Born: George Timothy Clooney
May 6, 1961 (age 52)
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation: Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Years active: 1978–present
Spouse(s): Talia Balsam (1989–1993)
Partner(s): Stacy Keibler
(2011–present)
Nick Clooney Parents :
Relatives: Rosemary Clooney
(aunt)
Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer
(cousins

Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (née Warren, 1939–), is a former beauty pageant queen. His father, Nick Clooney, is a former anchorman, as well as a game show and American Movie Classics host. Clooney's ancestry includes Irish, German, and
English. His paternal great-great-grandparents, Nicholas Clooney (of County Kilkenny) and
Bridget Byron, emigrated to the United States from Ireland. His maternal four times greatgrandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister ofNancy Hanks (Nancy Hanks was the mother of President Abraham Lincoln). Clooney has an older sister, Adelia (also known as Ada); his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer
Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer. He is also related to another singer, Debby Boone, who married his cousin Gabriel Ferrer (son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney).
Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He 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, and St. Susanna School in Mason. In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a debilitating condition that partially paralyzes the face. The malady went away within a year. "That was the worst time of my life," he told the Daily Mirror in 2003.
Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has received three
Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor, and two Academy Awards — one for acting and the other for producing. Clooney is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.
George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln
According to the Ancestry.com website, which provides information on relationships and family trees, Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, was half sister of Clooney's fourth great-grandmother,
Mary Ann Sparrow. Hanks and Sparrow shared mother, Lucy Hanks, but had different fathers.
he received two Emmy Award nominations. While working on ER, he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films including Batman & Robin (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), in which he first worked with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh. In 1999 Clooney took the lead role in Three Kings, a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, Ocean's Eleven, the first of a profitable film trilogy, a remake of the film from 1960 with the members of the Rat
Pack with Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean. He made his directorial debut a year later with the
2002 biographical thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Leatherheads (2008), and The Ides of March (2011). He won an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005) and subsequently gained Best Actor nominations for such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the
Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best
Picture for producing the film Argo, alongside Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov. He is the only person to ever be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories.
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In 2005, TV Guide ranked Clooney #1 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" lists.
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Clooney's humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 2004 Tsunami, and 9/11 victims, and creating documentaries such as Sand and Sorrow to raise awareness about international crises.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009
Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 until they divorced in 1993. He has said that he will never marry again. After meeting British model Lisa Snowdon on the set of a Martini advertisement in 2000, he had a five-year on-again, off-again relationship with her. In
June 2007, he started dating reality personality Sarah Larson, but the couple broke up in May
2008. In July 2009, Clooney was in a relationship with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis until they split in June 2011. Since July 2011, Clooney has been dating former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler.
Clooney has also dated actresses Kelly Preston (1987–1989), Renée Zellweger (2001) and Krista
Allen (2002–2008)
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Clooney in January 2012
Clooney is one of three people to have been given the title of "Sexiest Man Alive" twice by People Magazine.
His Parents
ROSEMARY CLOONEY (AUNT )

MIGUEL FERRER (COUSIN)