George Clooney
About
Two-time academy award-winner with such style and magnetism that we forgave him for Batman and Robin. George Clooney embodies class and sophistication.
ER
George Clooney shot to fame when he played Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER. For his work on the series, Clooney had two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series.
Movie Roles
While working on ER, George began attracting a variety of leading roles, including the superhero film Batman & Robin and then the crime comedy Out of Sight, in which he first worked with a director who would become a long-time collaborator, Steven Soderbergh.
He also starred in the commercially successful films The Perfect Storm and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for the heist comedy Ocean’s Eleven, a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name.
He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana, in 2005. Then he earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton, the comedy-drama Up in the Air and the drama The Descendants.
Producer
In 2013, Clooney won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Argo. He is also the only person in Academy Award history to be nominated for Oscars in six different categories.
Humanitarian Work
Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch Project. The organization focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities.
In January 2010, George Clooney organized the telethon Hope for Haiti Now, which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.