George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for his leading man roles on screen in both blockbuster and independent films, Clooney has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and four Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award. His honours include the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2022. Clooney's breakthrough role came as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–1999), for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He established himself as a film star with roles in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Ocean's film series (2001–2007). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a CIA officer in Syriana (2005). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air(2009) and The Descendants (2011). He has also starred in Burn After Reading (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), and Jay Kelly (2025). Clooney has directed nine feature films, including the spy film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(2002), the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March(2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the coming-of-age film The Tender Bar (2021) starring BenAffleck. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for co-producing the political thriller Argo (2012). He made his Broadway debut portraying Edward R. Murrow in the play adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck (2025), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.\n\nClooney 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 served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Divorced from actress Talia Balsam, he has been married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney since 2014, with whom he has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Clooney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027In Love — Producer
• 2026Call My Agent! The Movie — George Clooney
• 2026Furies — Executive Producer
• 2026Henry David Thoreau — Narrator (voice)
• 2025Good Night, and Good Luck — Edward R. Murrow, Writer, Executive Producer, Original Film Writer
• 2025Jay Kelly — Jay Kelly
• 2025My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler — Jay Kelly (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2025Surviving Ohio State — Producer
• 2024IF — Spaceman (voice)
• The Agency — Executive Producer
• 2024Wolfs — Margaret's Man, Producer
• Poker Face — Michael Clayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2023The Boys in the Boat — Director, Producer
• 2023The Flash — Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
• 2022Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Ticket to Paradise — David Cotton, Producer
• 2021The Tender Bar — Director, Producer
• 2020Grizzly II: Revenge — Ron
• Some Good News — Weatherman
• 2020The Art of Political Murder — Executive Producer
• 2020The Midnight Sky — Augustine Lofthouse, Director, Producer
• Trial by Media — Executive Producer, Creator
• Catch-22 — Scheisskopf, Director
• On Becoming a God in Central Florida — Executive Producer
• 2018Ocean's Eight — Producer
• 2017Suburbicon — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2016Hail, Caesar! — Baird Whitlock
• 2016Money Monster — Lee Gates, Producer
• 2015A Very Murray Christmas — George Clooney
• 2015America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Our Brand Is Crisis — Producer
• 2015Tomorrowland — Frank Walker
• 2014The Monuments Men — Lt. Frank Stokes, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2013August: Osage County — Producer
• Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten — Ron (archive footage)
• 2013Gravity — Matt Kowalski
• The Frame — Matt Kowalsky
• 20128 — David Boies
• 2012Argo — Producer
• 2011The Descendants — Matt King
• 2011The Ides of March — Mike Morris, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• Memphis Beat — Producer
• 2010The American — Jack / Edward, Producer
• 2009Fantastic Mr. Fox — Mr. Fox (voice)
• 2009Playground — Executive Producer
• 2009The Informant! — Executive Producer
• 2009The Men Who Stare at Goats — Lyn Cassady, Producer
• 2009Up in the Air — Ryan Bingham
• 2008Burn After Reading — Harry Pfarrer
• 2008Leatherheads — Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly, Director, Producer
• 2007Michael Clayton — Michael Clayton, Executive Producer
• 2007Ocean's Thirteen — Danny Ocean
• 2007Sand and Sorrow — Narrator (voice) / Self
• 2007Wind Chill — Executive Producer
• 2006A Scanner Darkly — Executive Producer
• 2006Pu-239 — Executive Producer
• 2006The Good German — Jake Geismar
• 2005Good Night, and Good Luck. — Fred Friendly, Screenplay, Director
• 2005Rumor Has It... — Executive Producer
• 2005Syriana — Bob Barnes, Executive Producer
• 2005The Big Empty — Executive Producer
• 2005The Jacket — Producer
• Unscripted — Director, Executive Producer
• 2004Criminal — Producer
• 2004Ocean's Twelve — Danny Ocean
• 2003Intolerable Cruelty — Miles
• K Street — Producer, Creator
• 2003Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration
• 2003Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over — Devlin
• 2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — Jim Byrd, Director
• 2002Far from Heaven — Executive Producer
• 2002Insomnia — Executive Producer
• 2002Solaris — Chris Kelvin
• 2002Welcome to Collinwood — Jerzy, Producer
• 2001Ocean's Eleven — Danny Ocean
• 2001Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes — Batman (archive footage)
• 2001Rock Star — Executive Producer
• 2001Spy Kids — Devlin
• 2000Fail Safe — Col. Jack Grady, Executive Producer
• 2000O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Everett
• 2000The Book That Wrote Itself — George Clooney
• 2000The Perfect Storm — Capt. Billy Tyne
• 1999Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
• 1999South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut — Dr. Gouache (voice)
• 1999Three Kings — Archie Gates
• 1998Out of Sight — Jack Foley
• 1998The Thin Red Line — Capt. Charles Bosche
• 1997Batman & Robin — Batman / Bruce Wayne
• South Park — Sparky (voice)
• 1997The Peacemaker — Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
• 1996Curdled — Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
• 1996From Dusk Till Dawn — Seth Gecko
• 1996One Fine Day — Jack Taylor
• ER — Doug Ross
• 1994ER: 24 Hours — Dr. Doug Ross
• Friends — Michael Mitchell
• 1993The Harvest — Lip Syncing Transvestite
• 1993The Magic Bubble — Mac
• 1993Without Warning: Terror in the Towers — Kevin Shea
• Bodies of Evidence — Det. Ryan Walker
• Jack's Place
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Baby Talk — Joe
• 1991Rewrite for Murder — Nick Bianco
• Sunset Beat — Chic Chesbro
• 1989Red Surf — Remar
• Comic Relief
• Murphy Brown
• 1988Return of the Killer Tomatoes! — Matt Stevens
• Roseanne
• Biography — George Clooney
• 1987Return to Horror High — Oliver
• 1986Combat Academy — Maj. Biff Woods
• Throb
• Street Hawk — Kevin Stark
• The Golden Girls — Bobby Hopkins
• Crazy like a Fox — Skip Woods
• E/R — Ace
• Hunter — Matthew Winfield
• Murder, She Wrote — Kip Howard
• 1982And They're Off
• Hotel
• The Facts of Life — George Burnett
• The Adams Chronicles — Henry Clay
• The Oscars — Self, Mr. Fox (voice)
• Calico Joe — Director, Producer
• Echo — Director
• Hot Prospects — Ben Braddock
• Knights of the Kitchen Table — Rick Stepjack
• Ocean's Fourteen — Danny Ocean, Producer, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (84)

• Henry David Thoreau — Self – Narrator (voice)
• Skip Intro — Self - Guest
• Actors on Actors: Broadway — Self
• 2025The Coen Brothers Story — Self
• 2025The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20 — Self
• 2025The Making of Jay Kelly — Self - Jay Kelly
• 2024George Clooney: Leading Man — Self
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
• 2023Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter — Self
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2020A Thousand Cuts — Self
• 2020In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat — Self
• 2019Rose McGowan: Being Brave — Self
• 2018Always at The Carlyle — Self
• 2018Fahrenheit 11/9 — Self (archive footage)
• My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman — Self
• Red Table Talk — Self
• 2018Trump @War — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Architects of Denial — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief — Self
• 2017Plankton Salesmen — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Being George Clooney — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014And the Oscar Goes To... — Self - Interviewee
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2014We Come as Friends — Self
• 2013JFK: One PM Central Standard Time — Self- Narrator
• 2012Anton Corbijn Inside Out — Self
• 2012La Classe américaine — Self
• 2012Radioman — Self
• 2011His Way — Self
• 2009Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story — Self
• C à vous — Self - Guest
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2008DC Insiders Run Amuck — Self
• 2008Finding the Burn — Self / Harry Pfarrer (archive footage)
• 2008His Highness Hollywood — Self
• 2008Welcome Back, George — Self
• 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Self
• 2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self
• 2007Darfur Now — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters — Self
• 2005Live 8 — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2004A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty — Self
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self, Self - Guest
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2002'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con — Self
• 2001America | A Tribute to Heroes — Self
• 2000An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube — Self
• 2000Inside Look: Down from the Mountain — Self
• 2000Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' — Self
• 2000The Coen Brothers — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• 1999Playmate Pajama Party — self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self - Guest
• Ein Herz für Kinder — Self
• 1998Full Tilt Boogie — Self
• 1998Inside 'Out of Sight' — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• The Entertainment Biz — Self
• 1998Waiting for Woody Allen — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Taff — self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• Extra — Self - Guest
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self / Presenter
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• American Masters — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self - Honoree
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee, Self - Audience Member, Self - Nominee / Presenter