
About
George Clooney
Overview
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his work in blockbusters and independent films, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and four Golden Globe Awards. His honors include the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Honorary César, the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor.
Clooney started acting in television in the late 1970s and later gained wide recognition as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He expanded to leading roles in films, with his breakthrough role in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), followed by Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). Greater stardom came from his starring role in Soderbergh's Ocean's film series from 2001 to 2007. Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana(2005) and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007) and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and Ticket to Paradise (2022).
Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and has since directed the historical drama Good Night and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020) and the biographical sports drama The Boys in the Boat (2023). He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). As of 2023, he is one of four people to have been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
Clooney was included on Time's annual Time 100 list, which identifies the most influential people in the world, every year from 2006 to 2009. He is also noted for his political and economic activism. He has been one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Known for
Acting |
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2025 | Jay Kelly | Actor | Jay Kelly | N/A N/A |
2025 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Actor | Edward R. Murrow | 58 Average |
2024 | Wolfs | Actor | Margaret's Man | 63 Fair |
2024 | George Clooney: Leading Man | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2024 | IF | Actor | Spaceman (voice) | 67 Fair |
2023 | The Flash | Actor | Bruce Wayne (uncredited) | 65 Fair |
2023 | Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2022 | Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2022 | Ticket to Paradise | Actor | David Cotton | 62 Fair |
2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2020 | The Midnight Sky | Actor | Augustine Lofthouse | 57 Average |
2020 | In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2020 | Grizzly II: Revenge | Actor | Ron | 56 Average |
2020 | A Thousand Cuts | Actor | himself | 59 Average |
2019 | Catch-22 | Actor | Scheisskopf | 73 Good |
2019 | Rose McGowan: Being Brave | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2018 | Trump @War | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2018 | Fahrenheit 11/9 | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 64 Fair |
2018 | Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
2018 | Always at The Carlyle | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2017 | Plankton Salesmen | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2017 | Architects of Denial | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2017 | Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2016 | Money Monster | Actor | Lee Gates | 63 Fair |
2016 | Being George Clooney | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2016 | Hail, Caesar! | Actor | Baird Whitlock | 59 Average |
2016 | Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2015 | America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
2015 | A Very Murray Christmas | Actor | George Clooney | 56 Average |
2015 | Tomorrowland | Actor | Frank Walker | 62 Fair |
2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 59 Average |
2014 | The Monuments Men | Actor | Lt. Frank Stokes | 60 Fair |
2014 | We Come as Friends | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2013 | JFK: One PM Central Standard Time | Actor | Self- Narrator | 59 Average |
2013 | Gravity | Actor | Matt Kowalski | 71 Good |
2012 | Radioman | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2012 | La Classe américaine | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2012 | Anton Corbijn Inside Out | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2012 | 8 | Actor | David Boies | 58 Average |
2011 | The Ides of March | Actor | Mike Morris | 65 Fair |
2011 | The Descendants | Actor | Matt King | 66 Fair |
2011 | His Way | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2010 | The American | Actor | Jack / Edward | 59 Average |
2009 | Up in the Air | Actor | Ryan Bingham | 67 Fair |
2009 | Paris Hilton, Inc. | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2009 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Actor | Lyn Cassady | 59 Average |
2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Actor | Mr. Fox (voice) | 76 Good |
2008 | His Highness Hollywood | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2008 | Burn After Reading | Actor | Harry Pfarrer | 65 Fair |
2008 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2008 | Leatherheads | Actor | Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly | 58 Average |
2007 | Sand and Sorrow | Actor | Narrator / Self | 58 Average |
2007 | Darfur Now | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2007 | Michael Clayton | Actor | Michael Clayton | 65 Fair |
2007 | Ocean's Thirteen | Actor | Danny Ocean | 66 Fair |
2007 | Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2006 | The Good German | Actor | Jake Geismar | 58 Average |
2006 | Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive | Actor | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2006 | The 78th Annual Academy Awards | Actor | Self - Presenter & Winner | N/A N/A |
2006 | Tarantino's Mind | Actor | Seth Gecko (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2005 | Syriana | Actor | Bob Barnes | 62 Fair |
2005 | Live 8 | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Actor | Fred Friendly | 66 Fair |
2005 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Actor | Danny Ocean | 65 Fair |
2004 | A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Actor | Miles | 59 Average |
2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Actor | Devlin | 52 Average |
2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Actor | Jim Byrd | 64 Fair |
2002 | Solaris | Actor | Chris Kelvin | 59 Average |
2002 | Welcome to Collinwood | Actor | Jerzy | 59 Average |
2002 | 'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2001 | Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes | Actor | Batman (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Actor | Danny Ocean | 74 Good |
2001 | Spy Kids | Actor | Devlin | 58 Average |
2000 | Inside Look: Down from the Mountain | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2000 | The Coen Brothers | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2000 | Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Actor | Everett | 71 Good |
2000 | The Book That Wrote Itself | Actor | George Clooney | 58 Average |
2000 | An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube | Actor | Himself | 59 Average |
2000 | The Perfect Storm | Actor | Capt. Billy Tyne | 63 Fair |
2000 | Fail Safe | Actor | Col. Jack Grady | 60 Fair |
1999 | Three Kings | Actor | Archie Gates | 65 Fair |
1999 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Actor | Dr. Gouache (voice) | 70 Good |
1998 | The Thin Red Line | Actor | Capt. Charles Bosche | 72 Good |
1998 | Full Tilt Boogie | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1998 | Out of Sight | Actor | Jack Foley | 64 Fair |
1998 | Waiting for Woody Allen | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1997 | The Peacemaker | Actor | Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe | 59 Average |
1997 | Batman & Robin | Actor | Bruce Wayne / Batman | 45 Bad |
1996 | One Fine Day | Actor | Jack Taylor | 61 Fair |
1996 | Curdled | Actor | Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited) | 58 Average |
1996 | From Dusk Till Dawn | Actor | Seth Gecko | 69 Fair |
1993 | The Harvest | Actor | Lip Syncing Transvestite | 58 Average |
1993 | Without Warning: Terror in the Towers | Actor | Kevin Shea | 58 Average |
1993 | The Magic Bubble | Actor | Mac | 58 Average |
1992 | Bodies of Evidence | Actor | Det. Ryan Walker | 69 Fair |
1991 | Rewrite for Murder | Actor | Nick Bianco | N/A N/A |
1989 | Red Surf | Actor | Remar | 57 Average |
1988 | Return of the Killer Tomatoes! | Actor | Matt Stevens | 58 Average |
1987 | Return to Horror High | Actor | Oliver | 56 Average |
1986 | Combat Academy | Actor | Maj. Biff Woods | 58 Average |
1982 | And They're Off | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Ocean's 14 | Actor | Danny Ocean | N/A N/A |
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Inside 'Out of Sight' | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
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The Mexican Invade | Actor | German (voice) | N/A N/A |
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Bennett Brothers | Actor | Tom Bennett | N/A N/A |
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Knights of the Kitchen Table | Actor | Rick Stepjack | N/A N/A |
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Hot Prospects | Actor | Ben Braddock | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2023 | The Boys in the Boat | Directing | Director | 63 Fair |
2021 | The Tender Bar | Directing | Director | 62 Fair |
2020 | The Midnight Sky | Directing | Director | 57 Average |
2017 | Suburbicon | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2014 | The Monuments Men | Directing | Director | 60 Fair |
2011 | The Ides of March | Directing | Director | 65 Fair |
2008 | Leatherheads | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Directing | Director | 66 Fair |
2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Directing | Director | 64 Fair |
Echo | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Calico Joe | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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2025 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Writing | Original Film Writer | 58 Average |
2025 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2017 | Suburbicon | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
2014 | The Monuments Men | Writing | Screenplay | 60 Fair |
2011 | The Ides of March | Writing | Screenplay | 65 Fair |
2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Writing | Screenplay | 66 Fair |
Ocean's 14 | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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2025 | Surviving Ohio State | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2025 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
2024 | The Agency: Central Intelligence | Production | Executive Producer | 71 Good |
2024 | Wolfs | Production | Producer | 63 Fair |
2023 | The Boys in the Boat | Production | Producer | 63 Fair |
2022 | Ticket to Paradise | Production | Producer | 62 Fair |
2021 | The Tender Bar | Production | Producer | 62 Fair |
2020 | The Art of Political Murder | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2020 | The Midnight Sky | Production | Producer | 57 Average |
2020 | Trial by Media | Production | Executive Producer | 69 Fair |
2019 | On Becoming a God in Central Florida | Production | Executive Producer | 67 Fair |
2018 | Ocean's Eight | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |
2017 | Suburbicon | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2016 | Money Monster | Production | Producer | 63 Fair |
2015 | Our Brand Is Crisis | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2014 | The Monuments Men | Production | Producer | 60 Fair |
2013 | August: Osage County | Production | Producer | 66 Fair |
2012 | Argo | Production | Producer | 72 Good |
2011 | The Ides of March | Production | Producer | 65 Fair |
2010 | The American | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2010 | Memphis Beat | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |
2009 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2009 | The Informant! | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
2009 | Playground | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
2008 | Leatherheads | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2007 | Michael Clayton | Production | Executive Producer | 65 Fair |
2007 | Wind Chill | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
2006 | Pu-239 | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2006 | A Scanner Darkly | Production | Executive Producer | 66 Fair |
2005 | Rumor Has It... | Production | Executive Producer | 57 Average |
2005 | Syriana | Production | Executive Producer | 62 Fair |
2005 | The Big Empty | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2005 | The Jacket | Production | Producer | 66 Fair |
2005 | Unscripted | Production | Producer | 70 Good |
2004 | Criminal | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
2003 | K Street | Production | Producer | 67 Fair |
2002 | Far from Heaven | Production | Executive Producer | 65 Fair |
2002 | Welcome to Collinwood | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
2002 | Insomnia | Production | Executive Producer | 68 Fair |
2001 | Rock Star | Production | Executive Producer | 63 Fair |
2000 | Fail Safe | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
Ocean's 14 | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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Calico Joe | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |
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Jennifer Government | Production | Producer | N/A N/A |