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  • In 1977, a teenage George Clooney tried out for the Cincinnati Reds and did not make it past the first round of player cuts. No contract was offered. Clooney, an American actor and filmmaker, would go on to collect two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2022 he received a Kennedy Center Honor.

    How does a young man from small-town Kentucky turn that early rejection into a career on both sides of the camera? Why did a run of forgettable television roles end with him headlining one of the most-watched shows in America? And what draws a movie star into international politics, and what does it cost him with a friend?

  • George Timothy Clooney was born on the 6th of May 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce, born Nina Warren, was a beauty queen who also served as a city councilwoman. His father, Nick Clooney, worked as an anchorman and television host, including five years on the AMC network. He had an older sister, Adelia, who lived from 1960 to 2025. Entertainment ran through the wider family too. His aunt Rosemary Clooney was a cabaret singer and actress, and his cousins through her include the actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer.

    In 1855, a poor cottier named Nicholas Clooney left Windgap in County Kilkenny and settled in Kentucky. The source says he had little alternative, because the landowning class had driven him out. That is why Clooney is described as predominantly of Irish descent. A stranger branch of the family tree reaches Abraham Lincoln. Clooney's maternal fourth great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, the president's mother. That makes Clooney and Lincoln half-first cousins five times removed.

    Catholicism shaped the household, and Clooney has summed it up with the words "yes, we were Catholic, big-time, whole family, whole group". He began school at Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. After a move to Ohio, he attended St. Michael's School in Worthington, then Western Row Elementary School in Mason, and finally St. Susanna School in Mason, where he was an altar boy. The family moved back to Kentucky when he was midway through the seventh grade.

    Bell's palsy, a condition that partly paralyzes the face, struck Clooney as a schoolboy. Speaking to Larry King, he said, "It takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of high school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed." He saw one gain in it. The ordeal pushed him to make fun of himself, and he argued that fame demands exactly that, because the practical jokes have to be aimed at you.

    After the family settled in Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School. He says he earned all As and a B, and he played baseball and basketball. From 1979 to 1981 he studied broadcast journalism at Northern Kentucky University, and he also very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati. He graduated from neither. He paid his way with odd jobs, including selling women's shoes, selling insurance door to door, stocking shelves, construction work, and cutting tobacco. Decades later, he would play a real television newsman on a Broadway stage.

  • Clooney's first screen job came in 1978, when he appeared as an extra in the miniseries Centennial. The production, based on the James A. Michener novel of the same name, was partly filmed in his hometown of Augusta. His first major role arrived in 1984 on E/R, a short-lived CBS sitcom that should not be confused with the later medical drama. Guest work followed. He played a handyman on The Facts of Life and a detective named Bobby Hopkins in an episode of The Golden Girls. In 1986 he made his theater debut in Vicious, a play about Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious.

    The sitcom Roseanne gave him his first prominent role, as Booker Brooks, the supervisor of Roseanne Barr's character. He then played a construction worker on Baby Talk and a co-starring detective, Ryan Walker, on the CBS drama Bodies of Evidence. A year-long turn as Det. James Falconer on Sisters came next. In 1988 he took one of the leads in the comedy-horror film Return of the Killer Tomatoes. In 1990 he starred in Sunset Beat, a short-lived ABC police drama. Throughout this period, he spent five years as a student at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.

    From 1994 to 1999, Clooney played Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Eriq LaSalle, and Noah Wyle. The show was a cultural phenomenon. It was the most-watched program on television in its second, third, and fifth seasons, and its average audience often topped 30 million viewers. At its peak, ER drew 47.8 million. Clooney earned two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, in 1995 and 1996. He also received Golden Globe nominations in 1995, 1996, and 1997, and lost each time to his co-star Anthony Edwards. After leaving in 1999, he made a cameo in the sixth season and returned for a guest spot in the final one.

    Mirador Entertainment, founded in February 1996, was the first of Clooney's production companies. Deborah Leoni, a former ABC vice president, joined as partner that July, and the company signed a two-year deal with NBC through NBC Studios. Maysville Pictures, formerly Left Bank Productions, was named for his hometown and launched with partner Robert Lawrence. It signed a three-year deal with Warner Bros. Pictures in November 1996. In 1998, a new television deal with Warner Bros. Television and CBS replaced the NBC arrangement and left Mirador defunct. In September 1999, Clooney split from Lawrence.

  • Clooney was still working on ER when he made his first major Hollywood film, From Dusk till Dawn, a horror comedy and crime thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. Its success led to the romantic comedy One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and the action thriller The Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman.

    Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin then cast him as Batman. The film was a modest box office performer and a critical failure. Clooney himself called it "a waste of money".

    In 1998, the crime comedy Out of Sight paired him with Jennifer Lopez. It also marked the first of many collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh. Clooney filmed Three Kings during the last weeks of his ER contract.

    The year 2000 brought The Perfect Storm, a Wolfgang Petersen disaster film that succeeded at the box office. That year also brought O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a Coen brothers adventure comedy with John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman. Set in rural Mississippi in 1937, during the Great Depression, it is a satire loosely based on Homer's Odyssey and the 1941 Preston Sturges classic Sullivan's Travels. Clooney played the escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill and earned a Golden Globe nomination. Variety critic Todd McCarthy wrote that Clooney was "Not for the first time recalling Clark Gable in his looks and line delivery".

    Ocean's Eleven arrived in 2001, with Clooney reuniting with Soderbergh. The heist comedy remade a 1960s Rat Pack film, and Clooney took the role of Danny Ocean, played originally by Frank Sinatra. Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, and Andy Garcia filled out the cast. It earned $451 million worldwide, making it Clooney's most successful film as the lead. Gravity, in which he appeared without starring, took in $723 million. Two sequels followed, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.

    Soderbergh and Clooney next made Solaris in 2002, an adaptation of Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed 1972 film. Roger Ebert praised the movie, and argued that Clooney had survived being named People magazine's sexiest man alive by choosing projects that ignore that image. In 2003, Clooney reunited with the Coen brothers for the romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty, opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones. Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times praised the chemistry between the leads and mentioned Clooney's Art Deco profile. Also in 2001, Clooney and Soderbergh co-founded Section Eight Productions, with Grant Heslov as president of television.

  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, released in 2002, marked Clooney's directorial debut. It was based on the autobiography of television producer Chuck Barris and premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. It did poorly at the box office, but critics said Clooney's directing showed promise.

    Syriana, in 2005, was based loosely on the memoirs of former Central Intelligence Agency agent Robert Baer about his service in the Middle East. Clooney suffered an accident on the set that caused a brain injury, with complications from a punctured dura. The same year, he directed, produced, and starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about the clash between 1950s television journalist Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. At the 2006 Academy Awards, Clooney earned nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for that film. He also earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Syriana, and he won it.

    In August 2006, Clooney and Grant Heslov started Smokehouse Pictures. His third film as director, Leatherheads, in which he also starred, led to a dispute with the Writers Guild of America. Clooney claimed he had written all but two scenes and asked for a writing credit beside Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, who had worked on the screenplay for 17 years. He lost the arbitration vote 2-1 and resigned from the union, as Variety reported on the 4th of April 2008. He became a "financial core status" non-member, which means he lost voting rights and cannot run for office or attend meetings.

    The Monuments Men, in 2014, saw Clooney co-write, direct, and star in an adaptation of the Robert M. Edsel book about the Allied hunt for Nazi-looted art. The ensemble cast included Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, and John Goodman. The film was a critical misfire and a box office failure, and many historians criticized its inaccuracies. Andrew Pulver of The Guardian was among those who panned it.

    Suburbicon followed in October 2017, a 1950s crime comedy from a script the Coen brothers wrote in the 1980s and had meant to direct themselves. It starred Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and Oscar Isaac. In 2019, Clooney returned to television with the Hulu miniseries Catch-22, based on Joseph Heller's novel. He starred, directed, and produced, though he first accepted a main role and then chose a smaller supporting part.

    After four years away from film acting, Clooney starred in The Midnight Sky, which he also directed and produced for Netflix. It was based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's debut novel Good Morning, Midnight. Reviews were mixed and the film was a financial flop, but it earned an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. Clooney also directed The Tender Bar, from the J. R. Moehringer memoir, with Ben Affleck in the lead. Affleck received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations for it. On Christmas Day 2023, Clooney's The Boys in the Boat reached theaters. Smokehouse Pictures also helped produce Surviving Ohio State, a documentary about the Ohio State University abuse scandal that was released on the 17th of June 2025.

  • On the 22nd of January 2008, Clooney was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Michael Clayton. He lost to Daniel Day-Lewis, who won for There Will Be Blood. Up in the Air, in 2009, brought him another round of nominations: a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, and an Academy Award. Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter called it one of Clooney's strongest performances. In 2011, The Descendants earned him a Golden Globe and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, plus another Oscar nomination. That year The Ides of March earned him a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

    Argo brought him the largest prize of his producing career. In 2013 the film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama, the BAFTA for Best Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Picture. As of 2023, Clooney was one of two people nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. The Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award came in 2015. The AFI Life Achievement Award followed on the 7th of June 2018, presented by Shirley MacLaine, with tributes from Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Anna Kendrick, Jimmy Kimmel, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, and his wife Amal Clooney.

    In 2013, Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman. In June 2017 they sold it to Diageo for $700 million, with a further $300 million possible depending on performance over the next ten years. Forbes ranked Clooney the world's highest-paid actor for 2017-2018, with earnings of $239 million between the 1st of June 2017 and the 1st of June 2018. A February 2008 cover story in Time put the headline "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star" over his picture.

    In 2025, Clooney made his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in a stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck. He and Grant Heslov wrote the play from their 2005 film. Jesse Green of The New York Times praised a performance of "wit, integrity and charming modesty." Vulture's Sara Holden called him probably the closest thing contemporary Hollywood has to a Cary Grant. The production earned five Tony Award nominations, including Best Actor in a Play for Clooney, and he received a Theatre World Award. It was also aired live on CNN and HBO, a first for a Broadway show, and drew strong ratings. That year Clooney also starred with Laura Dern and Adam Sandler in Noah Baumbach's Netflix film Jay Kelly.

  • A ten-day trip to Chad and Sudan with his father in April 2006 led to the television special A Journey to Darfur. Clooney had also spoken at a Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C. that year. The DVD, released in 2008, donated its sales proceeds to the International Rescue Committee. In September 2008, he addressed the UN Security Council alongside Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel. In December that year, he traveled to China and Egypt with Don Cheadle and two Olympic winners to press both governments to lean on Sudan.

    On the 25th of March 2007, Clooney sent an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He urged the European Union to take "decisive action" because Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, had ignored UN resolutions. That year he narrated and co-executive produced the documentary Sand and Sorrow, and he appeared in Darfur Now. In December 2007, he and Cheadle received the Summit Peace Award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome. Clooney told the audience, "Don and I... stand here before you as failures." On the 18th of January 2008, the United Nations announced his appointment as a messenger of peace, effective the 31st of January.

    After an October 2010 trip to South Sudan, Clooney conceived the Satellite Sentinel Project with John Prendergast of the Enough Project. It monitors armed activity along the border between Sudan and South Sudan for signs of renewed civil war. In May 2011, the two co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed titled "Dancing with a dictator in Sudan". On the 16th of March 2012, Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy for civil disobedience, an outcome he had planned. He has been called one of al-Bashir's most strident critics.

    His other efforts span many places. He joined the group Not On Our Watch Project with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and others. In February 2009 he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. In January 2010 he organized the telethon Hope for Haiti Now. He launched the Aurora Prize, tied to the 100 Lives Initiative on the Armenian genocide, and visited Armenia in April 2016. In March 2016, he and Amal met Syrian refugees in Berlin before thanking Angela Merkel. In 2018 the couple pledged $500,000 to the March for Our Lives. After the Beirut explosion of the 4th of August 2020 killed at least 145 people, they gave $100,000 to three Lebanese charities.

    On the 28th of March 2019, Clooney wrote an open letter urging a boycott of nine hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei. The reason was a new law, in force from the 3rd of April 2019, that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning. He had earlier backed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020. In July 2024, he wrote in The New York Times, "I love Joe Biden." He then added that Biden was "not the same man he was" and "won't win this fall". Clooney called for a new Democratic nominee. In 2025 he said he stood by that choice, because he was raised to tell the truth.

  • Max, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, was a gift Clooney bought for actress Kelly Preston while they dated from 1987 to 1989. When the relationship ended, Clooney kept Max for another 18 years until the pig died in 2006. He has joked that Max was the longest relationship he ever had. Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993.

    On the 28th of April 2014, Clooney became engaged to Amal Alamuddin, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer. They bonded over campaigning, especially the dispute over the Elgin Marbles. She was acting for the Greek government in seeking their return from the British Museum. He had argued for their return while promoting The Monuments Men, and Mayor of London Boris Johnson criticized him. In July 2014, the Daily Mail claimed her mother opposed the marriage on religious grounds. Clooney mocked the paper and rejected its apology after it admitted the story was false. They married on the 27th of September 2014 at Ca' Farsetti in Venice, in a ceremony led by Clooney's friend Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome.

    A Basset Hound named Millie, adopted in 2015 from the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society, joined the family. On the 6th of June 2017, Amal gave birth to a daughter and a son. In 2020, Clooney told Jimmy Kimmel and Graham Norton that the twins speak Italian fluently, though neither parent does. His homes include a house in the village of Laglio on Lake Como and a villa compound in Los Cabos, Mexico. He and Amal also bought Mill House on an island in the Thames at Sonning Eye for around £10 million.

    On the 21st of September 2007, a car clipped Clooney's motorcycle in Weehawken, New Jersey, injuring him and his then-girlfriend Sarah Larson. On the 9th of October 2007, more than two dozen staff at Palisades Medical Center were suspended without pay for looking at his medical records. A second motorcycle crash came on the 10th of July 2018, when a car hit him on the way to a film set in Sardinia. He was hospitalized with minor injuries. He supports the Cincinnati Bengals and the English club Derby County.

    In November 2021, Clooney wrote an op-ed asking the Daily Mail to stop publishing photos of his children, since his wife confronts and prosecutes terrorist groups. In 2025 he announced he would raise his children on a farm in France. On the 27th of December 2025, George, Amal, and the twins acquired French citizenship.

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Who is George Clooney?

George Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker born on the 6th of May 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards.

What role made George Clooney famous?

George Clooney became famous as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER, which he played from 1994 to 1999. The show peaked at 47.8 million viewers.

How many Academy Awards has George Clooney won?

George Clooney has won two Academy Awards. One was Best Supporting Actor for Syriana, and the other was Best Picture as a producer of Argo.

What films has George Clooney directed?

George Clooney has directed nine feature films. They include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Ides of March, The Monuments Men, and The Tender Bar.

Why did George Clooney call for Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election?

In a July 2024 New York Times op-ed, George Clooney wrote that Biden was no longer the man he had been and would not win that fall. He called for a new Democratic nominee.

What humanitarian work is George Clooney known for?

George Clooney advocated for action on Darfur and became a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2008. He also helped start the Satellite Sentinel Project after a 2010 trip to South Sudan.

Who is George Clooney married to?

George Clooney has been married since the 27th of September 2014 to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. They have twins, a daughter and a son, born on the 6th of June 2017.

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  100. 100HBO Original Documentary SURVIVING OHIO STATE Debuts June 17June 5, 2025
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  113. 113Hollywood stars open wallets for ObamaJuly 16, 2011
  114. 114Tom Hanks Predicts Donald Trump Will Become President When 'Spaceships Come Down Filled With Dinosaurs'Philip Boucher — April 26, 2016
  115. 115Clooney 'upset' lobbyist's familyBBC News — January 21, 2006
  116. 116George Clooney, Steve Wynn Trade Verbal Barbs During Las Vegas DinnerApril 23, 2014
  117. 117Celebrities who support Joe Biden for presidentFox van Allen — CBS News — October 29, 2020
  118. 118Barack Obama And George Clooney Trade A Few Jokes And Talk Of Defeating Donald Trump At Virtual Fundraiser For Joe BidenTed Johnson — July 28, 2020
  119. 119NewsOpinion George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.George Clooney — 2024-07-10
  120. 120Top Democratic fundraiser Clooney calls on Biden to drop outBrandon Drenon et al. — BBC News — July 10, 2024
  121. 121George Clooney, who hosted major fundraiser for Biden last month, says Democratic Party needs a new nominee CNN PoliticsMichael Williams — CNN — 2024-07-10
  122. 122Trump slams 'puff piece' from '60 Minutes' where George Clooney encourages free pressAnna Kaufman — March 24, 2025
  123. 123Not on Our Watch ProjectAugust 11, 2009
  124. 124NewsSisters, Victims, HeroesNicholas Kristof — February 21, 2009
  125. 125George Clooney: "'Hope For Haiti' wird groß!"MTV — January 22, 2010
  126. 126Telethon tries to raise 'Hope for Haiti'CNN
  127. 127NewsGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt lead all-star Prop. 8 play readingMarch 4, 2012
  128. 128"8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage EqualityYouTube — March 3, 2012
  129. 129NewsYouTube to broadcast Proposition 8 play livepinknews.co.uk
  130. 130George Clooney, Neil Patrick Harris Participate in Gay Youth Charity AuctionSeptember 23, 2012
  131. 131BEIRUT EXPLOSION: GEORGE AND AMAL CLOONEY DONATE £76,000 TO LEBANESE RELIEF CHARITIESAugust 7, 2020
  132. 132George Clooney's Sudan help June 7, 2007.
  133. 133American Life TV targets baby boomers: Channel airing Clooney's Darfur docuJune 1, 2007
  134. 134MagazineThe Time 100: George ClooneyJoel Stein — September 14, 2009
  135. 135Clooney's Docu on Darfur to Air MondayCBS News
  136. 136AmericanLife TV Network (ALN) Donates Proceeds From "A Journey to Darfur" DVD to the International Rescue Committee
  137. 137Linton, Leyla. Clooney urges UN action on Darfur The Washington Post. September 15, 2006.
  138. 138Friedman, Roger. George Clooney's Secret Mission Fox News Channel. December 12, 2006.
  139. 139Europe calls on Sudan to accept UN resolutionMarch 25, 2007
  140. 140MagazineSand and Sorrow reviewJay Weissberg — June 25, 2007
  141. 141Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief.
  142. 142NewsClooney and Cheadle Honored by Nobel Prize WinnersScott Huver — November 26, 2007
  143. 143NewsGeorge Clooney speaks to CLSA clientsSeptember 21, 2011
  144. 144NewsDancing with a dictator in SudanStephen F. Hayes — May 27, 2011
  145. 145NewsGeorge Clooney released after Sudan embassy arrestBBC News — March 16, 2012
  146. 146NewsGeorge Clooney arrested in planned protest at Sudanese embassyRyan Devereaux — March 16, 2012
  147. 147NewsDonald Trump ducks a decision on sanctions on KhartoumJuly 13, 2017
  148. 148NewsGeorge And Amal Clooney Attend '100 Lives' CommemorationCavan Sieczkowski — March 11, 2015
  149. 149News'There was a genocide of Armenians in 1915,' Says George ClooneyOctober 27, 2015
  150. 150NewsGeorge and Amal Clooney to visit Armenia next yearOctober 29, 2015
  151. 151George Clooney attends screening of Armenian Genocide movie 'The Promise'2017-04-07
  152. 152NewsGeorge Clooney: Syria conflict 'incredibly complex'BBC News
  153. 153Amal Clooney tells refugees how her family were once forced to flee their homeland tooMarch 16, 2016
  154. 154Oprah Follows George and Amal Clooney's Lead, to Donate $500,000 for Parkland Students' MarchFebruary 20, 2018
  155. 155George Clooney Doesn't 'Give A S**t' If People Think He Is Gay
  156. 156NewsBrunei to punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning
  157. 157George Clooney: Boycott Sultan Of Brunei's Hotels Over Cruel Anti-Gay LawsGeorge Clooney — March 28, 2019
  158. 158National Library of Scotland
  159. 159National Library of Scotland
  160. 160National Library of Scotland
  161. 161George and Max: A love story made in HollywoodDecember 6, 2006
  162. 162NewsTalia Balsam, Divorce actress, on being married to George Clooney: 'I should not have been married at that point'Heather Saul — October 7, 2016
  163. 163George Clooney and his saga of affairsMay 3, 2014
  164. 164ladies of George ClooneyCBS News — April 28, 2014
  165. 165George Clooney's ex-girlfriend vows to wreck his Italian weddingSeptember 18, 2014
  166. 166NewsFor George Clooney, life will never be the sameSeptember 24, 1995
  167. 167George Clooney BiographyGeorge Clooney
  168. 168BookGeorge Clooney: A BiographyJeff Hudson — Virgin Books — 2003
  169. 169NewsLisa Snowdon says George Clooney is no Mr RightTim Walker — May 1, 2009
  170. 170S.F. mayor's girlfriend offers glimpse into her life and careerApril 9, 2007
  171. 171NewsReport: George Clooney Rekindles Romance With Krista AllenDecember 1, 2011
  172. 172George Clooney Hooks Up With Elvis' Ex . TMZ. June 27, 2006.
  173. 173NewsGeorge Clooney and Sarah Larson splitMay 28, 2008
  174. 174MagazineWho Is George Clooney's New Italian Girl?Simon Perry — July 30, 2009
  175. 175MagazineGeorge Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis SplitElizabeth Leonard — June 22, 2011
  176. 176MagazineGeorge Clooney and Stacy Keibler Are Still DatingMichelle Tauber — September 7, 2011
  177. 177George Clooney & Stacy Keibler Split; Had 'Nothing To Do' With Kids, Marriage
  178. 178George Clooney engaged to 'utterly wonderful' British lawyerPadraic Flanagan — April 28, 2014
  179. 179NewsGeorge Clooney engaged to UK attorney Amal Alamuddin, her law firm says as it offers congratsJill Lawless — April 28, 2014
  180. 180George Clooney: Why we owe our domestic bliss to ... Boris JohnsonVanessa Thorpe & Tom Lamont — December 13, 2020
  181. 181NewsGeorge Clooney slams Daily Mail over 'irresponsible' marriage storyBBC News
  182. 182NewsGeorge Clooney rejects Mail Online apologyBBC News — July 11, 2014
  183. 183NewsGeorge Clooney and Fiancée Amal Alamuddin Get Marriage LicenseMichael Rothman — August 7, 2014
  184. 184NewsGeorge Clooney Marries in Venice CeremonyTom Kington — Sky News — September 27, 2014
  185. 185George Clooney 'to be married by ex-Rome mayor'Nick Squires — September 15, 2014
  186. 186George Clooney, Wife Adopt Basset Hound Mix Named Millie From ShelterCBS News — October 29, 2015
  187. 187George and Amal Clooney 'expecting twins', Matt Damon confirmsBBC News — February 10, 2017
  188. 188George and Amal Clooney Welcome Son Alexander and Daughter EllaJune 6, 2017
  189. 189George Clooney Says His Twins Are Bilingual, but He and Amal Are Not: 'That's a Flaw in Our Logic'Katie Campione — October 4, 2021
  190. 190George Clooney Refused to Raise His Kids in Hollywood Because 'They Were Never Going to Get a Fair Shake at Life,' Moved to a Farm in France Where 'They Don't Give a S— About Fame'Zack Sharf — 2025-10-06
  191. 191NewsClooney at home in ItalyNews.com — October 14, 2007
  192. 192Villa Negri – LocationVilla Negri
  193. 193George Clooney, Cindy Crawford share seaside villasAnn Oldenburg
  194. 194Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber and George Clooney's Side-By-Side Mexican VillasNovember 2013
  195. 195Amal and George Clooney's property portfolio through the years – we take a look at some of their stand-out homesDickson, Chiana — 2 November 2022
  196. 196NewsGeorge Clooney snaps up £10 million manor house in Sonning, BerkshirePatrick Sawer — October 9, 2014
  197. 197NewsFrance's rose vineyards a hit investment among rich & famous, thanks to George ClooneyMay 21, 2021
  198. 198Actor George Clooney Injured in Motorcycle Accident
  199. 199NewsHospital Staffers Suspended Over ClooneyNorth Bergen — October 10, 2007
  200. 200NewsGeorge Clooney 'injured in motorbike accident' in Sardinia
  201. 201George Clooney reportedly injured after motorbike crash in SardiniaJuly 10, 2018
  202. 202George Clooney's Bengals Tee Is Having a MomentOctober 12, 2012
  203. 203Did you know that George Clooney tried out for the Reds in 1977?May 6, 2015
  204. 204George Clooney opens up about love for Derby County in new interviewElizabeth Aubrey — March 26, 2022
  205. 205George Clooney admits to being Derby County fan as Championship club edge closer to new ownershipJames Westwood — March 27, 2022
  206. 206NewsGeorge Clooney Pens Open Letter to Daily Mail to Stop Publishing Pictures of His ChildrenAbid Rahman — November 5, 2021
  207. 207Video: George Clooney gets married in Norwegian bank commercial | Globalnews.ca
  208. 208OMEGA in Space: George Clooney's storyOMEGA — January 23, 2017
  209. 209George Clooney – Fiat IDEA – Auto commercialYouTube — June 27, 2011
  210. 210George Clooney tastes sustainability in Nespresso coffeeLucy Siegle — July 17, 2013
  211. 211George Clooney to star in new Martini adHealth Club Management — October 29, 2004
  212. 212Toast of the town: why George Clooney's Warburtons ad is the best thing since sliced breadStuart Heritage — May 7, 2021
  213. 213MagazineThe 2009 Time 100April 30, 2009
  214. 214MagazineThe Time 100May 3, 2007
  215. 215MagazineThe 2008 Time 100April 30, 2009
  216. 216George Clooney Named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man AliveNovember 15, 2006
  217. 217George Clooney voted world's most beautiful manFemalefirst.co.uk
  218. 218BookTV Guide Book of ListsRunning Press — 2007
  219. 219MagazineGeorge Clooney: The Last Movie StarJoel Stein — February 20, 2008
  220. 220MagazineThe Tragedy of Hollywood's Insufferable SmugnessJordan Calhoun — 2022-01-14
  221. 221Tears of a ClooneyBBC
  222. 222HitFixJune 23, 2023
  223. 223OSCARS: Is George Clooney Now King Of The Academy Awards?Pete Hammond — February 21, 2013
  224. 2242012 Golden Globes: 'Descendants,' Clooney win
  225. 225The Descendants (2011) AwardsIMDb
  226. 226MagazineThe Key to Making Peace in AfricaGeorge Clooney et al. — March 14, 2018
  227. 228NewsGeorge Clooney to Direct, Star in 'Good Morning, Midnight' Adaptation for NetflixJustin Kroll — June 24, 2019
  228. 229NewsGeorge Clooney To Direct & Star In Film Adaptation Of 'Good Morning, Midnight' Novel For NetflixAmanda N'Duka — June 24, 2019

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