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George Clooney

January 13, 2023

George Timothy Clooney[2] (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards, one for his acting and the other as a producer. In 2018, he was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award,[3] and in 2022, he was felicitated at the Kennedy Center Honors for a "lifetime of contributions to American culture."[4]

George Clooney
Clooney in 2016
Born
George Timothy Clooney

(1961-05-06) May 6, 1961 (age 61)
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Alma materNorthern Kentucky University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1978–present
Organizations
WorksFilmography
Political partyDemocratic[1]
Spouses
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    (m. 1989; div. 1993)​
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    (m. 2014)​
Children2
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Relatives
AwardsFull list

Clooney started his career in television, gaining wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 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).[5][6] This led to starring roles in the superhero film Batman & Robin (1997), Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), David O. Russell's Three Kings, and the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came for his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007.

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), and the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020). 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 received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo (2012). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Ticket to Paradise (2022).

As of 2022, Clooney is one of three people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories, a position shared with Walt Disney and Alfonso Cuarón.[7][8] 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.[9] He is also noted for his political and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008.[10][11][12] Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[13] He is married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.

Early life

Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky.[14][15] His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren),[16] was a beauty queen and city councilwoman. His father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman and television host, including five years on the AMC network.[17] Clooney is of Irish, German, and English ancestry.[18] His maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, making Clooney and Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.[19][20][21] Clooney has an older sister named Adelia (known as Ada).[22] Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was an aunt.[14] Through Rosemary, 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 he did not know if he believed "in Heaven, or even God."[25] He has said, "Yes, we were Catholic, big-time, whole family, whole group."[26] He began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michael's School in Worthington, Ohio; then Western Row Elementary School (a public school) in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974; and St. Susanna School in Mason, where he served as an altar boy. The Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade.[27] In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a medical condition that partially paralyzes the face. The malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that "yes, it goes away. It takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of high school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed."[26] He also described one positive outcome of the condition: "It's probably a great thing that it happened to me because it forced me to engage in a series of making fun of myself. And I think that's an important part of being famous. The practical jokes have to be aimed at you."[28]

After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School. He has stated that he earned all As and a B in school,[14] and played baseball and basketball. He tried out to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but he did not pass the first round of player cuts and was not offered a contract.[29] 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.[30] He earned money selling women's shoes, insurance door to door, stocking shelves, working in construction, and cutting tobacco.[25][31]

Career

See also: George Clooney filmography

Early work (1978–1993)

 
Clooney in 1995

Clooney's first role was as an extra in the television mini-series Centennial in 1978, which was based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener and was partly filmed in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky.[32][33] Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived CBS sitcom E/R (not to be confused with ER, the long-running medical drama). 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 prominent role 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, a co-starring role on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence as Detective Ryan Walker, and then a year-long turn as Det. James Falconer on Sisters. In 1988, Clooney played one of the lead roles in the comedy-horror film Return of the Killer Tomatoes.[34] In 1990, he starred in 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 fame when he played Dr. Doug Ross, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wyle, on the hit NBC medical 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.[37] For his work on the series, Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1995 and 1996.[38][39] He also earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards).[40][41]

Clooney began appearing in films while working on ER. His first major Hollywood role was in the horror comedy-crime thriller From Dusk till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. He followed its success with the romantic comedy One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer, and the action-thriller The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman. Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a modest box office performer, but a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling the film "a waste of money").[42] In 1998, he co-starred in the crime-comedy Out of Sight opposite Jennifer Lopez, marking the first of his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh.[43] He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks of his contract with ER.[44]

Established leading man (2000–2004)

 
Brad Pitt, Clooney, and Matt Damon in 2001 promoting Ocean's 11 in Turkey

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in commercially successful films including Wolfgang Petersen's disaster film The Perfect Storm (2000) which was a box office success. The same year he starred in the Coen brothers adventure comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) alongside John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman. The film, a modern satire, is loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem the Odyssey and the Preston Sturges 1941 classic film Sullivan's Travels. This film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. He plays escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination for his performance. Variety film critic Todd McCarthy compared Clooney to Clark Gable writing, "Not for the first time recalling Clark Gable in his looks and line delivery, Clooney clearly delights in embellishing Everett’s vanity and in delivering the Coens’ carefully calibrated, high-toned dialogue".[45]

The following year In 2001, Clooney reunited with Soderbergh for the heist comedy Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name, with Clooney playing Danny Ocean, originally portrayed by Frank Sinatra. The film starred Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, and Andy Garcia. The film cemented Clooney as a leading film star. It is Clooney's most successful film with him in the lead role, earning $451 million worldwide (he appeared, but did not star, in Gravity, which has a $723 million worldwide box office).[46][47] Ocean's Eleven inspired two sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve in 2004[48] and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.[49] In 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh co-founded Section Eight Productions, for which Grant Heslov was president of television.

The following year he would work with Soderbergh yet again in the science fiction drama Solaris (2002) an adaptation of the acclaimed 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Famed critic Roger Ebert praised the film and Clooney writing, "Clooney has successfully survived being named People magazine's sexiest man alive by deliberately choosing projects that ignore that image. His alliance with Soderbergh, both as an actor and co-producer, shows a taste for challenge."[50] That same year Clooney made his directorial debut in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris. The film premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. Though the film did not do well at the box office, critics stated that Clooney's directing showed promise.[51]

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

Directorial debut and acclaim (2005–2013)

 
Clooney attending the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana, which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer's memoirs of his service in the Middle East. Clooney suffered an accident on the set of Syriana, which caused a brain injury with complications from a punctured dura.[53] 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 won the Oscar for his role in Syriana.[54]

Clooney next appeared in The Good German (2006), a film noir directed by Soderbergh that is set in post-World War II Germany. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Pictures. In October 2006, Clooney received the American Cinematheque Award, which honors someone in the entertainment industry who has made "a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures".[55] On January 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Michael Clayton (2007) losing to Daniel Day-Lewis who won for Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood (2007).

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

In 2009, he starred in the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats alongside Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Heslov and released in November 2009. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival to positive reviews. Also in November 2009, he voiced the title character opposite Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox in Wes Anderson's animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox. The same year, Clooney starred in the Jason Reitman directed comedy-drama Up in the Air, which was initially given limited release, and then wide-released on December 25, 2009. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter praised Clooney's performance writing, "Boasting one of George Clooney’s strongest performances, the film seems like a surefire awards contender".[57] For his performance in the film he was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and an Academy Award.[58] The following year Clooney produced and starred in the dark crime drama The American (2010), based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and directed by Anton Corbijn.[59]

As of 2011, Clooney is represented by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA).[60] In 2011 Clooney starred in The Descendants as a husband whose wife has an accident that leaves her in a coma. He earned critical praise for his work, and won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Also, he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, and the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the political drama The Ides of March. In 2013, Clooney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Argo. The following year Clooney co-starred with Sandra Bullock in Gravity (2013), a space thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón.[61]

In 2013, Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman.[62] It was sold to Diageo for $700 million in June 2017, with an additional $300 million possible depending on the company's performance over the next ten years.[63] According to Forbes annual ranking, he was the world's highest-paid actor for 2017–2018, earning $239 million between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018.[64]

Career slump and resurgence (2014–present)

In 2014, He co-wrote, directed and starred in The Monuments Men, an adaption of The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel.[65] The film starred an ensemble cast of A-list stars including Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, and Bob Balaban as well as European stars Hugh Bonneville, and Jean Dujardin. The film was a critical misfire and a box office failure.[66] Many historians were critical of the film for its historical inaccuracies. The Guardian film critic Andrew Pulver, panned the film writing, that the film was "filled with unearned patriotic sentiment, sketchy to the point of inanity, and interrupted every few minutes with neurotic self-justification".[67] That same year Clooney produced August: Osage County (2013), an adaptation of the play of the same name. The film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.[68]

His next film was Tomorrowland (2015), a science fiction adventure film in which he played Frank Walker, an inventor.[69] Later in the year, he was featured as himself in the Netflix Christmas musical comedy A Very Murray Christmas, starring Bill Murray.[70] The following year he starred in Hail, Caesar!, a comedy from the Coen brothers set in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, which premiered in February 2016. Clooney portrayed Baird Whitlock, a Robert Taylor-type film star who is kidnapped during the production of a film. Josh Brolin co-starred as fixer Eddie Mannix.[71] Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for the Jodie Foster-directed thriller Money Monster (2016), playing the host of a television show that investigates conspiracies on commerce and Wall Street, who is taken hostage by a bankrupt viewer given a bad tip.[72] In October 2017, his directorial project Suburbicon a 1950s-set crime comedy was released. It stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac, from a script written by the Coen brothers in the 1980s, that they had originally intended to direct themselves.[73] He received the 2018 AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7, 2018.[74] The award was presented to him by Shirley MacLaine, and was honored by Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick, Jimmy Kimmel, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and his wife Amal Clooney.[75]

 
Clooney with President Barack Obama in 2016

In 2019, Clooney returned to television, starring, directing, and producing the Hulu historical miniseries Catch-22 based upon the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller.[76] Clooney was initially cast in a main role in the series; however, he opted to take a smaller supporting role instead.[77] The series premiered on May 31, 2019, to critical acclaim.[78]

After a four year absence from acting in film Clooney starred in the science fiction film,The Midnight Sky a film he also directed, and produced based upon the Lily Brooks-Dalton debut novel, Good Morning, Midnight, for Netflix.[79][80] He also directs The Tender Bar adaptation for Amazon Studios with Ben Affleck in the lead. It will have a limited release in Los Angeles and New York theatres on December 17, 2021, followed by a nationwide premiere on December 22, 2021. The coming-of-age film will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video from January 7, 2022.[81]

In February 2021, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures would be teaming with Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios to produce a docuseries about the Ohio State University abuse scandal, and that the series would be based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated article by Jon Wertheim.[82]

In September 2021, Clooney reteamed with Brad Pitt for an untitled thriller film written and directed by Jon Watts.[83]

In 2022, he reunited with Julia Roberts for a romantic comedy film Ticket to Paradise directed by Ol Parker. It was initially set to release in theatres on September 30, 2022, but was pushed by a month to October 21, 2022.[84][85]

Activism and public advocacy

Political views

Clooney supported both of Barack Obama's 2008[86] and 2012 presidential campaigns.[87] Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election.[88] Clooney endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election,[89] and he hosted a virtual fundraiser for Biden together with Obama on July 28, 2020.[90]

He has also made humorous statements against Republican Party figures. In 2006, Clooney sarcastically thanked Jack Abramoff at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards before concluding with "Who would name their kid 'Jack' with 'off' at the end? No wonder the guy's screwed up".[91] Clooney has also described Republican donor Steve Wynn as an "asshole" and a "jackass", after the two had a heated disagreement over the Affordable Care Act.[92]

Humanitarian work

 
Clooney in Abéché, Chad, in January 2008 with the United Nations

Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch Project, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub.[93] In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof.[94] In January 2010, he organized the telethon Hope for Haiti Now,[95] which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.[96]

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 overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as attorney David Boies.[97] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[98][99] In September 2012, Clooney offered to take an auction winner out to lunch to benefit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to create a safe space in schools for children who are or may be perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.[100]

On August 7, 2020, George and Amal Clooney donated $100,000 to three Lebanese charities after the capital, Beirut, was left devastated by a deadly explosion. They donated money to the Lebanese Red Cross, Impact Lebanon, and Baytna Baytak. The blast claimed the lives of at least 145 people and injured more than 5,000.[101]

Darfur

 
Clooney discusses Sudan with President Barack Obama at the White House in October 2010.
 
Clooney with Vice President Joe Biden in 2009

Clooney has advocated a resolution of the Darfur conflict.[102] He spoke at a 2006 Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. In April 2006, he spent ten days in Chad and Sudan with his father to make the TV special "A Journey to Darfur" reflecting the situation of Darfur's refugees, and advocated for action. 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 sale proceeds being donated to the International Rescue Committee.[103][104][105][106] In September of the same year, he spoke to the UN Security Council with Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur.[107] In December, he visited China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic winners to ask both governments to pressure Sudan's government.[108]

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 given the failure of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir to respond to UN resolutions.[109] He narrated and was co-executive producer of the 2007 documentary Sand and Sorrow.[110] Clooney also appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now, a call-to-action film released in November 2007 for people all over the world to help stop the Darfur crisis.[111] In December 2007, Clooney and fellow actor Don Cheadle received the Summit Peace Award from 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."[112] On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced Clooney's appointment as a UN messenger of peace, effective January 31.[10][11]

Clooney conceived of and, with John Prendergast – human rights activist, co-founder of the Enough Project, and Strategic Advisor for Not on Our Watch Project – 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.[113]

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.[114]

On March 16, 2012, Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy for civil disobedience.[115][116] He intended to be arrested when he planned the protest.[116] Several other prominent participants were also arrested, including Martin Luther King III.[116] Clooney has been described as one of the most strident critics of Omar al-Bashir.[117]

Armenian genocide

Clooney supports the recognition of the Armenian genocide. He is one of the chief associates of the 100 Lives Initiative, a project which aims to remember the lives lost during the event.[118] As part of the initiative, Clooney launched the Aurora Prize, which awards to those who risk their lives to prevent genocides and atrocities.[118][119] Clooney had also urged various American government officials to support the United States' recognition of the Armenian Genocide.[119] Clooney visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the event in April 2016.[120]

Syria

In May 2015, Clooney told the BBC that the Syrian conflict was too complicated politically to get involved in and he wanted to focus on helping the refugees.[121] In March 2016, he and his wife, Amal Clooney, met with Syrian refugees living in Berlin to mark the fifth anniversary of the conflict, before meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to thank her for Germany's open-door policy.[122]

Gun control

In 2018, following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the Clooneys pledged $500,000 to the March for Our Lives and said they would be in attendance.[123]

LGBT rights

Clooney is a supporter of gay rights.[124] On March 28, 2019, Clooney wrote an open letter calling for the boycott of the Sultan of Brunei's hotels over a new law that came into force on April 3, 2019, that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning. Clooney lists nine hotels including The Dorchester, 45 Park Lane, Coworth Park, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air, Le Meurice, Hotel Plaza Athenee, Hotel Eden and Hotel Principe di Savoia and asks readers to consider how "we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery."[125][126]

Personal life

Relationships

 
Clooney and Alamuddin at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in 2016

Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston (1987–1989). During this relationship, he purchased a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig named Max as a gift for Preston, but when their relationship ended, Clooney kept the pig for an additional 18 years until Max died in 2006. He has jokingly referred to Max as the longest relationship he had ever had.[127]

Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993.[128] He also had a relationship with actress Ginger Lynn Allen.[129][130][131] In 1995, Clooney dated Cameron Diaz and Frances Fisher.[132] Clooney dated French reality TV personality Céline Balitran (1996–1999).[133] In 2000 he was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu.[134] After meeting British model Lisa Snowdon in 2000, he had a five-year on-again, off-again relationship with her.[135] Clooney dated Renée Zellweger (2001), Jennifer Siebel Newsom (2002),[136] Krista Allen (2002–2008),[137] and Linda Thompson (2006).[138] In June 2007, he started dating reality personality Sarah Larson, but the couple broke up in May 2008.[139] In July 2009, Clooney was in a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June 2011.[140][141] In July 2011, Clooney started dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler,[142] and they ended their relationship in July 2013.[143]

Clooney became engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on April 28, 2014.[144][145] He subsequently said they forged a strong bond because of their interest in campaigning work, and particularly over the issue of the Elgin Marbles, when she was acting for the government of Greece in support of their return from the British Museum and he, while promoting his film The Monuments Men, had argued for this and been criticised by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.[146]

In July 2014, Clooney publicly mocked the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail after it claimed his fiancée's mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds.[147] When the tabloid apologized for its false story, Clooney refused to accept the apology. He called the paper "the worst kind of tabloid. One that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers."[148] On August 7, 2014, Clooney and Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of the United Kingdom.[149] Alamuddin and Clooney were officially married on September 27, 2014, at Ca' Farsetti.[150] They were married by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.[151]

In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopted a rescue dog, a Bassett Hound named Millie, from the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society.[152]

On February 9, 2017, it was reported by the CBS talk show, The Talk, that Amal was pregnant, and that they were expecting twins.[153] On June 6, 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son, Alexander.[154] In 2020, Clooney revealed to Jimmy Kimmel and Graham Norton in their respective talk shows that the twins can speak Italian fluently, despite both Clooney and Alamuddin not speaking the language.[155]

Real estate

Clooney has property in Los Angeles. He purchased the 7,354-square-foot (683.2 m2) house in 1995 through his George Guilfoyle Trust. His home in Italy is in the village of Laglio, on Lake Como,[156] near the former residence of Italian author Ada Negri.[157] Clooney also owns a home in Los Cabos, Mexico, that is next door to the home of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.[158] In 2014, Clooney and his new British wife Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed[159] Mill House on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England[160] at a cost of around £10 million.[161] In May 2021, The Economic Times reported Clooney plans to buy a vineyard near the village of Brignoles, in France, which includes an 18th-century manor with its own swimming pool and a tennis court.[162]

Motorcycle accidents

On September 21, 2007, Clooney and then-girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey, when his motorcycle was hit by a car. The driver of the car reported that Clooney attempted to pass him on the right,[163] while Clooney said that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped his motorcycle. On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen staff at Palisades Medical Center were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney's medical records in violation of federal law.[164]

On July 10, 2018, Clooney was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle to a film set in Sardinia. He was hospitalized with minor injuries.[165][166]

Sports

Growing up around Cincinnati, Clooney is a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds.[167] He tried out to be a Red in 1977.[168] Clooney is also an association football fan and supports EFL League One club Derby County F.C.[169][170]

Relationship with the media

In November 2021, Clooney wrote an op-ed to British tabloid The Daily Mail, petitioning them to stop publishing photos of his children, highlighting that his wife is an international lawyer who works "confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups" and that the tabloid was endangering their lives. In 2014, Clooney had rejected an apology from the Daily Mail for printing a false story, calling the Mail, the "worst kind of tabloid."[171]

In the media

Clooney has appeared in commercials outside the U.S. for Fiat, Nespresso, Martini vermouth, Omega, and Warburtons.[172][173][174][175][176] Clooney was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, 2008, and 2009.[177][178][179] He is sometimes described as one of the most handsome men in the world.[180][181] In 2005, TV Guide ranked Clooney No. 1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.[182] The cover story in a February 2008 issue of Time magazine was headlined with: "George Clooney: The last movie star".[183]

He was parodied in the South Park episode "Smug Alert!", which criticizes his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards.[citation needed] Clooney has also lent his voice to South Park as Sparky the Dog in "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" and as the emergency room doctor in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Clooney was caricatured in the American Dad! episode "Tears of a Clooney", in which Francine Smith plans to destroy him.[184]

Director Alexander Cartio made his debut feature film, Convincing Clooney, about a Los Angeles artist who, faced with rejection as an actor and screenwriter, concocts a master plan to get Clooney to star in his first-ever low-budget short film. The movie was released on DVD in November 2011.[185]

Publications

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney

Throughout his career, Clooney has won two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Syriana[186] and one for Best Picture as one of the producers for Argo, as well as a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. For his role in The Descendants, he won a Golden Globe Award[187] and was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Lead Actor and Best Cast.[188] On January 11, 2015, Clooney was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

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George Timothy Clooney 2 born May 6 1961 is an American actor and filmmaker He is the recipient of numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award four Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards one for his acting and the other as a producer In 2018 he was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award 3 and in 2022 he was felicitated at the Kennedy Center Honors for a lifetime of contributions to American culture 4 George ClooneyClooney in 2016BornGeorge Timothy Clooney 1961 05 06 May 6 1961 age 61 Lexington Kentucky U S Alma materNorthern Kentucky UniversityOccupationsActordirectorproducerscreenwriterYears active1978 presentOrganizationsSmokehouse PicturesCasamigosWorksFilmographyPolitical partyDemocratic 1 SpousesTalia Balsam m 1989 div 1993 wbr Amal Alamuddin m 2014 wbr Children2ParentNick Clooney father RelativesRosemary Clooney aunt Miguel Ferrer cousin Betty Clooney aunt Tessa Ferrer cousin AwardsFull listClooney started his career in television gaining wide recognition in his role as Dr Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 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 5 6 This led to starring roles in the superhero film Batman amp Robin 1997 Steven Soderbergh s Out of Sight 1998 David O Russell s Three Kings and the Coen brothers O Brother Where Art Thou 2000 Greater stardom came for his starring role in Soderbergh s Ocean s film series from 2001 to 2007 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 and the science fiction film The Midnight Sky 2020 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 received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo 2012 He has also starred in Burn After Reading 2008 The American 2010 Gravity 2013 Hail Caesar 2016 and Ticket to Paradise 2022 As of 2022 Clooney is one of three people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories a position shared with Walt Disney and Alfonso Cuaron 7 8 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 9 He is also noted for his political and economic activism and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008 10 11 12 Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations 13 He is married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early work 1978 1993 2 2 Breakthrough and stardom 1994 1999 2 3 Established leading man 2000 2004 2 4 Directorial debut and acclaim 2005 2013 2 5 Career slump and resurgence 2014 present 3 Activism and public advocacy 3 1 Political views 3 2 Humanitarian work 3 3 Darfur 3 4 Armenian genocide 3 5 Syria 3 6 Gun control 3 7 LGBT rights 4 Personal life 4 1 Relationships 4 2 Real estate 4 3 Motorcycle accidents 4 4 Sports 4 5 Relationship with the media 5 In the media 6 Publications 7 Awards and nominations 8 References 9 External linksEarly lifeClooney was born on May 6 1961 in Lexington Kentucky 14 15 His mother Nina Bruce nee Warren 16 was a beauty queen and city councilwoman His father Nick Clooney is a former anchorman and television host including five years on the AMC network 17 Clooney is of Irish German and English ancestry 18 His maternal great great great great grandmother Mary Ann Sparrow was the half sister of Nancy Lincoln mother of President Abraham Lincoln making Clooney and Lincoln half first cousins five times removed 19 20 21 Clooney has an older sister named Adelia known as Ada 22 Cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was an aunt 14 Through Rosemary 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 he did not know if he believed in Heaven or even God 25 He has said Yes we were Catholic big time whole family whole group 26 He began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell Kentucky He attended St Michael s School in Worthington Ohio then Western Row Elementary School a public school in Mason Ohio from 1968 to 1974 and St Susanna School in Mason where he served as an altar boy The Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade 27 In middle school Clooney developed Bell s palsy a medical condition that partially paralyzes the face The malady went away within a year In an interview with Larry King he stated that yes it goes away It takes about nine months to go away It was the first year of high school which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed 26 He also described one positive outcome of the condition It s probably a great thing that it happened to me because it forced me to engage in a series of making fun of myself And I think that s an important part of being famous The practical jokes have to be aimed at you 28 After his parents moved to Augusta Kentucky Clooney attended Augusta High School He has stated that he earned all As and a B in school 14 and played baseball and basketball He tried out to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 but he did not pass the first round of player cuts and was not offered a contract 29 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 30 He earned money selling women s shoes insurance door to door stocking shelves working in construction and cutting tobacco 25 31 CareerSee also George Clooney filmography Early work 1978 1993 Clooney in 1995 Clooney s first role was as an extra in the television mini series Centennial in 1978 which was based on the novel of the same name by James A Michener and was partly filmed in Clooney s hometown of Augusta Kentucky 32 33 Clooney s first major role came in 1984 in the short lived CBS sitcom E R not to be confused with ER the long running medical drama 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 prominent role 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 a co starring role on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence as Detective Ryan Walker and then a year long turn as Det James Falconer on Sisters In 1988 Clooney played one of the lead roles in the comedy horror film Return of the Killer Tomatoes 34 In 1990 he starred in 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 fame when he played Dr Doug Ross alongside Anthony Edwards Julianna Margulies and Noah Wyle on the hit NBC medical 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 37 For his work on the series Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1995 and 1996 38 39 He also earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor Television Series Drama in 1995 1996 and 1997 losing to co star Anthony Edwards 40 41 Clooney began appearing in films while working on ER His first major Hollywood role was in the horror comedy crime thriller From Dusk till Dawn directed by Robert Rodriguez and co starring Harvey Keitel He followed its success with the romantic comedy One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and the action thriller The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher s Batman amp Robin which was a modest box office performer but a critical failure with Clooney himself calling the film a waste of money 42 In 1998 he co starred in the crime comedy Out of Sight opposite Jennifer Lopez marking the first of his many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh 43 He also starred in Three Kings during the last weeks of his contract with ER 44 Established leading man 2000 2004 Brad Pitt Clooney and Matt Damon in 2001 promoting Ocean s 11 in Turkey After leaving ER Clooney starred in commercially successful films including Wolfgang Petersen s disaster film The Perfect Storm 2000 which was a box office success The same year he starred in the Coen brothers adventure comedy O Brother Where Art Thou 2000 alongside John Turturro Tim Blake Nelson and John Goodman The film a modern satire is loosely based on Homer s epic Greek poem the Odyssey and the Preston Sturges 1941 classic film Sullivan s Travels This film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression He plays escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination for his performance Variety film critic Todd McCarthy compared Clooney to Clark Gable writing Not for the first time recalling Clark Gable in his looks and line delivery Clooney clearly delights in embellishing Everett s vanity and in delivering the Coens carefully calibrated high toned dialogue 45 Brad Pitt Clooney Matt Damon Andy Garcia Julia Roberts and Steven Soderbergh publicize Ocean s Eleven 2001 The following year In 2001 Clooney reunited with Soderbergh for the heist comedy Ocean s Eleven a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name with Clooney playing Danny Ocean originally portrayed by Frank Sinatra The film starred Clooney Brad Pitt Julia Roberts Matt Damon and Andy Garcia The film cemented Clooney as a leading film star It is Clooney s most successful film with him in the lead role earning 451 million worldwide he appeared but did not star in Gravity which has a 723 million worldwide box office 46 47 Ocean s Eleven inspired two sequels starring Clooney Ocean s Twelve in 2004 48 and Ocean s Thirteen in 2007 49 In 2001 Clooney and Soderbergh co founded Section Eight Productions for which Grant Heslov was president of television The following year he would work with Soderbergh yet again in the science fiction drama Solaris 2002 an adaptation of the acclaimed 1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Famed critic Roger Ebert praised the film and Clooney writing Clooney has successfully survived being named People magazine s sexiest man alive by deliberately choosing projects that ignore that image His alliance with Soderbergh both as an actor and co producer shows a taste for challenge 50 That same year Clooney made his directorial debut in the 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind based on the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris The film premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim Though the film did not do well at the box office critics stated that Clooney s directing showed promise 51 In 2003 Clooney reunited with the Coen brothers in the romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty opposite Catherine Zeta Jones Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times praised their chemistry and the casting of Clooney in the role writing the good work comes from George Clooney who happens to have the Art Deco profile fit for a 1930 s comedy He scores with his willingness to mock his above average charisma level and the chiseled chin cover guy good looks 52 Directorial debut and acclaim 2005 2013 Clooney attending the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival In 2005 Clooney starred in Syriana which was based loosely on former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer s memoirs of his service in the Middle East Clooney suffered an accident on the set of Syriana which caused a brain injury with complications from a punctured dura 53 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 won the Oscar for his role in Syriana 54 Clooney next appeared in The Good German 2006 a film noir directed by Soderbergh that is set in post World War II Germany In August 2006 Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Pictures In October 2006 Clooney received the American Cinematheque Award which honors someone in the entertainment industry who has made a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures 55 On January 22 2008 Clooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Michael Clayton 2007 losing to Daniel Day Lewis who won for Paul Thomas Anderson s drama There Will Be Blood 2007 Later that year he directed his third film Leatherheads in which he also starred On April 4 2008 Variety reported that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over a dispute concerning Leatherheads Clooney who is the director producer and star of the film claimed that he had contributed in writing all but two scenes of it and requested a writing credit alongside Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly who had worked on the screenplay for 17 years Clooney lost an arbitration vote 2 1 and withdrew from the union over the decision He became a financial core status non member meaning he no longer has voting rights and cannot run for office or attend membership meetings according to the Writers Guild of America s constitution 56 Clooney Ewan McGregor and Grant Heslov at the Venice International Film Festival in 2009 In 2009 he starred in the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats alongside Ewan McGregor Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey The film was directed by Heslov and released in November 2009 The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival to positive reviews Also in November 2009 he voiced the title character opposite Meryl Streep as Mrs Fox in Wes Anderson s animated feature Fantastic Mr Fox The same year Clooney starred in the Jason Reitman directed comedy drama Up in the Air which was initially given limited release and then wide released on December 25 2009 Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter praised Clooney s performance writing Boasting one of George Clooney s strongest performances the film seems like a surefire awards contender 57 For his performance in the film he was nominated for a Golden Globe a Screen Actors Guild Award BAFTA and an Academy Award 58 The following year Clooney produced and starred in the dark crime drama The American 2010 based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and directed by Anton Corbijn 59 As of 2011 update Clooney is represented by Bryan Lourd co chairman of Creative Artists Agency CAA 60 In 2011 Clooney starred in The Descendants as a husband whose wife has an accident that leaves her in a coma He earned critical praise for his work and won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Drama Also he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the political drama The Ides of March In 2013 Clooney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Drama the BAFTA Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Argo The following year Clooney co starred with Sandra Bullock in Gravity 2013 a space thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron 61 In 2013 Clooney co founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman 62 It was sold to Diageo for 700 million in June 2017 with an additional 300 million possible depending on the company s performance over the next ten years 63 According to Forbes annual ranking he was the world s highest paid actor for 2017 2018 earning 239 million between June 1 2017 and June 1 2018 64 Career slump and resurgence 2014 present In 2014 He co wrote directed and starred in The Monuments Men an adaption of The Monuments Men Allied Heroes Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M Edsel 65 The film starred an ensemble cast of A list stars including Matt Damon Cate Blanchett Bill Murray John Goodman and Bob Balaban as well as European stars Hugh Bonneville and Jean Dujardin The film was a critical misfire and a box office failure 66 Many historians were critical of the film for its historical inaccuracies The Guardian film critic Andrew Pulver panned the film writing that the film was filled with unearned patriotic sentiment sketchy to the point of inanity and interrupted every few minutes with neurotic self justification 67 That same year Clooney produced August Osage County 2013 an adaptation of the play of the same name The film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 68 Jodie Foster Jack O Connell Julia Roberts and Clooney at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for Money Monster His next film was Tomorrowland 2015 a science fiction adventure film in which he played Frank Walker an inventor 69 Later in the year he was featured as himself in the Netflix Christmas musical comedy A Very Murray Christmas starring Bill Murray 70 The following year he starred in Hail Caesar a comedy from the Coen brothers set in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s which premiered in February 2016 Clooney portrayed Baird Whitlock a Robert Taylor type film star who is kidnapped during the production of a film Josh Brolin co starred as fixer Eddie Mannix 71 Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for the Jodie Foster directed thriller Money Monster 2016 playing the host of a television show that investigates conspiracies on commerce and Wall Street who is taken hostage by a bankrupt viewer given a bad tip 72 In October 2017 his directorial project Suburbicon a 1950s set crime comedy was released It stars Matt Damon Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac from a script written by the Coen brothers in the 1980s that they had originally intended to direct themselves 73 He received the 2018 AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7 2018 74 The award was presented to him by Shirley MacLaine and was honored by Julianna Margulies Cate Blanchett Bill Murray Anna Kendrick Jimmy Kimmel Jennifer Aniston Courteney Cox and his wife Amal Clooney 75 Clooney with President Barack Obama in 2016 In 2019 Clooney returned to television starring directing and producing the Hulu historical miniseries Catch 22 based upon the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller 76 Clooney was initially cast in a main role in the series however he opted to take a smaller supporting role instead 77 The series premiered on May 31 2019 to critical acclaim 78 After a four year absence from acting in film Clooney starred in the science fiction film The Midnight Sky a film he also directed and produced based upon the Lily Brooks Dalton debut novel Good Morning Midnight for Netflix 79 80 He also directs The Tender Bar adaptation for Amazon Studios with Ben Affleck in the lead It will have a limited release in Los Angeles and New York theatres on December 17 2021 followed by a nationwide premiere on December 22 2021 The coming of age film will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video from January 7 2022 81 In February 2021 The Hollywood Reporter reported that Clooney s Smokehouse Pictures would be teaming with Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios to produce a docuseries about the Ohio State University abuse scandal and that the series would be based on an October 2020 Sports Illustrated article by Jon Wertheim 82 In September 2021 Clooney reteamed with Brad Pitt for an untitled thriller film written and directed by Jon Watts 83 In 2022 he reunited with Julia Roberts for a romantic comedy film Ticket to Paradise directed by Ol Parker It was initially set to release in theatres on September 30 2022 but was pushed by a month to October 21 2022 84 85 Activism and public advocacyPolitical views Clooney supported both of Barack Obama s 2008 86 and 2012 presidential campaigns 87 Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election 88 Clooney endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election 89 and he hosted a virtual fundraiser for Biden together with Obama on July 28 2020 90 He has also made humorous statements against Republican Party figures In 2006 Clooney sarcastically thanked Jack Abramoff at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards before concluding with Who would name their kid Jack with off at the end No wonder the guy s screwed up 91 Clooney has also described Republican donor Steve Wynn as an asshole and a jackass after the two had a heated disagreement over the Affordable Care Act 92 Humanitarian work Clooney in Abeche Chad in January 2008 with the United Nations Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch Project an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities along with Brad Pitt Matt Damon Don Cheadle David Pressman and Jerry Weintraub 93 In February 2009 he visited Goz Beida Chad with New York Times columnist Nicholas D Kristof 94 In January 2010 he organized the telethon Hope for Haiti Now 95 which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims 96 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 overturned California s Prop 8 ban on same sex marriage as attorney David Boies 97 The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights 98 99 In September 2012 Clooney offered to take an auction winner out to lunch to benefit the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network GLSEN GLSEN works to create a safe space in schools for children who are or may be perceived to be gay lesbian bisexual or transgender 100 On August 7 2020 George and Amal Clooney donated 100 000 to three Lebanese charities after the capital Beirut was left devastated by a deadly explosion They donated money to the Lebanese Red Cross Impact Lebanon and Baytna Baytak The blast claimed the lives of at least 145 people and injured more than 5 000 101 Darfur Clooney discusses Sudan with President Barack Obama at the White House in October 2010 Clooney with Vice President Joe Biden in 2009 Clooney has advocated a resolution of the Darfur conflict 102 He spoke at a 2006 Save Darfur rally in Washington D C In April 2006 he spent ten days in Chad and Sudan with his father to make the TV special A Journey to Darfur reflecting the situation of Darfur s refugees and advocated for action 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 sale proceeds being donated to the International Rescue Committee 103 104 105 106 In September of the same year he spoke to the UN Security Council with Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel to ask the UN to find a solution to the conflict and to help the people of Darfur 107 In December he visited China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic winners to ask both governments to pressure Sudan s government 108 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 given the failure of Sudan President Omar al Bashir to respond to UN resolutions 109 He narrated and was co executive producer of the 2007 documentary Sand and Sorrow 110 Clooney also appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now a call to action film released in November 2007 for people all over the world to help stop the Darfur crisis 111 In December 2007 Clooney and fellow actor Don Cheadle received the Summit Peace Award from 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 112 On January 18 2008 the United Nations announced Clooney s appointment as a UN messenger of peace effective January 31 10 11 Clooney conceived of and with John Prendergast human rights activist co founder of the Enough Project and Strategic Advisor for Not on Our Watch Project 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 113 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 114 On March 16 2012 Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy for civil disobedience 115 116 He intended to be arrested when he planned the protest 116 Several other prominent participants were also arrested including Martin Luther King III 116 Clooney has been described as one of the most strident critics of Omar al Bashir 117 Armenian genocide Clooney supports the recognition of the Armenian genocide He is one of the chief associates of the 100 Lives Initiative a project which aims to remember the lives lost during the event 118 As part of the initiative Clooney launched the Aurora Prize which awards to those who risk their lives to prevent genocides and atrocities 118 119 Clooney had also urged various American government officials to support the United States recognition of the Armenian Genocide 119 Clooney visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the event in April 2016 120 Syria In May 2015 Clooney told the BBC that the Syrian conflict was too complicated politically to get involved in and he wanted to focus on helping the refugees 121 In March 2016 he and his wife Amal Clooney met with Syrian refugees living in Berlin to mark the fifth anniversary of the conflict before meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to thank her for Germany s open door policy 122 Gun control In 2018 following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting the Clooneys pledged 500 000 to the March for Our Lives and said they would be in attendance 123 LGBT rights Clooney is a supporter of gay rights 124 On March 28 2019 Clooney wrote an open letter calling for the boycott of the Sultan of Brunei s hotels over a new law that came into force on April 3 2019 that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning Clooney lists nine hotels including The Dorchester 45 Park Lane Coworth Park The Beverly Hills Hotel Hotel Bel Air Le Meurice Hotel Plaza Athenee Hotel Eden and Hotel Principe di Savoia and asks readers to consider how we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery 125 126 Personal lifeRelationships Clooney and Alamuddin at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany in 2016 Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston 1987 1989 During this relationship he purchased a Vietnamese Pot bellied pig named Max as a gift for Preston but when their relationship ended Clooney kept the pig for an additional 18 years until Max died in 2006 He has jokingly referred to Max as the longest relationship he had ever had 127 Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993 128 He also had a relationship with actress Ginger Lynn Allen 129 130 131 In 1995 Clooney dated Cameron Diaz and Frances Fisher 132 Clooney dated French reality TV personality Celine Balitran 1996 1999 133 In 2000 he was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu 134 After meeting British model Lisa Snowdon in 2000 he had a five year on again off again relationship with her 135 Clooney dated Renee Zellweger 2001 Jennifer Siebel Newsom 2002 136 Krista Allen 2002 2008 137 and Linda Thompson 2006 138 In June 2007 he started dating reality personality Sarah Larson but the couple broke up in May 2008 139 In July 2009 Clooney was in a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June 2011 140 141 In July 2011 Clooney started dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler 142 and they ended their relationship in July 2013 143 Clooney became engaged to British Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on April 28 2014 144 145 He subsequently said they forged a strong bond because of their interest in campaigning work and particularly over the issue of the Elgin Marbles when she was acting for the government of Greece in support of their return from the British Museum and he while promoting his film The Monuments Men had argued for this and been criticised by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson 146 In July 2014 Clooney publicly mocked the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail after it claimed his fiancee s mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds 147 When the tabloid apologized for its false story Clooney refused to accept the apology He called the paper the worst kind of tabloid One that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers 148 On August 7 2014 Clooney and Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of the United Kingdom 149 Alamuddin and Clooney were officially married on September 27 2014 at Ca Farsetti 150 They were married by Clooney s friend Walter Veltroni the former mayor of Rome 151 In 2015 Clooney and Alamuddin adopted a rescue dog a Bassett Hound named Millie from the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society 152 On February 9 2017 it was reported by the CBS talk show The Talk that Amal was pregnant and that they were expecting twins 153 On June 6 2017 Amal gave birth to a daughter Ella and a son Alexander 154 In 2020 Clooney revealed to Jimmy Kimmel and Graham Norton in their respective talk shows that the twins can speak Italian fluently despite both Clooney and Alamuddin not speaking the language 155 Real estate Clooney has property in Los Angeles He purchased the 7 354 square foot 683 2 m2 house in 1995 through his George Guilfoyle Trust His home in Italy is in the village of Laglio on Lake Como 156 near the former residence of Italian author Ada Negri 157 Clooney also owns a home in Los Cabos Mexico that is next door to the home of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber 158 In 2014 Clooney and his new British wife Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed 159 Mill House on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire England 160 at a cost of around 10 million 161 In May 2021 The Economic Times reported Clooney plans to buy a vineyard near the village of Brignoles in France which includes an 18th century manor with its own swimming pool and a tennis court 162 Motorcycle accidents On September 21 2007 Clooney and then girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken New Jersey when his motorcycle was hit by a car The driver of the car reported that Clooney attempted to pass him on the right 163 while Clooney said that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped his motorcycle On October 9 2007 more than two dozen staff at Palisades Medical Center were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney s medical records in violation of federal law 164 On July 10 2018 Clooney was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle to a film set in Sardinia He was hospitalized with minor injuries 165 166 Sports Growing up around Cincinnati Clooney is a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds 167 He tried out to be a Red in 1977 168 Clooney is also an association football fan and supports EFL League One club Derby County F C 169 170 Relationship with the media In November 2021 Clooney wrote an op ed to British tabloid The Daily Mail petitioning them to stop publishing photos of his children highlighting that his wife is an international lawyer who works confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups and that the tabloid was endangering their lives In 2014 Clooney had rejected an apology from the Daily Mail for printing a false story calling the Mail the worst kind of tabloid 171 In the mediaClooney has appeared in commercials outside the U S for Fiat Nespresso Martini vermouth Omega and Warburtons 172 173 174 175 176 Clooney was named one of Time magazine s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007 2008 and 2009 177 178 179 He is sometimes described as one of the most handsome men in the world 180 181 In 2005 TV Guide ranked Clooney No 1 on its 50 Sexiest Stars of All Time list 182 The cover story in a February 2008 issue of Time magazine was headlined with George Clooney The last movie star 183 He was parodied in the South Park episode Smug Alert which criticizes his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards citation needed Clooney has also lent his voice to South Park as Sparky the Dog in Big Gay Al s Big Gay Boat Ride and as the emergency room doctor in South Park Bigger Longer amp Uncut Clooney was caricatured in the American Dad episode Tears of a Clooney in which Francine Smith plans to destroy him 184 Director Alexander Cartio made his debut feature film Convincing Clooney about a Los Angeles artist who faced with rejection as an actor and screenwriter concocts a master plan to get Clooney to star in his first ever low budget short film The movie was released on DVD in November 2011 185 Publications The Key to Making Peace in Africa Co authored with John Prendergast Foreign Affairs Vol 97 No 2 March 14 2018 Awards and nominationsMain article List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney Throughout his career Clooney has won two Academy Awards one for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Syriana 186 and one for Best Picture as one of the producers for Argo as well as a BAFTA and a Golden Globe For his role in The Descendants he won a Golden Globe Award 187 and was nominated for an Academy Award BAFTA Award Satellite Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Lead Actor and Best Cast 188 On January 11 2015 Clooney was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award References Breznican Anthony October 22 2020 George Clooney Keep Fighting For Kentucky and Other Red States Vanity Fair Retrieved February 13 2021 Growing up as a Democrat in Kentucky helped George Clooney get used to fighting impossible battles With the presidential election fast approaching the activist and actor says progressives should not give up on fighting for deep red states even if the challenge seems insurmountable I ve always been involved in Democratic politics since I was raised a Democrat in Kentucky So imagine how much fun it was for me said the actor whose mother was active in city politics while his father ran unsuccessfully for congress in 2004 in an interview with Vanity Fair about his upcoming film The Midnight Sky George Clooney Encyclopaedia Britannica May 2 2021 Retrieved May 31 2021 American Film Institute 2018 George Clooney Tribute American Film Institute Retrieved October 11 2018 url https www kennedy 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Retrieved May 15 2013 Elkins Kathleen November 2 2016 How George Clooney accidentally started a tequila company that s too successful to stop CNBC Whitten Sarah June 21 2017 George Clooney just sold his tequila business for up to 1 billion CNBC Robehmed Natalie August 22 2018 The World s Highest Paid Actors 2018 George Clooney Tops List With 239 Million Forbes Retrieved August 23 2018 Fleming Mike Jr December 4 2012 Matt Damon in Talks To Join Monumental Cast of George Clooney s Next Film Deadline Retrieved May 15 2013 With Suburbicon George Clooney s Box Office Struggles Continue The Wrap October 29 2017 Retrieved July 1 2022 The Monuments Men review The Guardian February 8 2014 Retrieved July 1 2022 Smokehouse s George Clooney And Grant Heslov Producing August Osage County Deadline June 18 2012 Retrieved May 15 2013 Ito Robert May 14 2015 Going Back to the Future for Tomorrowland From Disney The New York Times Retrieved May 16 2016 Spangler Todd May 22 2015 Bill Murray Christmas 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Clooney Switches Roles Deadline Hollywood Retrieved May 19 2020 Malone Michael February 13 2019 George Clooney Catch 22 Begins on Hulu May 17 Broadcasting amp Cable Retrieved May 19 2020 Justin Kroll June 24 2019 George Clooney to Direct Star in Good Morning Midnight Adaptation for Netflix Variety magazine Archived from the original on September 7 2020 Retrieved January 4 2021 Amanda N Duka June 24 2019 George Clooney To Direct amp Star In Film Adaptation Of Good Morning Midnight Novel For Netflix Deadline magazine Archived from the original on November 8 2020 Retrieved January 31 2021 The streamer said Monday that two time Oscar winner George Clooney is attached to direct and star in a feature based on Lily Brooks Dalton s 2016 novel Good Morning Midnight which was adapted for screen by The Revenant scribe Mark L Smith The Tender Bar Amazon Sets Release Date For George Clooney Helmed Pic Starring Ben Affleck Tye Sheridan amp More First Look Image Porter Rick February 22 2021 George Clooney to Produce Ohio State Abuse Scandal Docuseries The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved February 23 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Kit Borys September 24 2021 George Clooney Brad Pitt Jon Watts Movie Package Sends Studios Streamers Into Bidding War Exclusive The Hollywood Reporter D Alessandro Anthony October 12 2021 George Clooney amp Julia Roberts Reteam Ticket To Paradise Sets Fall 2022 Theatrical Release Deadline Hollywood Welk Brian October 12 2021 George Clooney and Julia Roberts Rom Com Ticket to Paradise Shifts a Month to Oct 2022 TheWrap Clooney Welcomes Obama s Presidential Bid Hollywood com October 25 2006 Archived from the original on November 6 2006 2011 07 16 Hollywood stars open wallets for Obama Politico Retrieved January 23 2013 Boucher Philip April 26 2016 Tom Hanks Predicts Donald Trump Will Become President When Spaceships Come Down Filled With Dinosaurs People Retrieved July 20 2016 van Allen Fox 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boomers Channel airing Clooney s Darfur docu Variety June 1 2007 Retrieved September 27 2014 Stein Joel September 14 2009 The Time 100 George Clooney Time Archived from the original on May 4 2009 Retrieved September 19 2009 Clooney s Docu on Darfur to Air Monday CBS News Archived from the original on November 1 2008 Retrieved November 1 2008 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link AmericanLife TV Network ALN Donates Proceeds From A Journey to Darfur DVD to the International Rescue Committee Archived from the original on January 13 2009 Retrieved January 13 2009 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link In addition to premiering on AmericanLife TV Network A Journey to Darfur has aired on The Community Channel in England and France 2 The documentary has also been shown at festivals and schools around the world including The second Refugee Film Festival in Tokyo presented by the UNHCR Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Award based in Riccione Italy Milano Doc Festival and the Human Rights Nights Film Festival in Bologna Italy Linton Leyla Clooney urges UN action on Darfur The Washington Post September 15 2006 Friedman Roger George Clooney s Secret Mission Archived November 4 2007 at the Wayback Machine Fox News Channel December 12 2006 Europe calls on Sudan to accept UN resolution Sudan Tribune March 25 2007 Retrieved April 28 2014 Weissberg Jay June 25 2007 Sand and Sorrow review Variety Hope For Haiti Now A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief Huver Scott November 26 2007 Clooney and Cheadle Honored by Nobel Prize Winners People Archived from the original on January 29 2008 Retrieved January 20 2008 George Clooney speaks to CLSA clients India Infoline News Service September 21 2011 Hayes Stephen F May 27 2011 Dancing with a dictator in Sudan The Washington Post George Clooney released after Sudan embassy arrest BBC News March 16 2012 a b c Devereaux Ryan March 16 2012 George Clooney arrested in planned protest at Sudanese embassy The Guardian Donald Trump ducks a decision on sanctions on Khartoum The Economist July 13 2017 Retrieved July 15 2017 a b Sieczkowski Cavan March 11 2015 George And Amal Clooney Attend 100 Lives Commemoration Huffington Post a b There was a genocide of Armenians in 1915 Says George Clooney Asbarez October 27 2015 George and Amal Clooney to visit Armenia next year PanArmenian October 29 2015 George Clooney Syria conflict incredibly complex BBC News BBC News Retrieved April 29 2016 Amal Clooney tells refugees how her family were once forced to flee their homeland too The Independent March 16 2016 Retrieved April 29 2016 Oprah Follows George and Amal Clooney s Lead to Donate 500 000 for Parkland Students March February 20 2018 Archived from the original on February 21 2018 Retrieved February 20 2018 George Clooney Doesn t Give A S t If People Think He Is Gay EntertainmentWise Archived from the original on October 1 2014 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