George Clooney

Known for ActingBorn 1961-05-06 (age 65)Lexington, Kentucky, USA

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. His honours include the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2022. Clooney's breakthrough role came as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He established himself as a film star with roles in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a CIA officer in Syriana (2005). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air(2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Jay Kelly (2025). Clooney has directed nine feature films, including the spy film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002), the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March(2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the coming-of-age film The Tender Bar (2021) starring BenAffleck. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). He made his Broadway debut portraying Edward R. Murrow in the play adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck (2025), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.\n\nClooney 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 served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has been married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney since 2014, with whom he has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Clooney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

JFK: One PM Central Standard Time

The Frame

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Inside 'Out of Sight'

Ein Herz für Kinder

Henry David Thoreau

The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship -- A Special Edition of 20/20

A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty

Sunset Beat

Playground

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Unscripted

Friends

South Park

Bodies of Evidence

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

MTV Movie & TV Awards

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Inside Look: Down from the Mountain

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

Trump @War

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten

Jack's Place

Fantastic Mr. Fox

'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con

ER

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

The Coen Brothers

Surviving Ohio State

Poker Face

Good Night, and Good Luck

Catch-22

The Boys in the Boat

Ocean's Eleven

Live 8

The Golden Girls

The Thin Red Line

Argo

Trial by Media

The Big Empty

Murder, She Wrote

Gravity

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Agency

Fahrenheit 11/9

The Graham Norton Show

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut