George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney (born the May 6th 1961 with Lexington (Kentucky)) is an American actor, made famous thanks to its role of Doctor Doug Ross in the series Urgences , then by a career with the cinema.

Biography

His/her father is journalist. His/her mother, Nina Warren, were a ex-queen of beauty and her aunt, Rosemary Clooney, a famous singer of the Années 1950 and an actress. The latter made besides two appearances during the first season of Urgencies. His/her sister, Ada, are one year old more than him. It has two children (Alison and Nick). His/her brother-in-law is deceased in 2004.

Arrived at Los Angeles in 1982 to launch out in a career of actor, against the paternal opinion, it runs the cacheton. He will play in fifteen pilots of series but ever diffused, or in nanars such as the Return of tueuses tomatos . To note that the first series in which it appears entitles E/R , very similar title of the series which will make a star of it, ER ( Urgences in French). He will make many appearances in the first season of Roseanne . One will often on TV see it in supporting roles, in particular in Facts off Life , Baby Talk , Sisters , Bodies off obviousness , Murder she wrote , (Arabesque) , mechanical Tonnerre .

Accepting several action films with the remunerative seals at its beginnings in the cinema at the end of the Years 1990, it is allowed from now on to play for quite less seals in films of author like O' Brother , for which it received the Golden Globe better actor in a musical film or of comedy. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde published on August 30th, 2000, it had explained why it had agreed to play for almost nothing by a question: “How much time is it necessary to touch 20 million dollars to be happy? ”

In 2000, it founds the company Section Eight with its accomplice of Horsdeatteinte , Steven Soderbergh. Their ambition, to create within a studio, in fact Warner Bros., an entity able to produce ambitious films, not inevitably general public, and to protect its authors from the normal process of a studio. In will leave films as different as Far from the paradise , Bienvenue in Collinwood , Ocean' S Eleven and Twelve , Confessions of a dangerous man , The Jacket , Criminal , etc the two partners puts a term at the activities of Section eight in March 2007.

In 2002, it carried out its first film, Confessions of a dangerous man ( Confessions off has Dangerous Mind ), adapted improbable autobiography of the producer of television Chuck Barris. It gained a pretty critical success failing to find its public.

In March 2005, it was again harnessed with the realization with a film which it has Co-writing with one of his best friends, Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck which tells the combat of Edward Murrow against McCarthy in the middle of the years 1950. The film, made in black and white, will be in competition with the Mostra of Venice and will make the opening of the Festival of New York in September 2005. It profited then from very good will have. With equal of another of its films also envisaged for the autumn 2005: Syriana of Stephen Gaghan (author of the scenario of Traffic ) for which it had to take fifteen to twenty kilos in order to interpret the role of Robert Barnes, agent of the CIA. During a scene, it was seriously wounded with the spinal column, which was worth a long hospitalization to him several weeks. In December 2006, he always suffers from the after-effects of his accident since he acknowledged carried a corset during the promotion of his last film The Good German . Following this wound, the insurances had a time refused to go guarantee during the turning of Good night, and good luck . It then pawned its house of Los Angeles. The insurers then reconsidered their decision.

In June 2005, the festival of independent film of Los Angeles allots to him its first price of spirit independent in order to honor its career and its choices while prevailing a cinema with ambitious author rather than of the blockbusters sometimes not very tasty.

It found its accomplice Soderbergh for a fifth film in October 2005, The Good German , turned in black and white. Then connected in January 2006 with Michael Clayton , turned in New York. In July 2006, it found its accomplices of Ocean' S 11 and 12 for the ultimate adventures of Danny Ocean and its band of hold-up man. He and Steven Soderbergh affirmed that Ocean' S 13 would be the ultimate shutter of the trilogy.

In August 2006, it founds with his large friend and Co-scenario writer of Good night, and good luck, Grant Heslov a new business of production: Smoke house, under the same precepts as Eight Section. The name is a wink at the restaurant of the same name located at the doors of the studio of Warner with Burbank (California) and whose George Clooney is a regular customer.

In 2006, the actor and American realizer George Clooney are " the man in life more sexy" , according to the People weekly magazine in its special edition, annual institution of the press magazine. It had already received this honor in 1997. It is the only personality with Brad Pitt to have received twice this title.

Private side, it left with Céline Balitran, LISA Snowdon, Krista Allen… It is currently with Sarah Larson.

Its political action

In 2001, it uses its celebrity for raising funds for the victims of the attacks of September 11th, then those of the Tsunami in 2004 and 2005 for those of the cyclone Katrina. It also gave an opinion against the war of the Iraq since 2003. In September 2006, it went with George Bush Sr in Louisiana in order to give the gifts collected for the rehabilitation of a hospital put at evil by the two cyclones which ransacked the area one year earlier.

During 2006, the actor was mobilized for the Darfur. In September 2006, with Elie Wiesel, it was received by the Safety advice of the United Nations so that cease the Génocide in Darfur. In December 2006, he acknowledged that the people whom he had met (then helped financially) at the time of his voyage in the area with his father were probably all died following the setting with bag of their camp In December 2006, he went with the American actor Don Cheadle like several high level athletes to China and Egypt. They met each time the chief of the diplomacy of the country in order to convince it to make pressure on the government of the Sudan so that the exactions cease over there and that it accepts the sending of the Blue helmets. March 25th, 2007, it published an open letter in destination of the Germany, margin of the top of the heads of state and government of the European Union which was held this day, and requested from the European Chancelière and its counterparts to make pressure on Sudan. Special correspondent who diffused an exclusive interview announced that it had had a phone conversation at the end of May with Bernard Kouchner, the new chief of the French diplomacy. Moreover, the previews in Cannes and the United States d' Ocean' S 13 were the occasion of evenings of charity to the profit of Not one our watch, the association created by George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Jerry Weintraub with the profit of the Darfur.

Catalog of films

Realizer

Actor

Rewards and nominations

External bond

  • Card IMDB

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