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
Tony Awards
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
The Oscars
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Daily Show
Friends
Golden Globe Awards
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
Street Hawk
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
The Flash
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
ER
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
IF
The Thin Red Line
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
The Facts of Life
Spy Kids
Despicable Me 4
Catch-22
A Very Murray Christmas
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Last Movie Stars
The Ides of March
Gravity
Bodies of Evidence
Ticket to Paradise
Tomorrowland
The Midnight Sky
Ocean's Eleven
Up in the Air
Batman & Robin
Ocean's Twelve
Solaris
Out of Sight
Wolfs
The Perfect Storm
Burn After Reading
Ocean's Thirteen
Money Monster
The Descendants
Fantastic Mr. Fox
From Dusk Till Dawn
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Intolerable Cruelty
The American
The Peacemaker
Michael Clayton
Production Credits
The Informant!
Far from Heaven
Catch-22
The American
Suburbicon
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Michael Clayton
The Boys in the Boat
The Tender Bar
Insomnia
On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Money Monster
The Art of Political Murder
Unscripted
The Agency: Central Intelligence
Argo
The Ides of March
Wolfs
August: Osage County
Trial by Media
The Midnight Sky
Ocean's Eight
Ticket to Paradise
K Street
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