George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syria (2006) and the other for co-producing Argo (2012).
Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and subsequently gained wide acclaim in his role as Dr Doug Ross in the long-term medical drama ER 1994-1999, where he received two Emmy Primetime Nomination awards. While working on ER , he began to draw a variety of major roles in the film, including the superhero movie Batman & amp; Robin (1997) and the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), where he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who will be an old collaborator. In 1999, he took the lead role in the <
In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of its biggest commercial success, the remake of Ocean's Eleven's theft comedy, the first of what became a trilogy starring Clooney. He made his directorial debut a year later with the Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed historical drama Good Night and Good Luck (2005), sports comedy Leatherheads (2008), The Ides of March (2011) political drama, and the war movie The Monuments Men (2014). Clooney won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005), and later earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and comedy- drama Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). In 2013, he received an Academy Award for Best Picture to produce political thriller Argo . She is the only person who has been nominated for an Academy Awards in six different categories.
In 2009, Clooney was included in Time 100's annual 's as one of the "World's Most Influential People". He is also renowned for his political and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Peaceful Persons since 31 January 2008. His humanitarian work includes his defense in finding resolutions for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for Haiti 2010. earthquakes, Armenian Genocide recognition, the 2004 tsunami, the 9/11 victims, and filming documentaries like Sand and Grief to raise awareness about the international crisis. Clooney helped fund the March for Our Lives after the shooting of Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, Clooney founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman. It was sold to Diageo for $ 700 million in June 2017, with an additional $ 300 million may depend on the company's performance over the next ten years. He is married to British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
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Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (nÃÆ' Â © e Warren), is a beauty queen and city council. His father, Nick Clooney, is a former news and television host, including five years on the AMC network. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry. The grandmother of her ancestor, Mary Ann Sparrow, was Nancy Lincoln's half-brother, the mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has an older sister named Adelia (known as Ada). Her aunt is a cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousin included actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, who married singer Debby Boone.
Clooney was raised by a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he did not know if he believed in Heaven, or even God. He has said, "Yes, we are Catholic, big time, whole family, whole group." He started his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michael in Columbus, Ohio; then Western Row Elementary School (public school) in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974; and St. Susanna in Mason, where she serves as an altar boy. The Cloison family moved back to Kentucky when George was in the middle of seventh grade. In high school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a paralyzing condition of the face. The disease disappears within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he declared that "yes, it's gone, it takes about nine months to go.This is the first year of high school, which is a bad time because half your face is paralyzed." He also described a positive outcome of this condition: "This might be a big thing that happened to me because it forces me to engage in a series of mocks of myself and I think that's an important part of being famous." Practical jokes should be aimed at You. "
After her parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School. He has stated that he got all the As and B in school, and played baseball and basketball. He tried playing professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but he did not pass the first round of cuts and was not offered a contract. 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. He makes money selling women's shoes, door-to-door insurance, storage shelves, construction work, and tobacco cuts.
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Careers
Initial work, 1978-1993
Clooney's first role was in addition to the Centennial television mini-series in 1978, based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener and filmed partly in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky.. Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short sit-down sitcom E/R (not to be confused with ER , the more famous drama hospital, where Clooney was also one-star decades later). She plays a handyman in The Facts of Life series and appears as Bobby Hopkins, a detective, in an episode of The Golden Girls . Her first role was a semi-regular supporter role in Roseanne's sitcom , serving as Roseanne Barr's Booker Brooks boss, followed by the role of a construction worker at Baby Talk, a leading role in the CBS drama Body of Facility as Detective Ryan Walker, and then a year's turn as Det. James Falconer at Sisters . In 1988, Clooney was cast in the comedy-horror film Return of the Killer Tomatoes. In 1990, he starred in the short-lived ABC drama police Sunset Beat . During this period, Clooney was a student at the acting school of Beverly Hills Playhouse for five years.
Breakthrough, 1994-1999
Clooney became famous when he played. Doug Ross, along with Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wyle, in the NBC hit medical drama ER 1994-1999. After leaving the series in 1999, he made a cameo appearance in season 6 and returned for a place of guests in the final season of the event. For his work in the series, Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Best Actor in Drama Series in 1995 and 1996. He also won three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor - Television Drama Series in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (lost to opposite Anthony Edwards).
Clooney started appearing in movies while doing ER . His first major Hollywood role was in the horror comedy-horror thriller After ER , 2000-2010
After leaving ER , Clooney starred in the commercial success film The Perfect Storm (2000), a disaster drama; and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), comedy adventure Coen brothers. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for the theft comedy of Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack movie of the same name, with Clooney playing Danny Ocean, originally portrayed by Frank Sinatra. This is Clooney's most successful film with her in the lead role, earning $ 451 million worldwide (she appears, but not starred, on Gravity, which has a $ 723 million box box worldwide). The film inspired two sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.
In 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh founded Part Eight Productions, which Grant Heslov is the president of television. Clooney made his directorial debut in the 2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind film, based on TV producer Chave Barris's autobiography. Although the film did not go well at the box office, critics claimed that Clooney's directorial shows promise.
In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana , which was loosely based on former Intelligence Agency Robert Baer's notes about his ministry in the Middle East. Clooney had an accident on the set of Syriana , one of which caused a brain injury with complications from a punctured dura. That same year he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about the famous 1950s war of television journalist Edward R. Murrow 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 . She won an Oscar for her role in Syriana .
Clooney next appeared in The Good German (2006), a noir film directed by Soderbergh set in post-World War II Germany. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started production of the company Smokehouse Pictures. In October 2006, Clooney received an American Cinematheque Award, which honors a person in the entertainment industry who has made a "significant contribution to the art of moving pictures". On January 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated for an Academy Award (and many other awards) for Best Actor for Michael Clayton (2007). Later that year, he directed his third film, Leatherheads , in which he also starred. On April 4, 2008, Variety reported that Clooney quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America on a dispute over Leatherheads. Clooney, who is director, producer, and movie star, claims that he has contributed in writing "all but two scenes" from it, and asked for a writing credit with Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, who has worked on the scenario for 17 years. Clooney lost 2-1 arbitration votes, and withdrew from the union on the decision. He becomes a non-member "core financial member", meaning he no longer has voting rights, and can not run for office or attend membership meetings, according to the WGA Constitution.
He later starred alongside Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey in the men's war game parody of The Men Who Stare at Goats, directed by Heslov and released in November 2009. Also in November 2009, he voiced Mr. Fox in animated features Wes Anderson Fantastic Mr. Fox . In the same year, Clooney starred in the upcoming drama comedy Up in the Air, which was initially given a limited release, and was subsequently released widely on December 25, 2009. For his performance in the film, which was directed by Jason Reitman, he was nominated for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and Academy Award. 2010 saw the release of The American , based on Martin Booth's A Very Private Gentleman novel and directed by Anton Corbijn. Clooney plays a major role, and is a film producer.
2011-present
In 2011, Clooney was represented by Bryan Lourd, vice chairman of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). In 2011 Clooney starred in
Clooney starred alongside Sandra Bullock at Gravity (2013), an outer space thriller directed by Alfonso CuarÃÆ'³n. He co-wrote, directed and starred in The Monuments Men, an adaptation of The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thief and The Biggest Treasure Histor in History by Robert M. Edsel. Clooney also produced August: Osage County (2013), an adaptation of the game of the same name. Movie stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The next film is Tomorrowland (2015), a science fiction adventure movie in which he plays Frank Walker, an inventor. Later that year, she appeared as herself in the musical comedy Netflix Natal A Very Murray Christmas , starring Bill Murray.
Hail, Caesar! , comedy from Coen's brothers in the Hollywood film industry in the 1950s, aired in February 2016. Clooney plays Baird Whitlock, star of Robert Taylor film kidnapped during the production of a film. Josh Brolin plays Eddie Mannix fixer. Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for director Jodie Foster's Money Monster (2016) thriller (2016), plays host of a television show investigating a conspiracy about trade and Wall Street, held hostage by a poorly-tipped performer tip. The next project director is a comedy comedy of the 1950s Suburbicon (2017), starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac, from a manuscript coined by the Coen brothers in the 1980s, that they were originally intended to direct themselves.
She will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award 2018 on June 7, 2018.
Activism
Political view
Clooney supports President Obama's campaign in 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. He is a supporter of gay rights. In 2003, he opposed the Iraq war, saying, "You can not defeat your enemy again through war, otherwise you create a whole generation of revenge... Our opponents will use car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win... I believe [Donald Rumsfeld] thinks this is a winable war, but there's no such thing anymore.We can not beat anyone anymore. "In 2016, Clooney supported Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election.
Humanitarian work
Clooney is involved with the Not On Our Watch Project, an organization that focuses on global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass cruelty, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub. In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. New York Times . In January 2010, he set up Telethon
In March 2012, Clooney performed with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in the drama show Dustin Lance Black, '8' - a gradual staging of a federal court that overturned the Prop of 8 ban in the same California - same-sex marriage - as attorney David Boies. Production was held at Wilshire Ebell Theater and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. In September 2012, Clooney offered to take the auctioneer for lunch for the benefit of Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to create safe spaces in schools for children who may be considered gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Darfur
Clooney advocates for conflict resolution in Darfur. He spoke in 2006, Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. In April 2006, he spent ten days in Chad and Sudan with his father to make a special TV "Trip to Darfur" reflecting the Darfur refugee situation, and advocating for action. The documentary is broadcast on American cable TV as well as in the UK and France. In 2008, it was released on DVD with the proceeds of sale donated to the International Rescue Committee. 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. In December, he visited China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic winners to ask the two governments to pressure the Sudanese government.
On March 25, 2007, he sent an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling on the EU to take "decisive action" in the region given the failure of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to respond to UN resolutions. He narrated and is a co-executive producer of the 2007 documentary Sand and Sorrow . Clooney also appeared in Darfur Now's documentary film Darfur Now, a call-to-action movie released in November 2007 for people around the world to help stop the Darfur crisis. In December 2007, Clooney and fellow actor Don Cheadle received the Peace Award Summit from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. In his acceptance speech, Clooney says that "Don and I... stand here before you as a failure.The simple truth is that when it comes to cruelty in Darfur... those guys are no better now than they were a few years ago On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced the appointment of Clooney as UN peace envoy, effective January 31.
Clooney was conceived and, with John Prendergast - human rights activist, founder of the Enough Project, and Strategic Advisor for Not on Our Watch Project - embarked on the Satellite Sentinels Project (SSP), after the October 2010 trip to South Sudan. The SSP aims to monitor armed activity for renewed civil war signs between Sudan and South Sudan, and to detect and prevent mass atrocities across the border region there.
Clooney and John Prendergast co-authored the Washington Post op-ed article 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, flooding with food bombings and aid in Darfur, and he is now threatening the entire north-south peace process... evidence shows that incentives alone are not enough to change. Calculation of Khartoum. International support should be sought immediately for refusing debt relief, extending ICC charges, diplomatically isolating the regime, suspending all non-humanitarian aid, blocking state-controlled bank transactions and freezing accounts that hold oil wealth transferred by senior regime officials.
On March 16, 2012, Clooney was arrested outside the Sudan Embassy due to civil disobedience. He intended to be arrested when he was planning a protest. Several other prominent participants were also arrested, including Martin Luther King III. Clooney has been described as one of the harshest critics of Omar al-Bashir.
Armenian Genocide
George Clooney is a strong supporter of Armenian Genocide recognition. He is one of the co-leaders of the 100 Lives Initiative, a project that aims to remember the lives lost during the event. As part of the initiative, Clooney launched the Aurora Prize, which rewards those who risk their lives to prevent genocide and cruelty. Clooney also urged various American government officials to support US recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Clooney visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the event in April 2016.
Syria
In May 2015, Clooney told the BBC that the Syrian conflict was too politically complicated to get involved in it and he wanted to focus on helping the refugees. 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 German Chancellor Angela Merkel to thank her for her German open door policy.
Pistol control
In 2018, after the shooting of Stoneman Douglas High School, Clooney promised $ 500,000 for March for Our Lives and said they would attend.
Personal life
Relationships
Clooney married actress Talia Balsam in 1989; they divorced in 1993.
Clooney was engaged to the British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on April 28, 2014. In July 2014, Clooney publicly criticized British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail after claiming his fiancé's mother was against their marriage. on the basis of religion. When the tabloids apologized for his false story, Clooney refused to accept an apology. He called the paper "the worst kind of tabloids, one of which is the facts that harm the readers." On August 7, 2014, Clooney and Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at Royal Borough Kensington and Chelsea from the UK. Alamuddin and Clooney are officially married on September 27, 2014, at Ca 'Farsetti. They married Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome. In 2015, Clooney and Alamuddin adopt a rescue dog, a bassett dog named Millie, from the San Gabriel Valley Human Society. On February 9, 2017, was reported by a CBS talk show, The Talk , that Amal was pregnant, and that they were expecting twins. On June 6, 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son, Alexander.
Real estate
Clooney's main house is in Los Angeles. He bought a house of 7,354 square feet (683.2 m 2 ) in 1995 through the George Guilfoyle Trust. His home in Italy is in the village of Laglio, on Lake Como, near the former residence of Italian author Ada Negri. Clooney also has a home in Los Cabos, Mexico, which is adjacent to the home of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. In 2014, Clooney and his new wife, Amal Alamuddin, bought a Grade II registered Mill House on an island on the Thames River at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England at a cost of Ã, Â £ 10 million.
Motorcycle accident
On September 21, 2007, Clooney and his girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey, when his motorcycle was hit by a car. The car driver reported that Clooney was trying to pass him on the right, while Clooney said that the driver gave a left sign and then decided to turn right and cut his motorcycle. On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen staff at Palisades Medical Center were suspended unpaid for viewing Clooney's medical records in violation of federal law.
Sports
Growing up around Cincinnati, Clooney is a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds. He tried to become Red in 1977.
In media
Clooney has appeared in ads outside the US for Fiat, Nespresso, Martini vermouth, and Omega. Clooney was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, 2008, and 2009. He is sometimes described as one of the most handsome men in the world. In 2005, the TV Guide rated Clooney No. 1 on the "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.
She was parodied in the episode of South Park "Smug Alert!", Which mocks her acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards. However, Clooney also lent her voice to South Park as Sparky the Dog on Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride and as an emergency room physician at South Park: Bigger, Longer & amp; Not Cut . Clooney is caricatured in the episode of American Dad! "Tears of a Clooney", in which Francine Smith plans to destroy it.
Director Alexander Cartio made his feature film debut, Convincing Clooney , about a Los Angeles artist who, faced with the rejection of actor and screenwriter, arrived at the master plan that tried to make Clooney star in his first movie - a low budget short film. The film was released on DVD in November 2011.
Awards and nominations
Throughout his career, Clooney has won two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Syriana and one for Best Picture as one of the producers for Argo , also as BAFTA and Golden Globe. For her role in The Descendants, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Actor and Best Players. On January 11, 2015, Clooney was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.
Movieography
References
External links
- George Clooney on IMDb
- George Clooney in Box Office Mojo
- George Clooney in the TCM Movie Database
- George Clooney at Biography.com
- George Clooney on NETFLIX
See also
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