Creator / George Clooney

The man knows how to wear a tux.

"Clooney, you smug bastard. Why do you have to be so much better than the rest of us?"

— A forum poster.

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer. The son of Cincinnati broadcast journalist Nick Clooney^note Famous in the game-show community for having hosted the short-lived ABC game show The Moneymaze, infamous for bleeding money due to taking far too much time in putting up and taking down the set, in addition to taping and nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney, George's acting career got off to a slow start, but he hit the bigtime when he was cast as Dr. Doug Ross on ER, which earned him Golden Globe and Emmy nominations and propelled him to stardom. He left the show midway through Season 5 (relatively early on in its fifteen-year run, so much so that many of Clooney's younger fans don't know he was ever on it) to pursue a film career full-time.

This had gotten off to a rather poor start with the infamously bad Batman & Robin, in which he was Batman; legend has it that Clooney will refund the ticket price of anyone who approaches him and says they saw the film. However, he quickly became a regular with The Coen Brothers, appearing in such films of theirs as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading and Hail, Caesar!. He likewise formed a partnership with Steven Soderbergh, which led to both some major blockbusters in the Ocean's Eleven series (probably the film role that best sums up Clooney's screen persona), and some smaller serious dramas, such as Solaris. As if this wasn't enough, he moved into directing and screenwriting, earning Oscar nominations in both categories for Good Night, and Good Luck. in 2005; that same year he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Syriana. Three nominations for the Best Actor Oscar followed, for Michael Clayton in 2007, Up in the Air in 2009, and The Descendants in 2011; that same year he earned a second writing Oscar nomination for The Ides of March, all the while using his spy satellites to build a case against Sudanese war criminals. In 2012, he won his second Oscar for co-producing Ben Affleck's Argo, which won Best Picture.

On- and off-screen, George Clooney is recognized as a major sex symbol, and was for a long time one of Hollywood's most famous bachelors. In 2014, he married Amal Alamuddin, a Lebanese-British human rights lawyer. In June 2017, she gave birth to twins Ella and Alexander. He is frequently cited as one of the world's sexiest men, and is compared to Cary Grant in his Old Hollywood style. Also known for his very vocal liberalism and his more general humanitarian work. The latter has led to him being dubbed the "class president" of Hollywood. He has so far avoided any major scandals and appears to be a genuinely normal, down-to-earth, and of course inconceivably handsome man. Women want him; men want to be him; men want him too. What a guy...

He is the cousin of the late Miguel Ferrer.

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He has appeared in:

• Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) as Ron^note Filmed in 1983 and sat in The Shelf of Movie Languishment before being released in 2020
• The Facts of Life (1983-87) as George Burnett
• Return to Horror High (1987) as Oliver
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988) as Matt Stevens
• Roseanne (1988-91) as Booker Brooks
• Baby Talk (1991) as Joe
• Unbecoming Age (1992) as Mac
• ER (1994-2000) as Doug Ross
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) as Seth Gecko
• One Fine Day (1996) as Jack Taylor
• Batman & Robin (1997) and The Flash (2023) as Bruce Wayne / Batman
• The Peacemaker (1997) as Thomas Devoe
• The Thin Red Line (1998) as Captain Charles Bosche
• Out of Sight (1998) as Jack Foley
• Three Kings (1999) as Archie Gates
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) as Dr. Gauche
• The Perfect Storm (2000) as Captain Billy Tyne
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) as Ulysses Everett McGill
• Ocean's Eleven (2001) as Danny Ocean
  • Ocean's Twelve (2004)
  • Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
• Spy Kids (2001) as Diego Devlin
  • Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
• Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002) as Jim Byrd^note Also director
• Solaris (2002) as Chris Kelvin
• Welcome To Collinwood (2002) as Jerzy
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003) as Miles Massey
• Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) as Fred Friendly^note Also writer and director
• Syriana (2005) as Bob Barnes
• The Good German (2006) as Jake Geisner
• Michael Clayton (2007) as Michael Clayton
• Leatherheads (2008) as Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly^note Also director
• Burn After Reading (2008) as Harry Pfarrer
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Mr. Fox
• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) as Lyn Cassady
• Up in the Air (2009) as Ryan Bingham
• The American (2010) as Jack
• The Ides of March (2011) as Mike Morris^note Also writer and director
• The Descendants (2011) as Matthew "Matt" King
• Gravity (2013) as Matthew "Matt" Kowalski
• The Monuments Men (2014) as Frank Stokes^note Also writer and director
• Tomorrowland (2015) as Frank Walker
• A Very Murray Christmas (2015) As Himself
• Hail, Caesar! (2016) as Baird Whitlock
• Money Monster (2016) as Lee Gates
• Catch-22 (2019) as Scheisskopf^note Also director and executive producer
• The Midnight Sky (2020) as Augustine Lofthouse^note Also director
• Ticket to Paradise (2022) as David Cotton
• IF (2024) as Spaceman

Tropes found in his works:

• The Charmer: He has this role down to a science to the point where you can argue he's typecast as this.
• Deadpan Snarker: His characters always have a dry remark at the ready.
• Dyeing for Your Art: He put on thirty pounds for his role in Syriana which he admitted was a depressing process. It gets a Call-Back in Ocean's Thirteen when Brad Pitt's character tells Danny that he should lose a few pounds.
• Idiot Hero: Joel and Ethan Coen have famously directed Clooney in the so-called Idiot Trilogy, where he plays characters that he himself describes as idiots.
• Nice Guy: He's a very friendly and considerate person who appears to be just as charming in real life as he is on screen.
• Nice to the Waiter: Known for being very pleasant to the crew when filming, and doesn't stand for anyone else on set behaving otherwise. He even got into a fight with the director of Three Kings when he wouldn't stop doing after Clooney told him to knock it off.
• Old Shame: He'd rather you not bring up Batman and Robin, even though he treats it as a cautionary tale on not taking a role only for the money. He seems to have eased up a bit though, even returning for a cameo in The Flash (2023).
• Production Posse:
  • He has worked four times with Joel and Ethan Coen, who have directed him on the aforementioned Idiot Trilogy.
  • He's also had a long-term partnership with Steven Soderbergh, which has produced films ranging from the Ocean's movies to Solaris.
• Silver Fox: One of the most prominent examples in Hollywood. It even becomes a running gag in some of his films. Due to his graying relatively early some of his characters fret about looking older than they are.
• Star-Derailing Role: He has openly said that Batman & Robin nearly ended his film career before it even began. Fortunately he rebounded with a number of successful hits including The Perfect Storm and Ocean's Eleven that established his viability as a film star.
• Star-Making Role: Clooney was already known for ER but it was Ocean's Eleven that went on to become a massive worldwide success and fully establish Clooney's stardom.

• Those Two Actors:
  • With longtime friend Brad Pitt. Together they've starred in the Ocean's trilogy and Burn After Reading.
  • He became fast friends with Julia Roberts when they first worked on Ocean's Eleven. Since then they've starred in five more movies together including Money Monster and Ticket to Paradise.
  • He's also worked multiple times with Matt Damon.