George Clooney
Born: 1961-05-06 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. His honours include the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2022. Clooney's breakthrough role came as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He established himself as a film star with roles in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a CIA officer in Syriana (2005). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air(2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Jay Kelly (2025). Clooney has directed nine feature films, including the spy film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002), the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March(2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the coming-of-age film The Tender Bar (2021) starring BenAffleck. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). He made his Broadway debut portraying Edward R. Murrow in the play adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck (2025), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.\n\nClooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has been married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney since 2014, with whom he has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Clooney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Jay Kelly as Jay Kelly
- Surviving Ohio State ... (Producer)
- The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship as Self
- Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors: Broadway as Self
- Die Coen-Brüder - Eine amerikanische Geschichte as Self
- The Making of Jay Kelly as Self
2024
- IF as Spaceman (voice)
- The Agency: Central Intelligence ... (Executive Producer)
- Wolfs as Margaret's Man
- George Clooney: Leading Man as Self
2023
- The Flash as Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
- Poker Face as Michael Clayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
- The Boys in the Boat ... (Director)
- Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter as Self
- Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres as Narrator (voice)
- Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? as Self
- New Heights as Self
- Ticket to Paradise as David Cotton
2021
- The Tender Bar ... (Director)
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Grizzly II: Revenge as Ron
- A Thousand Cuts as Self
- Some Good News as Weatherman
- The Midnight Sky as Augustine Lofthouse
- In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat as Self
- Trial by Media ... (Executive Producer)
- The Art of Political Murder ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Catch-22 as Scheisskopf
- On Becoming a God in Central Florida ... (Executive Producer)
- Rose McGowan: Being Brave as Self
2018
- Ocean's Eight ... (Producer)
- Always at The Carlyle as Self
- Trump @War as Self (archive footage)
- Fahrenheit 11/9 as Self (archive footage)
- My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman as Self
- Red Table Talk as Self
2017
- Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
- Architects of Denial as Self
- Suburbicon ... (Director)
- Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief as Self
2016
- Money Monster as Lee Gates
- Hail, Caesar! as Baird Whitlock
- Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You as Self
- Being George Clooney as Self (archive footage)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Tomorrowland as Frank Walker
- A Very Murray Christmas as George Clooney
- Our Brand Is Crisis ... (Producer)
- America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis as Narrator (voice)
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
- The Monuments Men as Lt. Frank Stokes
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee
- We Come as Friends as Self
2013
- Gravity as Matt Kowalski
- Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten as Ron (archive footage)
- August: Osage County ... (Producer)
- The Frame as Matt Kowalsky
- JFK: One PM Central Standard Time as Self- Narrator
2012
- Argo ... (Producer)
- Radioman as Self
- Anton Corbijn Inside Out as Self
- La Classe américaine as Self
- 8 as David Boies
2011
- His Way as Self
- The Descendants as Matt King
- The Ides of March as Mike Morris
2010
- The American as Jack / Edward
- Memphis Beat ... (Producer)
2009
- Fantastic Mr. Fox as Mr. Fox (voice)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats as Lyn Cassady
- The Informant! ... (Executive Producer)
- Paris Hilton, Inc. as Self (archive footage)
- Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
- Live from Studio Five as Self
- Playground ... (Executive Producer)
2008
- Burn After Reading as Harry Pfarrer
- Leatherheads as Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self
- His Highness Hollywood as Self
- DC Insiders Run Amuck as Self
- Finding the Burn as Self / Harry Pfarrer (archive footage)
- Welcome Back, George as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Ocean's Thirteen as Danny Ocean
- Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
- Darfur Now as Self
- Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens as Self
- Sand and Sorrow as Narrator (voice) / Self
- Wind Chill ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- A Scanner Darkly ... (Executive Producer)
- The Good German as Jake Geismar
- Pu-239 ... (Executive Producer)
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2005
- The Jacket ... (Producer)
- Syriana as Bob Barnes
- Rumor Has It... ... (Executive Producer)
- Live 8 as Self
- The Big Empty ... (Executive Producer)
- Unscripted ... (Producer)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. as Fred Friendly
- Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Criminal ... (Producer)
- Ocean's Twelve as Danny Ocean
- A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty as Self
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Devlin
- Intolerable Cruelty as Miles
- K Street ... (Producer)
- Celebrities Uncensored as Self
2002
- Insomnia ... (Executive Producer)
- Solaris as Chris Kelvin
- Far from Heaven ... (Executive Producer)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Jim Byrd
- Welcome to Collinwood as Jerzy
- 'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con as Self
2001
- Ocean's Eleven as Danny Ocean
- Rock Star ... (Executive Producer)
- Spy Kids as Devlin
- Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Batman (archive footage)
- America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2000
- Fail Safe as Col. Jack Grady
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Everett
- The Perfect Storm as Capt. Billy Tyne
- Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' as Self
- The Coen Brothers as Self
- The Book That Wrote Itself as George Clooney
- Inside Look: Down from the Mountain as Self
- An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube as Self
1999
- Beckmann as Self
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as Dr. Gouache (voice)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
- Three Kings as Archie Gates
1998
- Out of Sight as Jack Foley
- The Thin Red Line as Capt. Charles Bosche
- Parkinson as Self
- Full Tilt Boogie as Self
- Ein Herz für Kinder as Self
- The Entertainment Biz as Self
- Inside 'Out of Sight' as Himself
- Waiting for Woody Allen as Self
1997
- South Park as Sparky (voice)
- Leute heute as Self
- Taff as self
- The Peacemaker as Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
- Batman & Robin as Bruce Wayne / Batman
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- From Dusk Till Dawn as Seth Gecko
- Curdled as Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
- One Fine Day as Jack Taylor
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1993
- The Harvest as Lip Syncing Transvestite
- Without Warning: Terror in the Towers as Kevin Shea
- The Magic Bubble as Mac
1992
- Morgenmagazin as Self
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Presenter
- Bodies of Evidence as Det. Ryan Walker
- Jack's Place
1991
- Rewrite for Murder as Nick Bianco
- Baby Talk as Joe
1989
- Red Surf as Remar
1988
1987
- Biography as George Clooney
- Return to Horror High as Oliver
1986
- American Masters as Self
- Combat Academy as Maj. Biff Woods
- Throb
1985
- The Golden Girls as Bobby Hopkins
- Street Hawk as Kevin Stark
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Kip Howard
- Hunter as Matthew Winfield
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Crazy like a Fox as Skip Woods
- E/R as Ace
1982
1981
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1979
- The Facts of Life as George Burnett
1978
- The Kennedy Center Honors as Self - Honoree
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter