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George Clooney is an American actor, filmmaker and human rights activist. Winner of three Golden Globes and two Oscars.
About George Clooney
The famous actor and director George Clooney was born on May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky. He achieved great success in 1992 as Dr. Doug Ross in the TV series ER, who followed big and important roles, including that of Batman. 2005 he won an Oscar for his role in Syriana. Time magazine called him “the last movie star” and People magazine called him the “hottest guy” twice. In 2014, Clooney married international lawyer and human rights activist Amal Alamuddin.
The beginnings of George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 5, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to a family known in the media and entertainment industry. His father Nick worked for several years as a television personality and news reporter. His aunt Rosemary Clooney has a long career as a singer and actress.
Due to the nature of his father’s work, George and his older sister, Adda, moved several times to various areas across Kentucky and Ohio with their parents, and in 1973 they settled in downtown Augusta, Kentucky.
Clooney made his first television tryout at the age of five, playing graphic folks on his father’s local talk show.
In middle school, Clooney struggled with his talent for expression due to Bell’s palsy (paralysis of facial nerves), but eventually recovered from his illness.
In school, Clooney focused more on sports than books, but he managed to be a good student. At the age of 16, he secured a baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds.
Clooney studied broadcast journalism at Northern Kentucky. Clooney dropped out of college in 1981 because he did not believe he had what it took to be a television journalist, and hated the constant comparison with his father.
Deciding to move to Los Angeles to become an actor, Clooney landed a recurring role on the teen comedy show The Facts of Life, between 1985 and 1987 guest appearing on the sitcom Roseanne. In 1992 he played a detective in the short series Bodies of Evidence, and in Sisters, he also played a detective, there were a few roles in the movies, including a transgender role in the 1993 thriller The Harvest.
He worked steadily in Hollywood, but never landed a significant career; he told The New Yorker in 2007: “I was making two hundred thousand dollars a year, which was beyond expectations, so you wouldn’t think that things were going wrong but in fact you feel like you are succeeding. But I was hoping to work on better projects, and I didn’t think I would have the opportunity. “
The Achievements of George Clooney
That all changed in 1994 when Clooney was cast in the medical drama ER, and Clooney starred as Dr. Doug Ross, a famous pediatrician and gynecologist. After his first appearance in September 1994, Clooney caught the attention of filmmakers, and his charm and charm made him suitable for the big screen.
Clooney worked at a fast pace, and was able to appear in several films during his time as ER. He fought vampires with Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk to Dawn (1996), and in the romantic comedy One Fine Day (1996), Clooney played the divorced parent who falls in love with a single mother and co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer. Clooney starred as Batman in the hit summer film Batman & Robin (1997), which ultimately earned more than $ 107 million in earnings.
The following year, Clooney starred with Jennifer Lopez in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, and also had a role in the war drama The Thin Red Line.
In 1999, Clooney set out to pursue a full-time career. He starred in the Persian Gulf War story Three Kings, and Clooney starred as a prankster in O Brother, Where Are Thou? (2000), a re-portrayal of X’s epic poem The Odyssey. He won a Golden Globe Award for his work in the film. Clooney also re-recorded The Perfect Stor.
In 2001 Clooney starred as Danny Ocean in the remake of Ocean’s Eleven, with two parts being filmed: Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen.
The following year, Clooney made his directorial debut in “Mind Confessions of a Dangerous 2002”. He also worked as a producer in Syriana.
Clooney weighed 30 pounds to play the role of a government agent who discovers political intrigues and corruption in the Middle East. The membrane around his spine was damaged during the filming of the scene, which led to spinal fluid leakage from his nose and terrible pain in the back. After the film was finished, Clooney underwent two surgeries to fix the problem.
In 2005, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Syriana, and was also nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his film Good Night, and Good Luck.
He next starred in the 2009 comedy-drama Up in the Air as Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a consultant who specializes in firing employees. Also that year, he starred in the family drama The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne, and won a Golden Globe.
In 2013, Clooney won an Oscar for Best Picture for his production of Argo with Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov, a political thriller film directed and starring Ben Affleck.
Clooney also starred in the 2013 science fiction drama Gravity, while 2014 saw the release of The Monuments Me, the film directed and starring George Clooney. The following year, Clooney won a Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood during the annual Golden Globes.
An outspoken liberal, Clooney has been a frequent target of right-wing politicians and personalities. In addition to his disappointment at the election of George W. Bush as president in 2000, Clooney was also opposed to the Iraq war, describing the president as “dulled” in a 2003 interview. “America’s policies are frustrating me, I think the war against Iraq is not,” Clooney said on a TV program. They can be avoided as much as they are meaningless.