George Clooney
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Series
Friends
Michael Mitchell
1994
Series
South Park
Sparky (voice)
1997
Series
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Series
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Audience Member
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Series
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Self
2014
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Kip Howard
1984
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Series
ER
Doug Ross
1994
Series
Leute heute
Self
1997
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
Murphy Brown
1988
Series
The Golden Girls
Bobby Hopkins
1985
Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Series
The Facts of Life
George Burnett
1979
Series
Hunter
Matthew Winfield
1984
Series
American Masters
Self
1986
Series
Taff
self
1997
Series
Parkinson
Self
1998
Series
Hotel
1982
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Series
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self / Presenter
1992
Film
Ocean's Eleven
Danny Ocean
2001
Series
Poker Face
Michael Clayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Series
C à vous
Self - Guest
2009
Film
The Flash
Bruce Wayne (uncredited)
2023
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Oscars
Mr. Fox (voice)
1953
Series
Today
Self
1952
Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox (voice)
2009
Series
Biography
George Clooney
1987
Series
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Self - Guest
1999
Film
From Dusk Till Dawn
Seth Gecko
1996
Film
The Thin Red Line
Capt. Charles Bosche
1998
Series
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self - Honoree
1978
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Film
Ocean's Twelve
Danny Ocean
2004
Film
Tomorrowland
Frank Walker
2015
Series
Crazy like a Fox
Skip Woods
1984
Series
Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten
Ron (archive footage)
2013
Film
Batman & Robin
Batman / Bruce Wayne
1997
Series
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self
2023
Film
Ocean's Thirteen
Danny Ocean
2007
Film
IF
Spaceman (voice)
2024
Series
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Film
Burn After Reading
Harry Pfarrer
2008
Film
Gravity
Matt Kowalski
2013
Film
The Perfect Storm
Capt. Billy Tyne
2000
Series
Red Table Talk
Self
2018
Series
Catch-22
Scheisskopf
2019
Film
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Devlin
2003
Series
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Self
2022
Film
Ticket to Paradise
David Cotton
2022
Series
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Self
2018
Film
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Everett
2000
Film
Spy Kids
Devlin
2001
Film
Wolfs
Margaret's Man
2024
Film
The Ides of March
Mike Morris
2011
Film
The Descendants
Matt King
2011
Film
Intolerable Cruelty
Miles
2003
Film
The Monuments Men
Lt. Frank Stokes
2014
Film
The Midnight Sky
Augustine Lofthouse
2020
Series
Extra
Self - Guest
1994
Film
Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham
2009
Film
Hail, Caesar!
Baird Whitlock
2016
Series
Street Hawk
Kevin Stark
1985
Film
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Dr. Gouache (voice)
1999
The Entertainment Biz
Self
1998
Film
The Peacemaker
Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe
1997
Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Film
Syriana
Bob Barnes
2005
Film
Jay Kelly
Jay Kelly
2025
Film
Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton
2007
Series
Roseanne
1988
Film
Out of Sight
Jack Foley
1998
Series
E/R
Ace
1984
Series
The Frame
Matt Kowalsky
2013
Film
The American
Jack / Edward
2010
Series
Some Good News
Weatherman
2020
Series
Bodies of Evidence
Det. Ryan Walker
1992
Film
Money Monster
Lee Gates
2016
Film
Solaris
Chris Kelvin
2002
Film
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Jim Byrd
2002
Film
Three Kings
Archie Gates
1999
Film
The Good German
Jake Geismar
2006
Film
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Fred Friendly
2005
Film
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Lyn Cassady
2009
Series
Jack's Place
1992
Series
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
1998
Series
The Adams Chronicles
Henry Clay
1976
Film
Leatherheads
Jimmy 'Dodge' Connelly
2008
Series
Skip Intro
Self - Guest
2026
Film
One Fine Day
Jack Taylor
1996
Film
Welcome to Collinwood
Jerzy
2002
Actors on Actors: Broadway
Self
2025
Comic Relief
1988
Film
Fahrenheit 11/9
Self (archive footage)
2018
Throb
1986
Film
Henry David Thoreau
Narrator (voice)
2026
Film
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
2006
Film
Grizzly II: Revenge
Ron
2020
Film
Radioman
Self
2012
Film
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20
Self
2025
Film
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Self
2022
Film
Live 8
Self
2005
Film
America | A Tribute to Heroes
Self
2001
Film
The Coen Brothers Story
Self
2025
Film
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
2008
Film
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Matt Stevens
1988
Film
Fail Safe
Col. Jack Grady
2000
Series
Henry David Thoreau
Self – Narrator (voice)
2026
Film
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Self
2007
Film
Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
Film
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Ocean's Fourteen
Danny Ocean
Film
Return to Horror High
Oliver
1987
Film
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Batman (archive footage)
2001
Film
A Very Murray Christmas
George Clooney
2015
Film
Always at The Carlyle
Self
2018
Film
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999
Film
Good Night, and Good Luck
Edward R. Murrow
2025
Film
La Classe américaine
Self
2012
Film
His Way
Self
2011
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Magic Bubble
Mac
1993
Film
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self - Interviewee
2014
Film
Architects of Denial
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Self
2016
Film
Full Tilt Boogie
Self
1998
Film
Combat Academy
Maj. Biff Woods
1986
Film
8
David Boies
2012
Film
The Coen Brothers
Self
2000
Film
The Making of Jay Kelly
Self - Jay Kelly
2025
Film
Curdled
Seth Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
1996
Film
ER: 24 Hours
Dr. Doug Ross
1994
Series
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
In Love
2027
Film
In The Tracks Of - Alexandre Desplat
Self
2020
Film
His Highness Hollywood
Self
2008
Film
Screaming Soup Presents: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Red Surf
Remar
1989
Film
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self
2000
Film
We Come as Friends
Self
2014
Series
Sunset Beat
Chic Chesbro
1990
'Ocean's Eleven': The Look of the Con
Self
2002
Film
The Book That Wrote Itself
George Clooney
2000
Film
Rewrite for Murder
Nick Bianco
1991
Film
And They're Off
1982
Film
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
Kevin Shea
1993
Knights of the Kitchen Table
Rick Stepjack
Film
A Thousand Cuts
Self
2020
Hot Prospects
Ben Braddock
Film
Trump @War
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Sand and Sorrow
Narrator (voice) / Self
2007
Film
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler
Jay Kelly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Film
Hand In Hand: A Benefit For Hurricane Relief
Self
2017
Film
Call My Agent! The Movie
George Clooney
2026
Film
The Harvest
Lip Syncing Transvestite
1993
Film
Playmate Pajama Party
self
1999
Inside 'Out of Sight'
Self
1998
A Look Inside 'Intolerable Cruelty
Self
2004
Film
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Narrator (voice)
2022
Finding the Burn
Self / Harry Pfarrer (archive footage)
2008
Film
America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis
Narrator (voice)
2015
Film
Anton Corbijn Inside Out
Self
2012
DC Insiders Run Amuck
Self
2008
Film
Waiting for Woody Allen
Self
1998
Film
Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
Self
2009
Film
Rose McGowan: Being Brave
Self
2019
Film
JFK: One PM Central Standard Time
Self- Narrator
2013
Film
Darfur Now
Self
2007
Welcome Back, George
Self
2008
Inside Look: Down from the Mountain
Self
2000
Film
George Clooney: Leading Man
Self
2024
Series
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Film
An Intimate Look Inside the Acting Process with Ice Cube
Self
2000
Film
Being George Clooney
Self (archive footage)
2016
Series
Baby Talk
Joe
1991