Occupation: Actor
Date of Birth: May 6, 1961
Place of Birth: Lexington, Ky., USA
Sign: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aquarius
Relations: Former companion: Céline Balidran; father: Nick Clooney (broadcast journalist); mother: Nina; older sister: Ada; aunt: Rosemary Clooney (jazz singer and occasional guest star on E.R.); ex-wife: Talia Balsam (actress)
Education: Northern Kentucky University

Film and television actor who briefly appeared in several television shows including E/R (1984), The Facts of Life (1985–86), and Roseanne (1988–89) before landing a role on NBC's hit ER (1994–1999). His films include From Dusk Till Dawn (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), Out Of Sight (1998 opposite Jennifer Lopez), One Fine Day (with Michelle Pfeiffer) Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000 both with Mark Wahlberg), Ocean's Eleven (with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts).

Facts about George Clooney:

In Ocean's Eleven, when he joins the teen idols card game, he asks Topher Grace "Isn't it a big move from TV to movies?". George Clooney moved from TV (ER) to movies.

In Out Of Sight (1998), the mug shot of his character Jack Foley (of which Karen, played by Jennifer Lopez, says "He doesn't even look like that") is the mug shot of Clooney's character Seth Gecko from From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).

Practiced his singing for weeks for O Brother, Where Art Thou? , but in the end his singing voice was dubbed.

He is proud of making his directorial debut with new film Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind - but the experience has put him off ever doing it again.

Good friends with actor Mark Wahlberg, with whom he played in Three Kings, The Perfect Storm. Clooney also co-produced Mark Wahlberg's movie Rock Star.

Coincidentally Clooney's first steady TV role was in the medical sitcom E/R back in 1984 that was based in Chicago and co-starred Elliott Gould, Mary McDonnell and Jason Alexander. Ten years later it would take another TV series ER (1994) (also based in Chicago) to finally launch Clooney into the galaxy of super stardom.

He was gab-queen Rosie O'Donnell's very first guest when her TV show debuted.

He was committed to O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) before even reading a script.

His famed Roman haircut was actually an accident. While filming From Dusk Till Dawn he wanted to make his character Seth Gecko look really crazy with a chopped off hairstyle. But the haircut became popular and turned into a positive.

Reportedly got into a fistfight with Three Kings (1999) director David O. Russell on the set. Russell had yelled and derided a few extras out of frustration and Clooney didn't appreciate it. Russell has since said I wouldn't make another George Clooney movie if they paid him $20 million.

Has stated in several interviews that he has suffered from bleeding stomach ulcers, and is still on medication for stomach pain to this day.

George Clooney was reportedly forced to do battle with animal rights activists during the shooting of The Perfect Storm, the disaster-at-sea movie.

George Clooney's ex-lover, Kimberly Russell, has warned his new flame never to ask for marriage or commitment from the Hollywood star - because the relationship will be over in an instant.

He says he will never get married, nor have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman have bet $10,000 each that he will be a father before he turns 40.

He waged war against the paparazzi by boycotting Entertainment Tonight, the sister show of Hard Copy, which had filmed Clooney without his permission.

(1997) He was voted Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine

George Clooney has fired back at critics who accused him of turning his back on the missing millions raised by the American charity telethon.

In 1997 George Clooney injured his lower leg playing basketball, while shooting Batman and Robin. Because of this, he needed to cut the boot off of the Bat-suit in order to wear a cast. You can tell when his leg was injured from his limping while inside the freeze rocket.

Attached to play Artemus Gordon in Wild Wild West (1999), but turned it down reportedly because it was a supporting part.

He also played a U.S. Army Special Forces officer in The Peacemaker (1997, with Nicole Kidman), the same role he has in Three Kings (1999)

He asked to have his character's smoking scenes in Out Of Sight removed, since he had quit only a few years earlier and didn't want to risk getting hooked again.

He had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room during filming Ocean's Eleven (2001).

His friend and stunt double, Brad Martin, didn't get to double for George in Out Of Sight, so George got him the role of the White Boxer.

Personal quotes:

"I'm really white trash."
- George Clooney

"After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy."
- George Clooney

"You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now." 
- George Clooney - US Weekly. Issue 270.

"I came running out of the house naked with my pig,. Max... And my buddy Ben, who was in the guesthouse down below, came running out naked with a gun, because he thought someone was breaking in. So we're naked like this, and my biggest fexar was that we would end up getting killed and they would find two naked guns, a pig and a gun."
[on an earthquake in San Francisco]

"Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties."
- George Clooney

"The director goes, 'Hit me, you pu---. Hit me.' Then he got me by the throat and I went nuts. I had him by the throat. I was going to kill him. Kill him. It was truly, without exception the worst moment of my life." [on director David Russell's tactics while working on Three Kings] 
- Playboy. July 2000.

"They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big f---ing project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given." 
- George Clooney on "Batman & Robin" - Playboy. July 2000.

"I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad." 
- Playboy. July 2000.

"I decided if I walk outside and get hit by a bus, everybody'll say, 'He crammed a load into 34 years.'"
- George Clooney