He is also related to another singer,
Gabriel Ferrer.
From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father's sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favorite.
Clooney began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. Spending part of his childhood in
Ohio, he attended St. Michael's School in
Columbus, St. Susanna School in
Mason, Ohio, and Sir Thomas Rich's Grammar School for Boys, Gloucester, in the United Kingdom. There he developed an interest in theater. His parents eventually moved to
Augusta, Kentucky. He went to
Augusta High School where he was the lead in several plays. Clooney has stated that he earned all A's and a B in school,
[8] and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player.
He had considered a career in Law at this time, but later retracted. He tried out with the
Cincinnati Reds in 1977 to play professional baseball, but was not offered a contract. He did not pass the first round of player cuts.
[9] He attended
Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981 and, very briefly, the
University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either.
[9][10]P
rior to his success on ER, he met Grant Heslov, a later close friend with whom he co-wrote
Good Night, and Good Luck. Heslov was also the president of television at
Section Eight Productions, Clooney and director
Steven Soderbergh's production company. In August 2006, Clooney and Heslov started a new company: Smokehouse Pictures. Clooney said in an interview that he was driving an RV through the country with Heslov, who, at the time, was getting over a broken engagement, when he got a phone call from his agent telling him that NBC just picked up ER for a full season. Clooney said, "I think I just got my career."
Clooney starred in movies while appearing in ER, his first major Hollywood role being
From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by
Robert Rodriguez. He followed its success with
One Fine Day with
Michelle Pfeiffer and
The Peacemaker with
Nicole Kidman, the latter being the initial feature length release from
Dreamworks SKG studio. Clooney was then cast as the new
Batman[12] (succeeding
Val Kilmer, who in turn, had succeeded
Michael Keaton) in
Batman & Robin, however the film was critically panned for its campy style. In 1998, he starred in
Out of Sight, opposite
Jennifer Lopez. This was the first of many collaborations with director
Steven Soderbergh. He also starred in
Three Kings
during the last weeks of his contract with ER.
In 1999, George Clooney left the cast of ER to pursue his film career full-time. He mentioned a few times that he would like to do a few cameos; to date, he has only done one. It was confirmed in January 2009 that Clooney would return as Dr. Doug Ross in one episode during ER's fifteenth and final season alongside Julianna Margulies.
[13]After leaving ER, George Clooney starred in major
Hollywood successes, such as
The Perfect Storm and
O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 2001, he teamed up with Soderbergh again for
Ocean's Eleven, a
remake of the 1960s
Rat Pack film
of the same name. To this day, it remains Clooney's most commercially successful movie, earning approximately US$444,200,000 worldwide. The film spawned two sequels starring Clooney,
Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and
Ocean's Thirteen in 2007. In 2001, Clooney founded the production studio Section Eight with Steven Soderbergh. Clooney is generally considered
Chief Actor.
H
e made his
directorial debut in the 2002 film
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, an adaptation of the autobiography of
TV producer Chuck Barris. Though the movie didn't do well at the
box office, Clooney's direction was praised among critics and audiences alike.
In 2005, Clooney starred in
Syriana, which was based loosely on former
Central Intelligence Agency agent
Robert Baer and his memoirs of being an agent in the
Middle East. The same year he directed, produced, and starred in
Good Night, and Good Luck, a film about 1950s television journalist
Edward R. Murrow's famous war of words with Senator
Joseph McCarthy. Both films received critical acclaim and decent box-office returns despite being in limited release. At the 2006 Academy Awards, Clooney was nominated for
Best Director and
Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as
Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another in the same year. He would go on to win for his role in Syriana. More recently, he appeared in
The Good German, a
film-noir directed by Soderbergh. The film is set in post-
World War II Germany.
Clooney is one of only two people to have been given the title of "
Sexiest Man Alive" twice by
People Magazine, first in 1997 and again in 2006.
[14] Clooney also received the
American Cinematheque Award in October 2006, an award that honors an artist in the entertainment industry who has made "a significant contribution to the art of motion pictures".
[15] On January 22, 2008, Clooney was nominated for Best Actor for his role in
Michael Clayton, but lost to
Daniel Day-Lewis for
There Will Be Blood.
Clooney is self-deprecating in interviews, telling
STV in April 2008 that
Leatherheads, one of his lightest movies, is a "cry for peace." In the same interview, when asked about reconciling George Clooney the actor and George Clooney the director, he said "there's a lot of ego there... so I just take it out on the actors."
[16]Clooney is represented by
Bryan Lourd, Co-Chairman of
Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
On July 8, 2005, news reports said that Clooney would be working with
Cindy Crawford's husband
Rande Gerber to design and build a new
casino hotel in
Las Vegas. On August 29, the same year, Clooney officially announced his involvement with the
Las Ramblas Resort project.
[17] However, the project never came to fruition, and the property on which the resort was to be built was sold in June 2006.
After serving as pitchman outside the US for products like
Fiat and
Martini vermouth, Clooney lent his voice to a series of
Budweiser ads beginning in 2005 (which were still running as of September 2007).[
citation needed] In September 2007, Clooney defended his work when asked by an Italian journalist how he reconciled working in a
Nestle advertisement for
Nespresso with his criticism of multinational companies.
[18]A
fter the success of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney said, he plans to devote more of his energy to directing. He has said that the directing industry is "a great industry to grow old in." Clooney directed the film
Leatherheads, in which he also stars.
Clooney is creating and producing a television series for
Showtime titled The Fall of Bob. The Fall of Bob is a half-hour, single-camera black comedy-drama about a man who is committing suicide while a lengthy flashback occurs of what happened before his death.
Clooney is currently working on his next project
The Men Who Stare At Goats which is being directed by his best pal Grant Heslov and is set for release in 2010. Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey have also signed on to star. Another project Clooney has signed on for is
Up in the Air which is set for a 2009 release. It is being directed by
Juno director
Jason Reitman.
In July 2008, George Clooney was declared the worst Batman portrayed onscreen. "Batman should be obsessed and blindered […] but Clooney is all cool, ironic detachment and self-awareness." No comment has been heard from the actor.
[19]Clooney has been married once, to actress
Talia Balsam, from 1989 to 1993.
He says he will never get married again nor have any children, but
Michelle Pfeiffer and
Nicole Kidman each bet him $10,000 that he would be a father before he turned 40. When he reached that age a bachelor, they each sent him a check; he returned them, betting
double or nothing that he would remain childless until 50.
C
looney also had a famous on/off five year relationship with
English model and
TV presenter Lisa Snowdon. The pair met while shooting an advert for
Martini. However, on May 28, 2008, it was reported that they had allegedly split .
Clooney's father,
Nick Clooney, a journalist, is noted for saying about himself:
“
I spent the first part of my life being referred to as
Rosemary Clooney’s brother, and now I am spending the last part of my life being referred to as George Clooney’s dad.
”
In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a debilitating condition that partially paralyzes the face. While suffering from the malady—it went away within a year—his left eye closed and he was unable to eat or drink properly, earning the nickname Frankenstein. "That was the worst time of my life," he told the Mirror in 2003. "You know how cruel kids can be. I was mocked and taunted, but the experience made me stronger." In 2004, Clooney injured himself on Syriana's set during a
torture scene. He had some excruciating headaches and suffered short term memory loss. It took a few weeks for his doctors to find the reasons for his health problems. During The Good German's promotion (two years afterwards), he revealed that he still had to wear a back brace due to this injury.
[20]On September 21, 2007, Clooney and a girlfriend were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken,
New Jersey. Clooney's motorcycle was hit by a car. The driver of the car reported that Clooney attempted to pass on the right,
[21] while Clooney stated that the driver signaled left and then decided to make an abrupt right turn and clipped the motorcycle. Clooney suffered a broken rib and
road rash; he was treated and released from the
Palisades Medical Center in
North Bergen, New Jersey.
[22] On October 9, 2007, more than two dozen hospital staff members were suspended without pay for looking at Clooney's medical records in violation of federal law.
[23] Clooney himself quickly issued a statement on the hospital records matter, saying no one should be punished. He said "This is the first I've heard of it. And while I very much believe in a patient's
right to privacy, I would hope that this could be settled without suspending medical workers."
[24]Clooney is a self-described political
liberal. Speaking about the
Iraq war: "You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people seeking revenge. These days it only matters who's in charge. Right now that's us—for a while at least. Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and
suicide attacks because they have no other way to win.... I believe (
Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore."
[28]
Clooney supported
Barack Obama for the
United States 2008 presidential election.
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Who is Rhona Mitra? Mitra is a British actress and model.Mitra was born 9 August, 1976 in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Nora and Antony Mitra, who is a cosmetic surgeon. She has an older and younger brother.[1] Her father is of Indian descent while her mother is Irish.[2] In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced and she was sent to boarding school. Several years passed at two different all-girls schools, including Roedean, but Mitra claims she was eventually expelled from both of them.
Scott Wolf's illicit love interest on Party of Five. In 2000, Mitra had a small, non-speaking part as a victim of the title role villain in the film Hollow Man. She appeared in the final season of The Practice as 
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