Biography of George Clooney


One of the most attractive men of our time, George Clooney is an Oscar-winning actor who won fame with his roles as Dr Doug Ross in the TV series “Ambulance” and Danny Ocean in the film “Eleven Ocean’s Friends.”

Early years

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. His father, Nick, has been a TV star and news anchor for many years.

In connection with the specifics of his father’s work, George and his older sister, Ada, often travel with their parents from place to place, traveling to the states of Kentucky and Ohio. In 1974, they finally settle in the small town of Augusta, Kentucky.

There, despite the fame of his father, Clooney leads a rather modest life. The boy grew up in a very friendly family.

For the first time George appears on the screens at the age of five, playing the heroes of a local talk show that his father leads. However, in high school acting skills he has to

leave because of the developed peripheral paralysis of the facial nerve – a disease that he, subsequently, managed to overcome.

Passion for acting

At school, playing sports interested George much more books, but still he was good at learning. A great baseball player, Clooney, at the age of 16, even goes to the professional team of the “Cincinnati Reds”.

Soon George goes to college for the faculty of television journalism. However, not finding out the qualities necessary for this profession, and also not being able to withstand constant comparisons with his father, he leaves studies.

For a while Clooney lingers in Cincinnati, doing everything she had to do. One day, when he was collecting tobacco leaves on the field, his cousin Miguel Ferrer called him. Miguel with his father just shot a film about horse racing in Kentucky, and invited his brother to recall the old days. The film did not appear on the screens, but the old passion for acting again returns to George.

Moving to Los Angeles

Miguel warmly advises his brother to move to Los Angeles, try his hand at

acting, which he does. To make ends meet, George takes on any work.

And soon gets an episodic role in the popular teen comedy “Facts from Life”, filmed from 1985 to 1987, and later appears in a number of television series. There are also small roles in the cinema for him, as, for example, the role of a low-profile singer-transvestite in the thriller “Harvest”, released on screens in 1993.

In Hollywood, Clooney works all the time, but he lives in anticipation of a big breakthrough.

Great Breakthrough

Everything changes in 1994, when Clooney is confirmed for the role of Dr. Doug Ross, attentive pediatrician and heartthrob, in the medical drama of NBC’s “First Aid” TV channel. The debut show took place in September of the same year, and Clooney turns into a star of the series, attracting the attention of the powerful film world.

In 1996, he fights vampires with Quentin Tarantino in Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn.” In the romantic comedy “One fine day,” Clooney plays the divorced father of the family, falling in love with a lonely mother. Trying on the role of a Knight-in-the-cloak, he appears in the lead role in the summer blockbuster in 1997 “Batman and Robin.” Next year, Clooney, along with Jennifer Lopez, plays in Stephen Soderbergh’s “Out of sight”. It is shot and in the tape Terrence Malik’s “Thin red line.”

In 1999, Clooney returned to the “First Aid”, since this time, fully committed to the world of cinema.

Elite of Hollywood

In 2001 Clooney is removed from Steven Soderbergh in the new version of “Ocean’s Eleven”. The picture is such a success – both during and after rental – that this is followed by two consecutive extensions: “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Ocean’s Thirteen.”

In 2002, Cluny’s directorial debut with the film “Confessions of a Dangerous Man” took place. However, his box office was not very high, and he did not arouse the interest of critics.

In 2005, Clooney receives an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the film “Sirian”, in which he also acts as a producer. In the same year, the actor was nominated for a prize and with another significant project, “Good Night and Good Luck”, in which he not only directed the film, but also co-wrote the script, describing, in part, his father’s experience.

In 2011, in “The Ides of March”, Clooney performs in three roles at once, becoming the star of the film, his director and co-author of the script. In this political drama, we see the actor in the role of presidential candidate.

In the same year Clooney brilliantly performs the main role in the family drama “Descendants.” For the role of husband and father, who has to cope with the challenges of fate and put up with unpleasant discoveries after his wife is seriously injured in an accident on the water, the actor receives the Golden Globe Award.

In 2013, Clooney receives the American Academy Award for the “Argo” tape – the production of the book by former CIA agent Tony Mendez “Master of Reincarnation” and Joshua Bearman’s article in the magazine “Wired” titled “The Great Escape”.

Political campaigns

The ardent liberal Clooney often becomes a target for attacks on the part of right-wing politicians. The actor was one of the first who opposed the war in Iraq.

In 2006, Clooney, along with his father and several friends, travels across the western part of the Sudan known as Darfur, filming the destruction caused by the fighting and the desperate attempts of the world community to create camps for refugees affected by the war.

In 2007, at the 8th Annual International Summit of Nobel Laureates, winners of the Peace Prize, Clooney was awarded the International Summit Prize. Next year he is officially appointed as the UN Goodwill Ambassador.

Personal life

Clooney was married to American actress Talia Bolss. The marriage was short-lived, and, after the divorce, Cluny swears that he will never lead a family or children.

In 2011, he begins to meet with American actress Stacey Keibler. But two years later, in 2013, a message appears that the couple broke up.

In April 2014, Clooney, whom the tabloid dubbed “Hollywood’s most bachelor bachelor”, makes the offer of 36-year-old Amal Alamuddin – an Englishwoman of Lebanese descent, a human rights lawyer engaged in such high-profile cases as, for example, the case of the founder of “Wikileaks” Julian Assange. Their wedding took place on September 27, 2014 in the Italian city of Venice.


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Biography of George Clooney