George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) 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.
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Primarily2025 Jay Kelly as Jay Kelly
2025 Surviving Ohio State Producer
2025 Inside 'Out of Sight' as Himself
2025 Calico Joe Producer, Director
2025 Ocean's 14 Producer
2025 Echo Director
2024 The Agency: Central Intelligence Executive Producer
2024 Wolfs as Margaret's Man Producer
2024 George Clooney: Leading Man as Self
2024 IF as Spaceman (voice)
2023 The Boys in the Boat Producer, Director
2023 The Flash as Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
2023 Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective as Self (archive footage)
2022 Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter as Self
2022 Ticket to Paradise as David Cotton Producer
2021 The Tender Bar Producer, Director
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 The Art of Political Murder Executive Producer
2020 The Midnight Sky as Augustine Lofthouse Director, Producer
2020 In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat as Self
2020 Grizzly II: Revenge as Ron
2020 A Thousand Cuts as himself
2019 Rose McGowan: Being Brave as Self
2018 Trump @War as Self (archive footage)
2018 Fahrenheit 11/9 as Self (archive footage)
2018 Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres as Narrator
2018 Ocean's Eight Producer
2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self
2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
2017 Suburbicon Writer, Director, Producer
2017 Architects of Denial as Self
2017 Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief as Self
2016 Money Monster as Lee Gates Producer
2016 Being George Clooney as Self (archive footage)
2016 Hail, Caesar! as Baird Whitlock
2016 Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You as Self
2015 America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis as Narrator (voice)
2015 A Very Murray Christmas as George Clooney
2015 Our Brand Is Crisis Producer
2015 Tomorrowland as Frank Walker
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self - Interviewee
2014 The Monuments Men as Lt. Frank Stokes Producer, Screenplay, Director
2014 We Come as Friends as Self
2013 August: Osage County Producer
2013 JFK: One PM Central Standard Time as Self- Narrator
2013 Gravity as Matt Kowalski
2012 Radioman as Self
2012 Argo Producer
2012 La Classe américaine as Self
2012 Anton Corbijn Inside Out as Self
2012 8 as David Boies
2011 Touch of Evil as The Tyrant
2011 The Ides of March as Mike Morris Screenplay, Producer, Director
2011 The Descendants as Matt King
2011 His Way as Self
2010 The American as Jack / Edward Producer
2009 Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
2009 Paris Hilton, Inc. as Self (archive footage)
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats as Lyn Cassady Producer
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Mr. Fox (voice)
2009 The Informant! Executive Producer
2009 Playground Executive Producer
2008 His Highness Hollywood as Self
2008 Burn After Reading as Harry Pfarrer
2008 You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story as Self
2008 Leatherheads as Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly Producer, Director
2007 Sand and Sorrow as Narrator / Self
2007 Darfur Now as Self
2007 Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton Executive Producer
2007 Ocean's Thirteen as Danny Ocean
2007 Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens as Self
2007 Wind Chill Executive Producer
2006 The Good German as Jake Geismar
2006 Pu-239 Executive Producer
2006 A Scanner Darkly Executive Producer
2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2006 Tarantino's Mind as Seth Gecko (archive footage)
2005 Rumor Has It... Executive Producer
2005 Syriana as Bob Barnes Executive Producer
2005 Live 8 as Self
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck. as Fred Friendly Screenplay, Director
2005 The Big Empty Executive Producer
2005 The Jacket Producer
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004 Ocean's Twelve as Danny Ocean
2004 Criminal Producer
2004 A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty as Self
2003 Intolerable Cruelty as Miles
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as Devlin
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Jim Byrd Director
2002 Solaris as Chris Kelvin
2002 Far from Heaven Executive Producer
2002 Welcome to Collinwood as Jerzy Executive Producer
2002 Insomnia Executive Producer
2002 'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con as Self
2001 Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Batman (archive footage)
2001 Ocean's Eleven as Danny Ocean
2001 America | A Tribute to Heroes as Self
2001 Rock Star Executive Producer
2001 Spy Kids as Devlin
2000 Inside Look: Down from the Mountain as Self
2000 The Coen Brothers as Self
2000 Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' as Self
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? as Everett
2000 The Book That Wrote Itself as George Clooney
2000 An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube as Himself
2000 The Perfect Storm as Capt. Billy Tyne
2000 Fail Safe as Col. Jack Grady Executive Producer
1999 Three Kings as Archie Gates
1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut as Dr. Gouache (voice)
1998 The Thin Red Line as Capt. Charles Bosche
1998 Full Tilt Boogie as Self
1998 Out of Sight as Jack Foley
1997 The Peacemaker as Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
1997 Batman & Robin as Bruce Wayne / Batman
1996 One Fine Day as Jack Taylor
1996 Curdled as Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn as Seth Gecko
1993 The Harvest as Lip Syncing Transvestite
1993 Without Warning: Terror in the Towers as Kevin Shea
1992 The Magic Bubble as Mac
1991 Rewrite for Murder as Nick Bianco
1990 Sunset Beat as Chic Chesbro
1989 Red Surf as Remar
1988 Return of the Killer Tomatoes! as Matt Stevens
1987 Return to Horror High as Oliver
1986 Combat Academy as Maj. Biff Woods
1982 And They're Off