George Clooney, whose full name is George Timothy Clooney, is an American actor, film producer as well as director. Clooney has received three Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, one for acting in Syriana (2006) and other for co-producing Argo (2012). Clooney received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
In 1978, he made his acting debut on television and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the medical drama ER between 1994 and 1999, for which Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Clooney began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, while working on ER, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), and also the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), in which he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who became a long-time collaborator. Clooney took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War in 1999.
His fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy remake Ocean’s Eleven, the first of what became a trilogy, starring Clooney in 2001. Clooney made his directorial debut a year later with the biographical spy comedy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and has since directed the historical drama such as Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the sports comedy Leatherheads (2008), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), as well as the war film The Monuments Men (2014). George won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005), and subsequently gotten the Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and also The Descendants (2011). Clooney received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo in 2013. George has been nominated for Oscars in six different categories.
Clooney was included in Time’s annual Time 100, in 2009, as one of the most influential people globally. Clooney is also noted for his political and economic activism. Clooney has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 31st January, 2008 and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Age
George Timothy was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky.
Family
Clooney’s mother, Nina Bruce, was a beauty queen and city councilwoman while his father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman as well as television host, including five years on the AMC network and his maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. He has an older sister known as Adelia, who also called Ada.
Amal Clooney
on 28 April 2014, Amal got engaged to actor Clooney, the two first met through a mutual friend in July 2013 and they obtained marriage licences in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London on 7 August 2014. The two got married in Venice’s city hall on 27 September 2014. It was reported by the CBS talk show The Talk, in February 2017, that Amal was pregnant and friend Matt Damon confirmed the pregnancy to Entertainment Tonight. Amal gave birth to fraternal twins in June 2017.
Suburbicon
It is a 2017 American black comedy film which was written and directed by Clooney, and co-written by the Coen brothers and Grant Heslov. The film stars such as Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and also Oscar Isaac. Follows a mild-mannered father who has to face his demons after a home invasion shakes his quaint neighborhood in 1959. It’s loosely based on a 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in which a black family joined the previously all-white neighborhood, who leads in racism and violence against the family.
George Clooney Net worth
George Clooney’s net worth in 2020 is approximately $500 million dollars, which makes him one of the most sought-after A list actors in Hollywood, and being among the richest actors in the world.
George Clooney Movies
-Return to Horror High
-Grizzly II: The Predator
-Return of the Killer Tomatoes
-Red Surf
-Unbecoming Age
-The Harvest
-From Dusk till Dawn
-One Fine Day
-Batman & Robin
-The Peacemaker
-The Thin Red Line
-Out of Sight
-Waiting for Woody
-Three Kings
-The Book That Wrote Itself
-South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
-The Perfect Storm
-O Brother, Where Art Thou?
-Ocean’s Eleven
-Spy Kids
-Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
-Solaris
-Welcome to Collinwood
-Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
-Intolerable Cruelty
-Ocean’s Twelve
-Good Night, and Good Luck
-Syriana
-The Good German
-Michael Clayton
-Darfur Now
-Ocean’s Thirteen
-Sand and Sorrow
-Leatherheads
-Burn After Reading
-Fantastic Mr. Fox
-The Men Who Stare at Goats
-Up in the Air
-The American
-The Ides of March
-The Descendants
-Gravity
-The Monuments Men
-Annie
-Tomorrowland
-A Very Murray Christmas
-Hail, Caesar!
-Money Monster
-The Midnight Sky
