<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter, film producer, film director, entrepreneur, television producer, television director, voice actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has won three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards: one for his role as an actor in Syriana (2006) and one as a co-producer in Argo (2012). In 2018, he received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:260/194;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/873157c2-a35b-4e1d-b593-c91283261937.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">You can follow the news and</span></span> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sbsial.com/ar/features/celebrity-ads"><span lang="ar">announcements of celebrities</span></a> <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">and all their</span></span> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sbsial.com/ar/features/exclusive-content"><span lang="ar">exclusive content</span></a> <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">that you can only find through the Special application, which is</span></span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sbsial.com/ar"><span lang="ar">a social networking application</span></a> <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">with special and unique features, as it includes a podcast that provides many unique features, as you can launch</span></span> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sbsial.com/ar/features/podcast-and-voice-recording"><span lang="ar">a podcast</span></a> <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">with your friends or listen to others, and it also provides information about</span></span> the <span style="background-color:unset;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;"><span lang="ar">various</span></span> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sbsial.com/ar/features/celebrity-collectibles"><span lang="ar">possessions of celebrities</span></a> .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> George Clooney began his career in 1978 acting on television, and later gained international acclaim for his portrayal of Dr. Doug Ross on the drama series ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he was nominated twice for a Primetime Emmy Award. While on ER, he began receiving a variety of leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the crime comedy Out of Sight (1998), his first collaboration with long-time collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 1999, he had the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:770/513;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/b74c4977-b210-471b-bc15-bd376528bbd6.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2001, Clooney's fame expanded with the release of his most commercially successful film, the heist comedy remake Ocean's Eleven, the first part of the trilogy, starring Clooney. He made his directorial debut a year after Ocean's Eleven, making the spy comedy Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the sports comedy Leatherheads (2008), the political drama Ides of March (2011), and the war film The Monuments Men (2014). Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle Eastern film Syriana (2005), and subsequently received Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), the comedy-drama Up in the Air (2009), and The Descendants (2011). In 2013, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo. </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:615/370;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/5b80776c-34d9-44d3-9716-1dcb7ff37feb.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> George Clooney has been nominated for six Academy Awards, a record he shares with Walt Disney and Alfonso Cuarón. Clooney was named to the annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also known for his political and economic activism.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2014, he became engaged to Lebanese-born human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and international magazines published photos of their engagement. He married her that same year, and they had twins.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> career<br> Early Works, 1978-1993<br> Clooney's first role was as an extra in the 1978 television miniseries *Centennial*, which was based on the novel of the same name by James Michener and filmed partially in Clooney's hometown of Augusta, Kentucky. Clooney's first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom *E/R* (not to be confused with *ER*, the acclaimed hospital drama, which Clooney also starred in a decade later). He played a hotshot on *The Facts of Life* and appeared as "Bobby Hopkins," a detective, in an episode of *The Golden Girls*. His first notable role was a semi-regular supporting role on the sitcom *Roseanne*, playing Booker Brooks, Roseanne Barr's supervisor. This was followed by a construction worker role in *Baby Talk*.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> George co-starred in the CBS drama *Bodies of Evidence* as Detective Ryan Walker. He then played Det. James Falconer for a year in *Sisters*. Clooney had a small role in the horror comedy *The Killer Tomatoes Return* in 1988. He starred in *Sunset Beat*, a short-lived ABC police drama. During this time, Clooney was a student at the Beverly Hills Playhouse School of Drama for five years.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> George Clooney rose to fame playing Dr. Doug Ross from 1994 to 1999, alongside Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, and Noah Wylie, on the NBC medical drama ER. After leaving the series in 1999, he appeared in a cameo role in the sixth season and returned in a guest spot in the show's final season. For his work on the series, Clooney received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1995 and 1996. He also received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama in 1995, 1996, and 1997 (losing to co-star Anthony Edwards). </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:1200/770;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/8898e2e8-5af7-46a5-b56b-67614b9ce765.jpeg" ></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">George Clooney's early appearance</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> George Clooney began his film career while working on ER. His first major Hollywood role was in the crime comedy horror film From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-starring Harvey Keitel. He followed this success with the romantic comedy One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and the thriller Peacemaker with Nicole Kidman.<br> Clooney next played Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which performed modestly at the box office and was a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling it a "waste of money"). In 1998, he starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in the comedy Out of Sight, his first collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh. He starred in Three Kings during the final weeks of his contract with ER.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">George Clooney's private life</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> George Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 until their divorce in 1993. After this incident, Clooney announced his remarriage ban.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 1996, Clooney met a young French waitress named Céline Palermo at a café on the Champs-Élysées in Paris while he was filming Peacemaker. A few months later, she moved with him to Los Angeles, where they remained together for three years until their split in 1999. Afterward, during a Martini commercial in 2000, Clooney began a relationship with British model Lisa Snowdon, which lasted five years, interspersed with breakups. </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:1280/720;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/e21246a4-d339-4433-9506-e7255e21b357.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> From 2009 to June 2011, he dated Italian model Elisabetta Canalis. In October 2011, he officially announced his relationship with former wrestling star Stacy Keibler, after they appeared together at the New York Film Festival screening of his film "The Descendants." They broke up in July 2013.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In 2013, George met Amal Alamuddin during a meeting with a friend in Lake Como, Italy. According to Amal Alamuddin's law firm, Doughty Street Chambers, she became engaged to the actor on April 28, 2014, a news that brought her under the scrutiny of the international press. In July 2014, Clooney publicly criticized the British tabloid, the Daily Mail, after it claimed that his fiancée's mother opposed their marriage for religious reasons. The newspaper apologized for the false story, but Clooney refused to accept the apology, describing the newspaper as "the worst kind of tabloid, fabricating news even at the expense of its readers." </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:1000/1000;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/84557046-ed11-482f-9aaa-07f6037a9ed4.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> On August 7, 2014, Clooney and his fiancée obtained marriage licenses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> On September 27, 2014, George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in a ceremony in Venice, where they were married by Walter Veltroni, the former mayor of Rome and Clooney's friend. In 2015, the Clooneys adopted a rescue dog named Millie from the San Gabriel Humane Society. </p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:1500/1008;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/31e17325-c917-49d6-a471-0d3a389bdac0.jpeg" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In February 2017, it was reported on The Talk that Clooney and her husband were pregnant with twins. This was confirmed by family friend and actor Matt Damon on Entertainment Tonight. In June 2017, Amal gave birth to twins, a boy named Alexander and a girl named Ella.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Clooney was raised a devout Catholic, but said in 2006 that he didn't know if he believed in "heaven, or even God." Of his upbringing, he said, "Yes, we were Catholic, the whole family, the whole group."</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Nominations and Awards</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> Oscars<br> Best Director 2005 for Good Night, And Good Luck<br> Best Original Screenplay (shared with Grant Heslov) 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck<br> Best Supporting Actor 2005 for Syriana<br> Best Actor in a Leading Role 2008 for Michael Clayton<br> Best Actor in a Leading Role 2010 for Up in the Air<br> Best Producer of 2012 for Argo<br> Golden Globe<br> Best Drama Actor in a Television Series 1996 for "ER"<br> Best Drama Actor in a Television Series 1997 for "ER"<br> Best Drama Actor in a Television Series 1998 for "ER"<br> Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy in 2001 for O Brother, Where Art Thou?<br> Best Director 2005 for Good Night, And Good Luck<br> Best Original Screenplay (shared with Grant Heslov) 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck<br> Best Supporting Actor 2005 for Syriana<br> Best Actor in a Drama Series 2008 for Michael Clayton<br> Best Drama Actor 2010 for Up in the Air<br> Best Actor in a Drama 2012 for The Descendants <br></p><figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75%;"><img style="aspect-ratio:700/465;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/a4462808-f2ab-4515-9a73-73f468dccd10.jpeg" ></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Some of his films</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br> Harvest 1993<br> Batman & Robin 1997<br> Peacemaker 1997<br> South Park 1999 (sound)<br> Three Kings 1999<br> Bro, where are you? 2000<br> Ocean's 11 2001<br> Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002<br> Ocean 12 2004<br> Good evening, good luck 2005<br> Syriac 2005<br> The Good German 2006<br> Sand and Sorrow 2007<br> Ocean's Thirteen 2007<br> Michael Clayton 2007<br> The Men Who Stare at Goats 2008<br> Up in the Air 2009<br> American 2010<br> mid-March 2011<br> Grandchildren 2011<br> I hope 2012<br> Gravity 2013<br> Archaeologists 2014<br> Tomorrowland 2015<br> Money Monster 2016<br> Long live the Tsar 2016<br> Ocean's 8 2018</p>