George Clooney is a highly acclaimed American actor, filmmaker, and philanthropist. He is celebrated for his prominent roles in both mainstream and independent cinema. Clooney's achievements include two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He has also received nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. He has been recognized with prestigious honors such as the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor, solidifying his significant contributions to the film industry and broader cultural landscape.
In 1977, George Clooney tried out for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
In 1987, George Clooney began dating actress Kelly Preston.
In 1989, George Clooney and Kelly Preston ended their relationship.
In 1989, George Clooney married actress Talia Balsam.
In 1993, George Clooney and Talia Balsam divorced.
In 1995, George Clooney dated Cameron Diaz and Frances Fisher.
In 1995, George Clooney purchased a 7,354-square-foot house in Los Angeles through his George Guilfoyle Trust.
In 1996, George Clooney began dating French reality TV personality Céline Balitran.
In 1999, George Clooney and Céline Balitran ended their relationship.
In 2000, George Clooney was linked to Charlize Theron and Lucy Liu.
In 2001, George Clooney dated Renée Zellweger.
In 2002, George Clooney dated Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Krista Allen.
In 2005, TV Guide ranked George Clooney No. 1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.
In 2005, the movie Good Night, and Good Luck was released which George Clooney wrote and directed.
In April 2006, George Clooney spent ten days in Chad and Sudan with his father to create the TV special A Journey to Darfur, reflecting the situation of Darfur's refugees, and advocated for action.
In August 2006, George Clooney and Grant Heslov started the production company Smokehouse Pictures.
In October 2006, George Clooney received the American Cinematheque Award, which recognizes contributions to the art of motion pictures.
In 2006, George Clooney dated Linda Thompson.
In 2006, George Clooney made humorous statements against Republican Party figures including Jack Abramoff and Steve Wynn.
In 2006, Max, the Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig George Clooney gifted to Kelly Preston and kept for 18 years after their breakup, died.
On March 25, 2007, George Clooney sent an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, urging the European Union to take decisive action regarding the Darfur conflict.
In June 2007, George Clooney began dating reality personality Sarah Larson.
On September 21, 2007, George Clooney and then-girlfriend Sarah Larson were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey, when his motorcycle was hit by a car.
On October 9, 2007, over two dozen staff at Palisades Medical Center were suspended for looking at George Clooney's medical records without permission, violating federal law.
In November 2007, George Clooney appeared in the documentary film Darfur Now, a call-to-action film urging people worldwide to help stop the Darfur crisis.
In December 2007, George Clooney and Don Cheadle received the Summit Peace Award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome for their efforts regarding Darfur.
In 2007, George Clooney starred in the movie 'Michael Clayton'.
In 2007, George Clooney was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
On January 18, 2008, the United Nations announced George Clooney's appointment as a UN messenger of peace, effective January 31.
On January 22, 2008, George Clooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in "Michael Clayton" (2007), but he lost to Daniel Day-Lewis.
In February 2008, Time magazine's cover story was titled "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star."
On April 4, 2008, George Clooney resigned from the Writers Guild of America over a dispute regarding writing credit for "Leatherheads".
In May 2008, George Clooney and Sarah Larson broke up.
In 2008, George Clooney supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
In 2008, the TV special A Journey to Darfur was released on DVD with proceeds going to the International Rescue Committee. In September of the same year, George Clooney spoke to the UN Security Council with Elie Wiesel, advocating for a resolution to the Darfur conflict.
In February 2009, George Clooney visited Goz Beida, Chad, with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof to raise awareness about mass atrocities.
In July 2009, George Clooney began a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis.
In November 2009, George Clooney starred in "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and voiced the title character in "Fantastic Mr. Fox".
On December 25, 2009, "Up in the Air", starring George Clooney, had its wide release.
In 2009, George Clooney was again named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
In January 2010, George Clooney organized the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.
In 2010, George Clooney produced and starred in "The American", a dark crime drama.
In May 2011, George Clooney and John Prendergast co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece titled "Dancing with a dictator in Sudan."
In June 2011, George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis split.
In July 2011, George Clooney began dating former WWE personnel Stacy Keibler.
In 2011, George Clooney starred in "The Descendants", receiving critical acclaim and several award nominations.
In March 2012, George Clooney starred with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play 8, a reenactment of the trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage, as attorney David Boies. The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube.
On March 16, 2012, George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy for civil disobedience during a planned protest against Omar al-Bashir. Martin Luther King III was also arrested.
In September 2012, George Clooney offered to take an auction winner out to lunch to benefit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to create a safe space in schools for children who are or may be perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
In 2012, George Clooney supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
In July 2013, George Clooney and Stacy Keibler ended their relationship.
In 2013, George Clooney co-founded Casamigos Tequila with Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman.
In 2013, George Clooney produced August: Osage County, an adaptation of the play of the same name.
In 2013, George Clooney won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing "Argo".
On April 28, 2014, George Clooney became engaged to British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
In July 2014, George Clooney publicly mocked the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail and refused to accept their apology for a false story about his fiancée's mother.
On August 7, 2014, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin obtained marriage licenses at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the United Kingdom.
On September 27, 2014, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin were officially married at Ca' Farsetti, in a ceremony officiated by Walter Veltroni.
In 2014, George Clooney and his wife Amal Alamuddin bought the Grade II listed Mill House on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in Oxfordshire, England.
In 2014, George Clooney co-wrote, directed, and starred in "The Monuments Men", which received negative reviews.
In 2014, George Clooney rejected an apology from the Daily Mail for printing a false story, calling the Mail the "worst kind of tabloid."
In May 2015, George Clooney told the BBC that the Syrian conflict was too complicated politically to get involved in and he wanted to focus on helping the refugees.
In 2015, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin adopted a rescue dog, a Basset Hound named Millie, from the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society.
In 2015, George Clooney played Frank Walker in "Tomorrowland" and appeared as himself in "A Very Murray Christmas".
In 2015, George Clooney was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.
In February 2016, George Clooney starred in "Hail, Caesar!", a comedy from the Coen brothers.
In March 2016, George Clooney and his wife Amal met with Syrian refugees in Berlin and thanked German chancellor Angela Merkel for Germany's open-door policy.
In April 2016, George Clooney visited Armenia to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
In 2016, George Clooney endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidential election.
On February 9, 2017, The Talk reported that Amal Clooney was pregnant with twins.
On June 6, 2017, Amal Clooney gave birth to twins, a daughter named Ella and a son named Alexander.
In June 2017, Casamigos Tequila, co-founded by George Clooney, was sold to Diageo for $700 million.
In October 2017, George Clooney's directorial project "Suburbicon" was released.
According to Forbes annual ranking, George Clooney was the world's highest-paid actor for 2017–2018, earning $239 million between June 1, 2017, and June 1, 2018.
On June 7, 2018, George Clooney received the 2018 AFI Life Achievement Award.
On July 10, 2018, George Clooney was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle to a film set in Sardinia, resulting in minor injuries and hospitalization.
In 2018, following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, George and Amal Clooney pledged $500,000 to the March for Our Lives and said they would attend the march.
On March 28, 2019, George Clooney wrote an open letter calling for the boycott of the Sultan of Brunei's hotels over a new law that punishes homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning.
On April 3, 2019, Brunei's new law came into force, punishing homosexual sex and adultery with death by stoning, leading to George Clooney's call for a boycott of the Sultan of Brunei's hotels.
On May 31, 2019, George Clooney's Hulu historical miniseries "Catch-22" premiered.
In July 2020, George Clooney endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election and co-hosted a virtual fundraiser with Obama.
On August 7, 2020, George and Amal Clooney donated $100,000 to three Lebanese charities - the Lebanese Red Cross, Impact Lebanon, and Baytna Baytak - after the devastating explosion in Beirut.
In 2020, George Clooney revealed that his twins, Ella and Alexander, can speak Italian fluently, despite neither he nor Amal speaking the language.
In February 2021, it was reported that George Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures would produce a docuseries about the Ohio State University abuse scandal.
In May 2021, it was reported that George Clooney plans to buy a vineyard near the village of Brignoles, in France.
In November 2021, George Clooney wrote an op-ed to The Daily Mail, petitioning them to stop publishing photos of his children due to safety concerns.
On December 22, 2021, George Clooney's film "The Tender Bar" had its nationwide premiere.
On January 7, 2022, George Clooney's film "The Tender Bar" began streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Ticket to Paradise, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, was initally scheduled to release on September 30, 2022, but was later pushed back.
George Clooney reunited with Julia Roberts for "Ticket to Paradise", which was released on October 21, 2022.
George Clooney's film as a director was the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat which was released on December 25, 2023.
As of 2023, George Clooney is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
In a July 2024 op-ed for The New York Times, George Clooney called for Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election due to concerns about his age and performance.
George Clooney re-teamed with Brad Pitt for the Apple TV+ thriller film Wolfs (2024) which premiered to positive reviews at the Venice International Film Festival.
The film, titled Surviving Ohio State, is scheduled for release on June 17, 2025.
In 2025, George Clooney made his Broadway debut in the stage adaption of Good Night, and Good Luck, portraying Edward R. Murrow.
In 2025, George Clooney was honored with a Theatre World Award for his performance in Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway.
In 2025, while promoting his Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney stated that he stood by his choice in writing the op-ed calling for Biden to withdraw from 2024 election saying, "I was raised to tell the truth."
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