
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?

Comic Relief

Downton Abbey

The Golden Girls

My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman

The Flash

The Oscars

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes

ER

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

IF

The Thin Red Line

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Spy Kids

The Facts of Life

Despicable Me 4

Catch-22

The Last Movie Stars

A Very Murray Christmas

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Gravity

Bodies of Evidence

Tomorrowland

Ticket to Paradise

The Ides of March

Out of Sight

The Perfect Storm

Intolerable Cruelty

The Descendants

Up in the Air

Solaris

Ocean's Thirteen

From Dusk Till Dawn

Ocean's Eleven

The Midnight Sky

Ocean's Twelve

Batman & Robin

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Money Monster

Michael Clayton

Burn After Reading

The American

Wolfs

The Peacemaker
Production Credits

Catch-22

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

Ticket to Paradise

Unscripted

The Boys in the Boat

The Informant!

The Midnight Sky

The Art of Political Murder

Argo

Suburbicon

August: Osage County

Michael Clayton

Ocean's Eight

Money Monster

The Ides of March

The Agency: Central Intelligence

Trial by Media

The American

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Wolfs

K Street

Insomnia

Far from Heaven

The Tender Bar
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