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George Timothy Clooney^[2] (born May 6, ) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in both blockbuster 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.^[3][4]

Clooney started acting in television in the late s, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (–), 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 ()^[5][6] followed by Batman & Robin (), Out of Sight (), Three Kings (), The Perfect Storm () and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from to Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana (), and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (), and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air () and The Descendants ().

He has also starred in Burn After Reading (), The American (), Gravity (), Hail, Caesar! () and Ticket to Paradise ().

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Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (), and has since directed the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (), the political drama The Ides of March (), the war film The Monuments Men (), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky () and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat ().

He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (). As of , he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.^[7][8]

Clooney was included on Time's annual Time list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from to ^[9] He is also noted for his political and economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since ^[10][11][12] Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[13]

Early life

Clooney was born on May 6, , 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 fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, making Clooney and President 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 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 to ; 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.

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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 , but he did not pass the first round of player cuts and was not offered a contract.^[29] He attended Northern Kentucky University from to , 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, selling insurance door to door, stocking shelves, working in construction, and cutting tobacco.^[25][31]

Career

See also: George Clooney filmography

Early work (–)

Clooney's first role was as an extra in the television miniseries Centennial in , 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 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 , Clooney played one of the lead roles in the comedy-horror film Return of the Killer Tomatoes.^[34] In , 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 (–)

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 to After leaving the series in , 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 and ^[38][39] He also earned three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in , , and (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 , 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 and directorial debut (–)

After leaving ER, Clooney starred in commercially successful films including Wolfgang Petersen's disaster filmThe Perfect Storm () which was a box office success.

The same year he starred in the Coen brothers adventure comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? () 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 classic film Sullivan's Travels. This film is set in 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 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 , Clooney reunited with Soderbergh for the heist comedy Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the s 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 $&#;million worldwide (he appeared, but did not star, in Gravity, which has a $ million worldwide box office).^[46][47]Ocean's Eleven inspired two sequels starring Clooney, Ocean's Twelve in ^[48] and Ocean's Thirteen in ^[49] In , 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 () an adaptation of the acclaimed film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 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 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 , Clooney reunited with the Coen brothers in the romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones.

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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 s comedy. He scores with his willingness to mock his above-average charisma level and the chiseled chin, cover-guy good looks".^[52]

Acclaim (–)

In , 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 s television journalist Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator Joseph McCarthy.

At the 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 (), a film noir directed by Soderbergh that is set in post-World War II Germany.

In August , Clooney and Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Pictures. In October , 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, , Clooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Michael Clayton () losing to Daniel Day-Lewis who won for Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood ().

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Later that year, he directed his third film, Leatherheads, in which he also starred. On April 4, , 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 , 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 The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival to positive reviews.

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Also in November , he voiced the title character opposite Meryl Streep as Mrs. Fox in Wes Anderson's animated featureFantastic 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 a wide release on December 25, 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 (), based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth and directed by Anton Corbijn.^[59]

As of ^[update], Clooney is represented by Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA).^[60] In , 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 , 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 (), a space thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón.^[61]

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

Career slump and resurgence (–present)

In , Clooney co-wrote, directed and starred in The Monuments Men, an adaptation 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 (), an adaptation of the play of the same name.

The film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.^[68]

His next film was Tomorrowland (), 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 s, which premiered in February Clooney portrayed Baird Whitlock, a Robert Taylor-type film star who is kidnapped during the production of a film.

Josh Brolin co-starred as fixerEddie Mannix.^[71] Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for the Jodie Foster-directed thriller Money Monster (), 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 , his directorial project Suburbicon a s-set crime comedy was released.

It stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, from a script written by the Coen brothers in the s, that they had originally intended to direct themselves.^[73] He received the AFI Life Achievement Award on June 7, ^[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] In , Clooney returned to television, starring, directing and producing the Hulu historical miniseries Catch, 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, , 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 co-starred opposite Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo.

The film received mixed reviews and was a financial flop. It went on to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He also directed The Tender Bar, based upon the memoir of the same name by J. R. Moehringer, for Amazon Studios with Ben Affleck in the lead. The coming-of-age film had its nationwide premiere on December 22, , and began streaming on Amazon Prime Video on January 7, ^[81] Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film earned Affleck Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

In February , The Hollywood Reporter reported that Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures would be teaming with Sports Illustrated Studios and Studios to produce a docuseries about the Ohio State University abuse scandal, and that the series would be based on an October Sports Illustrated article by Jon Wertheim.^[82]HBO announced in June that the documentary had started production, with a planned debut on HBO and HBO MAX.^[83][84] In , 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, , but was pushed by a month to October 21, ^[85][86] In , Clooney reprised the role of Bruce Wayne / Batman in a cameo in The Flash. Clooney next film as a director was the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat which was released on December 25, The film starred Callum Turner and Joel Edgerton and received mixed reviews.

The film was based on the book of the same name by Daniel James Brown.

Clooney re-teamed with Brad Pitt for the thriller film Wolfs written and directed by Jon Watts.^[87] In , he was cast in the lead role in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly for Netflix.^[88] In , Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut as an actor and playwright in a stage adaption of his film Good Night, and Good Luck.^[89]

Activism and public advocacy

Political views

Clooney supported both of Barack Obama's ^[90] and presidential campaigns.^[91] Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidential election.^[92] Clooney endorsed Joe Biden for the presidential election,^[93] and he hosted a virtual fundraiser for Biden together with Obama in July ^[94] In a July op-ed for The New York Times, Clooney called for Biden to withdraw from the presidential election weeks after he hosted another fundraiser for Biden.^[95][96][97]

Clooney has also made humorous statements against Republican Party figures.

In , 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".^[98] 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.^[99]

Humanitarian work

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.^[] In February , he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with New York Times columnist Nicholas D.

Kristof.^[] In January , he organized the telethon Hope for Haiti Now,^[] which collected donations for the Haiti earthquake victims.^[]

In March , 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.^[] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.^[][] In September , 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.^[]

On August 7, , George and Amal Clooney donated $, 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 people and injured more than 5,^[]

War in Darfur (Sudan)

Clooney has advocated a resolution of the Darfur conflict.^[] He spoke at a Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C.

In April , 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 , it was released on DVD, with the sale proceeds being 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 both governments to pressure Sudan's government.^[]

On March 25, , 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.^[] He narrated and was co-executive producer of the documentary Sand and Sorrow.^[] Clooney also appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now, a call-to-action film released in November for people all over the world to help stop the Darfur crisis.^[] In December , Clooney and fellow actor Don Cheadle received the Summit Peace Award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome.

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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."^[] On January 18, , the United Nations announced Clooney's appointment as a UN messenger of peace, effective January ^[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 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.^[]

Clooney and Prendergast co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece in May , 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.^[]

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

Armenian genocide recognition

Clooney supports recognition of the Armenian genocide.

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

Syrian refugees

In May , 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.^[] In March , he and his wife Amal 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.^[]

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

LGBT rights

Clooney is a supporter of LGBT rights.^[] On March 28, , 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, , 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."^[][]

Personal life

Relationships

Clooney dated actress Kelly Preston from to During this relationship, he purchased a Vietnamese Pot-belliedpig 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 He has jokingly referred to Max as the longest relationship he had ever had.^[]

Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from to ^[] He also had a relationship with actress Ginger Lynn Allen.^[][][] In , Clooney dated Cameron Diaz and Frances Fisher.^[] Clooney dated French reality TV personality Céline Balitran (–).^[] In , he was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu.^[] After meeting British model Lisa Snowdon in , he had a five-year on-again, off-again relationship with her.^[] Clooney dated Renée Zellweger (), Jennifer Siebel Newsom ()^[]Krista Allen (–),^[] and Linda Thompson ().^[] In June , he started dating reality personality Sarah Larson, but the couple broke up in May ^[] In July , Clooney was in a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June ^[][] In July , Clooney started dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler,^[] and they ended their relationship in July ^[]

Clooney became engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on April 28, ^[][] 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.^[]

In July , Clooney publicly mocked the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail after it claimed his fiancée's mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds.^[] When the tabloid apologized for its false story, Clooney refused to accept the apology.

He called the paper "the worst kind of tabloid.

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One that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers."^[] On August 7, , Clooney and Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea of the United Kingdom.^[] Alamuddin and Clooney were officially married on September 27, , at Ca' Farsetti.^[] They were married by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.^[]

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

On February 9, , it was reported by the CBS talk show, The Talk, that Amal was pregnant, and that they were expecting twins.^[] On June 6, , Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella, and a son, Alexander.^[] In , Clooney revealed to Jimmy Kimmel and Graham Norton on their respectivetalk shows that the twins can speak Italian fluently, despite neither Clooney nor Alamuddin speaking the language.^[]

Real estate

Clooney has property in Los Angeles.

He purchased the 7,square-foot (&#;m²) house in through his 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 owns a home in Los Cabos, Mexico, that is next door to the home of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.^[] In , Clooney and his wife Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed^[] Mill House on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England^[] at a cost of around £10&#;million.^[] In May , 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.^[]

Motorcycle accidents

On September 21, , 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,^[] while Clooney said that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped his motorcycle. On October 9, , 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.^[]

On July 10, , Clooney was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle to a film set in Sardinia.

He was hospitalized with minor injuries.^[][]

Sports

Growing up around Cincinnati, Clooney is a fan of the Cincinnati Bengals and Cincinnati Reds.^[] He tried out to be a Red in ^[] Clooney is also an association football fan and supports EFL Championship club Derby County.^[][]

Relationship with the media

In November , 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 , Clooney had rejected an apology from the Daily Mail for printing a false story, calling the Mail the "worst kind of tabloid."^[]

In the media

Clooney has appeared in commercials outside the U.S. for Fiat, Nespresso, Martini vermouth, Omega, Warburtons and DNB ASA Eiendom (a Norwegian bank and real estate agency).^[][][][][][] Clooney was named one of Time's Most Influential People in the World in , and ^[][][] He is sometimes described as one of the most handsome men in the world.^[][] In , TV Guide ranked Clooney No.

1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.^[] The cover story in a February issue of Time was headlined with: "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star".^[]

He was parodied in the South Park episode "Smug Alert!", which criticizes his acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards, which The Atlantic called "arrogant, smug, and condescending."^[] 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.^[]

Publications

Awards and nominations

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

During 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, as well as a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.

For his role in The Descendants, he won a Golden Globe Award^[] and was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards: Best Lead Actor and Best Cast.^[] On January 11, , Clooney was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

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