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George Timothy Clooney(born May

6, 1961) is an American actor, filmdirector, producer, and screenwriter.

He has received threeGolden Globe

Awardsfor his work as an actor and

twoAcademy Awards, one for acting

and the other for producing.

Clooney made his acting debut on

television in 1978, and later gained

wide recognition in his role as Dr.

Doug Rosson the long-running

medical drama ERfrom 1994 to1999, for which he received

two Emmy Awardnominations. While
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working on ER, he began attracting a

variety of leading roles in films,including Batman & Robin(1997)

and Out of Sight(1998), in which he

first worked with long-time

collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In

1999, Clooney took the lead role

in Three Kings, a well-received war

satire set during the Gulf War. In2001, Clooney's fame widened with

the release of his biggest commercial

success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of

the film trilogy, a remakeof the 1960

filmwith Frank Sinatraas Danny
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2013, he received theAcademy

Award for Best Picturefor producingthe filmArgo, alongside Ben

Affleckand Grant Heslov. He is the

only person ever to be nominated

forAcademy Awardsin six

categories.[1]

In 2005, TV Guideranked Clooney

#1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All

Time" list.[2]In 2009, he was included

in Time's annual TIME 100as one of

the "Most Influential People in theWorld."[3]
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member of the Council on Foreign

Relations.[7]

Contents

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1 Early life

2 Careero 2.1 Early work, 197893o 2.2 Breakthrough, 199499o 2.3 2000 2010; after ERo 2.4 2011present

3 Political viewso 3.1 In the U.S.o 3.2 Humanitarian worko 3.3 Darfur

4 Controversy 5 Personal life

o 5.1 Relationshipso 5.2 Real estateo 5.3 Motorcycle accident
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6 In the media 7 Awards and nominations 8 Filmography 9 References 10 External links

Early life

Clooney was born in Lexington,Kentucky, in 1961.[8][9][10]His mother,

Nina Bruce (ne Warren),[11]was a

beauty pageant queen and city

councilwoman. His father, Nick

Clooney, is a former anchorman,

game show host, and

hostedAMCfor five years in the late90s.[12]Clooney has Irish, German,

English, Scottish, and Dutch
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ancestry.[13]His maternal four times

great-grandmother, Mary AnnSparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy

Hanks(the mother of

PresidentAbraham

Lincoln).[14][15]Clooney has an older

sister, Adelia (known as

Ada);[16]through his aunt and

uncle Rosemary Clooneyand JosFerrer, he is cousins with

actors Migueland Rafael

Ferrer.[17]His cousin, Gabriel Ferre, is

married to singer,Debby Boone.[18]
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Clooney was raised a strict Roman

Catholic,[19]

but has said he does notknow if he believes in Heaven, or

even God.[20]He has said, "Yes, we

were Catholic, big time, whole family,

whole group."[21]He began his

education at the Blessed Sacrament

School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

Spending part of his childhoodin Ohio, he attended St. Michael's

School in Columbus; then Western

Row Elementary School (a public

school) in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to

1974; and St. Susanna School in
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Mason, where he served as an altar

boy. The Clooneys moved back toKentucky when George was midway

through the seventh grade.[22]

In middle school, Clooney

developed Bell's palsy, a 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."[21]
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After his parents moved toAugusta,

Kentucky, Clooney attendedAugustaHigh School. He has stated that he

earned all As and a B in

school,[23]and was an enthusiastic

baseball and basketball player. He

tried out to play professional baseball

with the Cincinnati Redsin 1977, but

he did not pass the first round ofplayer cuts, and was not offered a

contract.[24]He attended Northern

Kentucky Universityfrom 1979 to

1981, majoring in Broadcast

Journalism, and very briefly attended
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the University of Cincinnati, but did

not graduate from either.[25]

He mademoney selling women's shoes,

insurance door-to-door, stocking

shelves, working construction, and

cutting tobacco.[20][26]Career

Early work, 197893

Clooney's first role was as an extrain

the television mini-

series Centennialin 1978, which was

based on the novel of the same

nameby James A. Michener, andwas partly filmed in Clooney's

hometown of Augusta,
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Kentucky.[27][28]Clooney's first major

role came in 1984 in the short-livedsitcom E/R(not to be confused

with ER, the better-known hospital

drama, on which Clooney also co-

starred a decade later). He played a

handyman on the series The Facts of

Life, and appeared as Bobby

Hopkins, a detective, on an episodeofThe Golden Girls. His first

prominent role was a semi-regular

supporting role in the

sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne

Barr's supervisor Booker Brooks,
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followed by the role of a construction

worker on Baby Talk, a co-starringrole on the CBS drama Bodies of

Evidenceas Detective Ryan Walker,

and then a year-long turn as Det.

James Falconer onSisters. In 1988,

Clooney also played a role in Return

of the Killer Tomatoes.[29]Breakthrough, 199499

Clooney rose to fame when he

played Dr. Doug Ross,

alongsideAnthony Edwards, Julianna

Margulies, and Noah Wyle, on the hit

NBC drama ERfrom 1994 to 1999.
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After leaving the series in 1999, he

made a cameo appearancein the 6thseason and returned for a guest spot

in the show's final season.[30]For his

work on the series, Clooney received

twoEmmy Awardnominations

for Outstanding Lead Actor In A

Drama Seriesin 1995 and

1996.[31][32]He also earnedthree Golden Globe

Awardnominations for Best Actor

Television Series Dramain 1995,

1996, and 1997 (losing to co-

starAnthony Edwards).[33][34]
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Clooney began appearing in films

while working on ER. His first majorHollywood role was in From Dusk till

Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez.

He followed its success with One

Fine Daywith Michelle Pfeiffer,

and The Peacemakerwith Nicole

Kidman. Clooney was then cast

as Batmanin JoelSchumacher's Batman & Robin,

which was a modest box office

performer, but a critical failure (with

Clooney himself calling the film "a

waste of money"). In 1998, he co-
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starred in Out of

Sightopposite Jennifer Lopez,marking the first of his many

collaborations with director Steven

Soderbergh. He also starred in Three

Kingsduring the last weeks of his

contract with ER.20002010; after ER

George Clooney cast his hands and shoesin the Grauman's Chinese Theatrein2007.[35]
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George Clooney at the premiere ofThe MenWho Stare At Goatsin the2009 TorontoInternational Film Festival

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in

the commercially successful

films The Perfect Stormand O

Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 2001,

he teamed up with Soderbergh againfor Ocean's Eleven, aremakeof the

1960s Rat Packfilm of the same
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name. As of 2011, it was Clooney's

most successful film, earning morethan $450 million worldwide.[36]The

film spawned two sequels starring

Clooney,Ocean's Twelvein 2004

and Ocean's Thirteenin 2007.

In 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh co-

founded Section Eight Productions,

for which Grant Heslovwas president

of television. Clooney made his

directorial debut in the 2002

film Confessions of a DangerousMind, based on the autobiography of

TV producer Chuck Barris. Though
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the film didn't do well at the box

office, Clooney's direction showedpromise.[37]

In 2005, Clooney starred in Syriana,

which was based loosely on

former Central Intelligence

Agencyagent Robert Baer's memoirs

of his service in the Middle East. He

suffered an accident on the set

of Syriana, which caused a brain

injury with complications from a

punctured dura.

[38]

The same year hedirected, produced, and starred

in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film
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about 1950s television

journalist Edward R. Murrow'sfamous war of words with

SenatorJoseph McCarthy. At the

2006 Academy Awards, Clooney was

nominated for Best Directorand Best

Original Screenplayfor Good Night,

and Good Luck, as well as Best

Supporting Actorfor Syriana. He wonthe Oscar for his role in Syriana.

Clooney next appeared in The Good

German(2006), a film noirdirectedby Soderbergh that is set in post-

World War II Germany. In August
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2006, Clooney and Heslov started

the productioncompany Smokehouse Pictures. In

October 2006, Clooney received

theAmerican Cinematheque Award,

which honors someone in the

entertainment industry who has made

"a significant contribution to the art of

motion pictures".[39]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,
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in which he also starred. On April 4,

2008,Varietyreported that Clooneyhad quietly resigned from the Writers

Guild of Americaover 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 writingcredit alongside Duncan Brantley

and Rick Reilly, who had worked on

the screenplay for 17 years. Clooney

lost an arbitration vote 21, and

withdrew from the union over the
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decision. He became a "financial

corestatus" non-member, meaninghe no longer has voting rights, and

cannot run for office or attend

membership meetings, according to

the WGA's constitution.[40]

Clooney at the 2012National Board ofReview Awards
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He next co-starred with Ewan

McGregorand Kevin Spaceyin TheMen Who Stare At Goats, which was

directed by Heslov and released in

November 2009. Also in November

2009, he voiced Mr. Fox in Wes

Anderson's animated

featureFantastic Mr. Fox. The same

year, Clooney starred in Up in the Air,which was initially given limited

release, and then wide-released on

December 25, 2009. For his

performance in the film, which was

directed byJason Reitman, he was
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nominated for a Golden Globe,

a Screen Actors GuildAward, BAFTA, and anAcademy

Award. 2010 saw the release of The

American, based on the novelA Very

Private Gentlemanby Martin

Boothand directed byAnton Corbijn.

Clooney played the lead role, and

was a co-producer of the film.2011present

As of 2011, Clooney is represented

by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman

of Creative Artists Agency(CAA).[41]
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In 2011 Clooney starred in The

Descendantsas a husband whosewife 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 Actorand the Golden Globe

Award for Best Actor Motion Picture

Drama. Also, he was nominated forthe Screen Actors Guild for Best

Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best

Actor, and theAcademy Award for

Best Actor. He was nominated for
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theAcademy Award for Best Adapted

Screenplayfor The Ides of March.In 2013, Clooney won the Golden

Globe for Best Motion Picture -

Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best

Pictureand theAcademy Award for

Best Picturefor producingArgo. He is

the only person in Academy Award

history to be nominated for Oscars in

six different categories: Best Picture,

Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor,

Best Director, Best OriginalScreenplay and Best Adapted

Screenplay.
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Clooney co-starred with Sandra

Bullockin Gravity(2013), a sciencefiction film directed byAlfonso

Cuarn.[42]He co-wrote, directed and

starred inThe Monuments Men, an

adaption of The Monuments Men:

Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the

Greatest Treasure Hunt in

Historyby Robert M.Edsel.[43]Clooney also

producedAugust: Osage

County(2013), an adaptation of the

play of the same name. The film
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