Clooney, George

Born May 6, 1961 in Mayville, 106 km from Lexington , Kentucky . His mother, Nina Bruce, is a former beauty queen ; his father, Nick, is a journalist, television presenter on American Movie Classics , and a passionate politician from Kentucky . Clooney grew up in an Irish Catholic family . The great-great-great-great-grandmother of George Clooney - Mary Ann Spurrow - was the uterine sister of Nancy Hanks - the mother of Abraham Lincoln . He has an older sister, Adelia, and among his cousins ​​are actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer . He is also a relative of another singer, Debbie Boone, who married yet another son of Rosemary and Jose, Gabriel Ferrer. From an early age, Clooney spent time filming his father, often participating in shows where he was a favorite of the public.

Clooney went to Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky . Spending part of his childhood in Ohio , he attended St. Michael’s in Columbus Susanna in Mason, Ohio . In high school, Clooney was struck by Bell's paralysis , a genetic disease transmitted to him from his father. About a year, half of his face was paralyzed. His left eye was closed, he could not eat and drink normally, and in connection with this earned the nickname "Frankenstein". “It was the worst time of my life,” Clooney told The Mirror magazine in 2003. “You know how cruel children can be. I was ridiculed and teased, but this test made me stronger ” ^[4] .

In the end, his parents moved to the city of Augusta, Kentucky , where Clooney attended Augusta High School. He claimed that he received only “4” and “5” at school ^[5] and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player . He thought about a legal career, but later abandoned this. He tried to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but was not offered a permanent contract. He did not go through the first round of player selection ^[6] . Clooney attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, and, very briefly, the University of Cincinnati, but not one graduated.

Early Roles

Clooney received his first serious role in 1994 in the television series Ambulance . He also appeared on the series The Facts of Life. Including Clooney played detective Bobby in one of the episodes of the series " Golden Girls ". His major breakthrough was a supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, where he played the boss of the main character, Booker Brooks, as well as the subsequent role of the builder on Baby Talk and then the role of the sex detective in the series Sisters. In 1988, Clooney also played a minor role in The Return of the Killer Tomatoes .

Initial Success

Clooney achieved star position when he was selected to play the role of Dr. Doug Ross in the NBC television drama Ambulance , where he played from 1994 to 1999 and once returned to play the role of a cameo in the fifteenth and final season of the series. Clooney was also a partner of Deborah Leoni at their production company, Mirador Entertainment.

Clooney began acting in films while still playing in Ambulance, his first major role in Hollywood movies, From Dusk Till Dawn , directed by Robert Rodriguez . The success of the first film was followed by One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman . Clooney was then selected for the role of the new Batman (replacing Val Kilmer , who, in turn, had replaced Michael Keaton ) in the movie Batman and Robin , which was an average box office success, but was called by Clooney himself "a waste of money." In 1998, Clooney starred in the movie Out of Sight . This was the first of his many works with director Steven Soderbergh . He also starred in the movie Three Kings, while his last weeks of the ambulance contract ended.

Movie career

After leaving Ambulance , George Clooney has been a star in many Hollywood films such as The Perfect Storm and Oh, where are you, brother? ". In 2001, he again began working with Stephen Soderberg on the film Eleven Ocean Friends , a remake of the 1960 Lewis Milestone creation of the same name. This film has grossed over 444 million dollars worldwide. He also spawned two sequels with Clooney in the title role: Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007. In 2001, George Clooney and Stephen Soderbergh founded the movie company , and in 2002 Clooney starred in the film adaptation of the novel Solaris , which was also directed by Soderberg.

The directorial debut of Clooney was the film “ Confessions of a dangerous person ”, which premiered in 2002. The film is an adaptation of the autobiography of television producer Chuck Barris. And although the film did not collect a large box office, critics and the public unanimously praised Clooney's directorial work.

In 2005, Clooney got the lead role in the movie Sirian , which is partly based on the biography of former CIA agent Robert Baer and his recollections of working as an agent in the Middle East . In the same year, he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night and Good Luck , a film about the verbal struggle of 1950s television journalist Edward Marow and Senator Joseph McCarthy . Both films received noisy approval from critics and a decent box office. At the 2006 Oscars , Clooney was nominated in three categories at once: as the best director and screenwriter for Good Night and Good Luck, and for Syriana, he won the award in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Clooney appeared in Soderberg's Good Germans . The film takes place after the Second World War in Germany .

Clooney also received the "American Cinema Award" in October 2006, which is awarded to actors who made "a significant contribution to the art of cinema." On January 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated for Best Actor for his role in Michael Clayton , but was defeated by Daniel Day-Lewis ( Oil ).

After the success of Goodnight and Good Luck , Clooney said he plans to devote more of his time to directing. He said the filmmaking industry is "a great place to grow old." Clooney directed the film Love Without Rules, in which he also played a major role.

In 2009, Clooney worked on his next project, Mad Special Forces , directed by his good friend Grant Heslov . The premiere took place in November 2009. Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey also agreed to participate. Another project that Clooney subscribed to is the film “ I would have been in heaven ”, for which he received another Oscar nomination as the best actor. The director was Jason Reitman , famous for the movie " Juneau ".

In 2011, George Clooney reincarnated as the wealthy landowner Matt King in Alexander Payne ’s drama Descendants , for which he won numerous film awards and awards, as well as the third Golden Globe Award figurine ^[7] . The actor was prophesied and the fifth Oscar nomination. The forecast came true successfully: on January 24, 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the award, including George Clooney.

Clooney’s fourth directorial work, the political thriller The Ides of March , which premiered the same year, earned him another Oscar nomination, this time for the best adapted script. The tape was included in most lists of the best films of 2011.

In 2012, he acted as a producer of the political thriller Operation Argo , for which he won the second Oscar figurine in the Best Film nomination together with Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov .

In August 2018, George Clooney topped the ranking of the highest paid actors of the year according to Forbes magazine. For 12 months, the actor earned 239 million US dollars ^[8] .

Humanitarian Aid

Clooney participates in the Not On Our Watch Project , an organization that draws the attention of the world community and resources to prevent mass crime, along with Brad Pitt , Matt Damon , Don Cheadle , David Pressman and Jerry Weintraub ^[9] . In January 2010, he organized a telethon, which collected donations for victims of the Haiti earthquake in 2010 ^[10] .

On March 16, 2012, George Clooney participated in a protest outside the Sudanese embassy and was arrested due to civil disobedience. ^[11] The arrest of the actor and other participants was part of the action plans - during the arrest, Clooney told reporters that he was trying to draw attention to the plight of “innocent children” in Sudan. Other prominent human rights activists were arrested along with him, including Martin Luther King III. ^[12]

In July 2017, the actor’s charity fund and UNICEF announced the allocation of $ 2.25 million to schools in Lebanon for the education of approximately 3,000 refugee children from Syria ^[13] .

Armenian Genocide

George Clooney is an active supporter of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide . He is one of the founders of the Aurora Prize - which is awarded to those who risk their lives to prevent genocides and atrocities ^[14] . Clooney also called on US authorities to recognize the Armenian Genocide. ^[15]

Arms Control

In 2018, after firing at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School , George and Amal Clooney donated $ 500,000 to the March organizers for our lives ^[16] .

LGBT Rights

On March 28, 2019, Clooney wrote an open letter calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei because of the introduction of execution in the country for same-sex relationships ^[17] . Clooney listed nine hotels, and asked readers to think about how “we put money in the pockets of people who decide to throw stones and hammer their citizens for their homosexuality” ^[17] . On May 5, 2019, the Brunei authorities quashed the decision ^[18] .

Relationships

In 1987-1989, Clooney met with actress Kelly Preston . He was married to actress Talia Bolsam from 1989 to 1993. Clooney also had a relationship with Celine Balitran (1996-1999) ^[19] , model Lisa Snowdon (2000-2005) ^[20] , actresses Renee Zellweger (2001) and Krista Allen (2002-2008) ^[21] . From July 2009 to June 2011, Clooney met with the Italian model Elizabeth Canalis ^{[22] [23]} . From July 2011 to July 2013 he had an affair with sportswoman Stacy Kibler ^{[24] [25]} .

In April 2014, Clooney announced an engagement with lawyer Amal Alamuddin ^{[26] [27]} . They married on September 27, 2014 in Venice , Italy. ^[28] The wedding ceremony was held by Walter Veltroni - a friend of Clooney and the former mayor of Rome ^[29] . In February 2017, it became known that the couple were expecting the birth of twins ^[30] . On June 6, 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter, Ella and a son, Alexander ^[31] .

Pets

Clooney's pet - hog Max died in the actor’s house at the age of 18, in 2006. He weighed approximately 126 kilograms, and Clooney sometimes took him to his bed ^[32] . In 2015, Clooney and his wife Amal took a dog named Millie from the shelter ^[33] .

Property

Clooney has homes in Los Angeles , Italy ( Lallo commune) ^[34] , Los Cabos ( Mexico ), where Cindy Crawford and Randy Gerber ^[35] and England ( Oxfordshire ) ^{[36] [37]} are neighbors ^. .

Actor

Director

1. 2002 - Confessions of a dangerous person
2. 2005 - Unprepared (TV series)
3. 2005 - Good night and good luck.
4. 2008 - Love is Out of the Box
5. 2011 - March Ides
6. 2014 - Treasure Hunters
7. 2017 - Suburbicon

Also

• Cavalier of the Order of Arts and Literature ( France , 2007 ) ^[46]