George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters 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.
Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), 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 (1996), followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana(2005) and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).
Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and has since directed the historical drama Good Night and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
Clooney 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 been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Known for
Friends
Michael Mitchell
South Park
Sparky (voice)
American Masters
Self
Murder, She Wrote
Kip Howard
ER
Doug Ross
The Golden Girls
Bobby Hopkins
The Facts of Life
George Burnett
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self / Presenter
Hunter
Matthew Winfield
Biography
George Clooney
Murphy Brown
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self - Honoree
IF
Spaceman (voice)
E/R
Ace
Hotel
The Oscars
Self
The Flash
Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
Crazy like a Fox
Skip Woods
Street Hawk
Kevin Stark
Ocean's Eleven
Danny Ocean
Catch-22
Scheisskopf
Comic Relief
Jack's Place
Tomorrowland
Frank Walker
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Dr. Gouache (voice)
Wolfs
Margaret's Man
Roseanne
Throb
Gravity
Matt Kowalski
Batman & Robin
Bruce Wayne / Batman
Ocean's Twelve
Danny Ocean
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox (voice)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Seth Gecko
Ocean's Thirteen
Danny Ocean
Three Kings
Archie Gates
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Everett
Spy Kids
Devlin
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Devlin
The American
Jack / Edward
The Perfect Storm
Capt. Billy Tyne
The Monuments Men
Lt. Frank Stokes
Burn After Reading
Harry Pfarrer
Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham
The Thin Red Line
Capt. Charles Bosche
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
The Ides of March
Mike Morris
The Peacemaker
Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
Ticket to Paradise
David Cotton
Bodies of Evidence
Det. Ryan Walker
Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton
Hail, Caesar!
Baird Whitlock
Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly
Money Monster
Lee Gates
Out of Sight
Jack Foley
Syriana
Bob Barnes
Combat Academy
Maj. Biff Woods
One Fine Day
Jack Taylor
The Entertainment Biz
Self
The Descendants
Matt King
Intolerable Cruelty
Miles
Architects of Denial
Self
The Midnight Sky
Augustine Lofthouse
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Fred Friendly
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Batman (archive footage)
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Lyn Cassady
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Jim Byrd
Solaris
Chris Kelvin
Hot Prospects
Ben Braddock
Return to Horror High
Oliver
Leatherheads
Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
Curdled
Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Self
Radioman
Self
The Good German
Jake Geismar
Live 8
Self
A Very Murray Christmas
George Clooney
Welcome to Collinwood
Jerzy
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Matt Stevens
His Way
Self
Grizzly II: Revenge
Ron
Fahrenheit 11/9
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
Good Night, and Good Luck
Edward R. Murrow
Always at The Carlyle
Self
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors: Broadway
Self
Touch of Evil
The Tyrant
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Self
Full Tilt Boogie
Self
Fail Safe
Col. Jack Grady
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Self
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Self
8
David Boies
Red Surf
Remar
Being George Clooney
Self (archive footage)
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Narrator
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
Tarantino's Mind
Seth Gecko (archive footage)
Trump @War
Self (archive footage)
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Self- Narrator
Rose McGowan: Being Brave
Self
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Rick Stepjack
Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective
Self (archive footage)
Inside 'Out of Sight'
Himself
The Book That Wrote Itself
George Clooney
Darfur Now
Self
An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube
Himself
The Harvest
Lip Syncing Transvestite
The Magic Bubble
Mac
La Classe américaine
Self
His Highness Hollywood
Self
The Daily Show
Self
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
Self
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
Kevin Shea
Sand and Sorrow
Narrator / Self
Baby Talk
Joe
Paris Hilton, Inc.
Self (archive footage)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
Rewrite for Murder
Nick Bianco
A Thousand Cuts
himself
Anton Corbijn Inside Out
Self
Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief
Self
We Come as Friends
Self
America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis
Narrator (voice)
The Coen Brothers
Self
A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Waiting for Woody
Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
George Clooney: Leading Man
Self
And They're Off
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Morgenmagazin
Self
Parkinson
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Self - Guest
Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten
Ron (archive footage)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Self
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Self
Some Good News
Weatherman
Leute heute
Self
Red Table Talk
Self
Beckmann
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
Taff
self
Today
Self
Live from Studio Five
Self
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Self
Entertainment Tonight
Self
The Frame
Matt Kowalsky
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
Celebrities Uncensored
Self