George Clooney
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1961-05-06
Place of Birth
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
George Clooney
Biography
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana(2005) and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022). Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and has since directed the historical drama Good Night and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Also Known For
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aug 30, 2000
Ocean's Eleven
Dec 07, 2001
Ocean's Twelve
Dec 09, 2004
The Good German
Dec 15, 2006
Syriana
Nov 23, 2005
Ocean's Thirteen
Jun 05, 2007
Batman & Robin
Jun 20, 1997
Out of Sight
Jun 26, 1998
Solaris
Nov 27, 2002
The Perfect Storm
Jun 29, 2000
From Dusk Till Dawn
Jan 19, 1996
Wolfs
Sep 20, 2024
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Sep 16, 2005
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Oct 17, 2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Oct 14, 2009
The Ides of March
Oct 07, 2011
Michael Clayton
Sep 28, 2007
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Dec 31, 2002
Leatherheads
Mar 24, 2008
Burn After Reading
Sep 05, 2008
Three Kings
Sep 27, 1999
Up in the Air
Dec 04, 2009
One Fine Day
Dec 20, 1996
The Peacemaker
Sep 26, 1997
Intolerable Cruelty
Sep 02, 2003
The Thin Red Line
Dec 23, 1998
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Jul 25, 2003
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Jun 24, 1999
The American
Aug 31, 2010
Full Tilt Boogie
Jul 31, 1998
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Apr 22, 1988
Red Surf
Dec 01, 1989
The Descendants
Sep 09, 2011
Gravity
Oct 03, 2013
And They're Off
Jun 13, 1982
The Flash
Jun 13, 2023
The Monuments Men
Jan 24, 2014
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
May 07, 2002
Radioman
Dec 07, 2012
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Jun 13, 2018
Paris Hilton, Inc.
Nov 29, 2009
Hail, Caesar!
Feb 05, 2016
Curdled
Sep 06, 1996
Jay Kelly
Nov 14, 2025
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Sep 22, 2022
The Magic Bubble
Mar 26, 1993
Rose McGowan: Being Brave
Apr 09, 2019
Tomorrowland
May 19, 2015
Spy Kids
Mar 18, 2001
Money Monster
May 12, 2016
Plankton Salesmen
Oct 29, 2017
Live 8
Nov 07, 2005
America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis
Dec 26, 2015
Tarantino's Mind
Jan 04, 2006
His Way
Mar 04, 2011
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
A Very Murray Christmas
Dec 04, 2015
IF
May 08, 2024
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain
Dec 01, 2000
A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty
Feb 10, 2004
8
Mar 03, 2012
The Book That Wrote Itself
Aug 08, 2000
Anton Corbijn Inside Out
Mar 22, 2012
Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief
Sep 12, 2017
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Return to Horror High
Jan 28, 1987
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Jan 21, 2016
Fail Safe
Apr 09, 2000
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
May 19, 2007
Grizzly II: Revenge
Feb 17, 2020
Combat Academy
Nov 23, 1986
The Harvest
Nov 05, 1993
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Dec 23, 2001
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
May 15, 2008
Sand and Sorrow
Dec 07, 2007
His Highness Hollywood
Sep 20, 2008
An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube
Jul 31, 2000
The Coen Brothers
Nov 01, 2000
Always at The Carlyle
May 11, 2018
Being George Clooney
Feb 06, 2016
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Aug 13, 2020
Architects of Denial
Oct 06, 2017
Trump @War
Oct 11, 2018
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Nov 13, 2013
Fahrenheit 11/9
Sep 10, 2018
Darfur Now
Nov 02, 2007
The Midnight Sky
Dec 10, 2020
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
May 26, 1993
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Oct 31, 2000
La Classe américaine
Oct 05, 2012
We Come as Friends
Jan 18, 2014
Ticket to Paradise
Sep 08, 2022
A Thousand Cuts
Jan 23, 2020
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Jun 13, 2006
Rewrite for Murder
Sep 14, 1991
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Jan 02, 2021
George Clooney: Leading Man
Aug 01, 2024
Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective
Feb 07, 2023
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Sep 21, 2001
Inside 'Out of Sight'
Good Night, and Good Luck
Jun 07, 2025
Welcome to Collinwood
Oct 04, 2002
Waiting for Woody Allen
Apr 01, 1998
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
The Facts of Life
Aug 24, 1979
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
The Golden Girls
Sep 14, 1985
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Today
Jan 14, 1952
South Park
Aug 13, 1997
Roseanne
Oct 18, 1988
Murphy Brown
Nov 14, 1988
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Street Hawk
Jan 04, 1985
Hotel
Aug 21, 1982
Hunter
Sep 18, 1984
ER
Sep 19, 1994
Crazy like a Fox
Dec 30, 1984
Celebrities Uncensored
Jun 04, 2003
Baby Talk
Mar 08, 1991
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
Throb
Sep 20, 1986
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Mar 30, 1999
Comic Relief
Feb 05, 1988
Live from Studio Five
Sep 14, 2009
Jack's Place
May 26, 1992
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Bodies of Evidence
Jun 18, 1992
Friends
Sep 22, 1994
Hot Prospects
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Red Table Talk
May 07, 2018
100 Years of Warner Bros.
May 25, 2023
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Jun 10, 1992
Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten
Jul 26, 2013
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Jan 12, 2018
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jan 26, 2003
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Jun 10, 1996
The Frame
Apr 09, 2013
Goldene Kamera
Feb 03, 1984
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Sep 23, 2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Kennedy Center Honors
Dec 28, 1978
Some Good News
Mar 29, 2020
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Real Time with Bill Maher
Feb 21, 2003
American Masters
Jun 23, 1986
Beckmann
Jan 25, 1999
Ein Herz für Kinder
Nov 03, 1998
E/R
Sep 16, 1984
Taff
Mar 11, 1997
Catch-22
May 17, 2019
Morgenmagazin
Jul 19, 1992
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Biography
Apr 06, 1987
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors: Broadway
Apr 22, 2025