Playground
2009 The Men Who Stare at
Goats
2010 Hope for Haiti Now
2011 The Ides of March
2012 Argo
Writer
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
2008 Leatherheads
2011 The Ides of March
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