George Clooney

George Clooney spent 10 years as an acting unknown until his role as Dr. Doug Ross in the hospital drama “E.R.” made him TV's hottest heartthrob in 1994. He left the show in 1999 and moved on to an even more successful career in films, as an actor, producer and sometime director.... More

George Clooney spent 10 years as an acting unknown until his role as Dr. Doug Ross in the hospital drama “E.R.” made him TV's hottest heartthrob in 1994. He left the show in 1999 and moved on to an even more successful career in films, as an actor, producer and sometime director.

Clooney comes from a show business family. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster of many years who hosted a talk show in Cincinnati and often invited George into the studios when he was as young as 5. He is also the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney. 

His films include Steven Soderbergh's “Out of Sight” (with Jennifer Lopez), the Coen brothers' comedy “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000, with Holly Hunter), and “Ocean's Eleven” and “Ocean's Twelve” (2001 and 2004, with Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle). Clooney's feature directing debut was “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” the 2002 film based on the writings of game show impresario Chuck Barris. In 2005 he co-wrote, directed and acted in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the biographical feature about newsman Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn). The film earned Clooney Oscar nominations in 2006 for writing and directing. The same year he won the Oscar as best supporting actor for his role as a CIA agent in the political thriller “Syriana.”

George Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993.  He says he will never get married again, nor have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman both bet $10,000 each that he would be a father before he turned 40. They were both wrong, and each sent him a check. He returned the money, betting double or nothing that he won't have kids by age 50.