George Timothy Clooney (born could half-dozen, 1961) is AN yankee actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter. He has received 3 Golden Globe Awards for his work as AN actor, and 2 Academy Awards — one for acting and therefore the different for manufacturing. Clooney is additionally noted for his political policy, and has served together of the international organisation Messengers of Peace since 2008.
Clooney created his acting debut on tv in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Douglas “Doug” Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, that he received 2 laurels Award nominations. whereas acting on ER, he began attracting a spread of leading roles in films, as well as attendant & Robin(1997) and Out of Sight (1998), within which he initial worked with long collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 1999 Clooney took the lead role in 3 Kings, a well-received war caustic remark set throughout the Gulf War. In the year of 2001, Clooney’s fame widened with the discharge of his biggest business success, Ocean’s Eleven, the primary of a profitable film triad, a remake of the film from 1960 with the members of the Rat Pack with player as Danny Ocean. He created his directorial debut a year later with the 2002 history adventure story Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed word of farewell, and sensible Luck (2005),Leatherheads (2008), and therefore the day of March (2011). He won AN honour for Best Supporting Actor for his role within the geographic region adventure story Syriana (2005) and later gained Best Actor nominations for such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Up within the Air (2009) and therefore the Descendants (2011). In 2013, he received the honour for Best image for manufacturing the film Argo, aboard mountain Affleck and Grant Heslov. he’s the sole person to ever be appointive for Academy Awards in six completely different classes.
In 2005, TV Guide hierarchical Clooney #1 on its “50 Sexiest Stars of All Time” lists.
Clooney’s humanitarian work includes his support of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the Haiti earthquake of 2010, tidal wave of 2004, and 9/11 victims, and making documentaries like Sand and Sorrow to lift awareness concerning international crises. he’s conjointly a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
