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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, director and screenwriter, known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994–99) and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema.

Family life

Born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney is the son of Nina Bruce Warren and Cincinnati news anchor and TV host Nick Clooney. His paternal aunt is actress and singer Rosemary Clooney, and the cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer; another cousin, Gabriel Ferrer (married to Debby Boone), is an Episcopal priest. Between 1989 and 1993 he was married to actress Talia Balsam, the daughter of actor Martin Balsam. Clooney is a strong supporter of the Democratic Party and is of mostly Irish American heritage, although he also has some distant German ancestry. He currently has a villa on Lake Como in Italy, where he spends much of his time.

Film career

Clooney got his start in Los Angeles, a young college dropout from Kentucky who spent most of his "struggling actor" years riding to auditions on a bicycle. His first major role was in a short-lived television medical comedy/drama, E/R. Additionally, he played a handyman on the series The Facts of Life. His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Roseanne, playing Roseanne Barr's overbearing boss Booker Brooks. Another early appearance was in 1988's Return of the Killer Tomatoes
. Clooney would achieve stardom when he was selected to play Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC hit drama ER. In 1987 he was also in the film Combat Academy
.

Prior to his success on ER, he befriended another actor named Grant Heslov, a close friend and frequent collaborator with whom Clooney co-wrote Good Night, and Good Luck. Heslov is also the president of Section 8 Entertainment, Clooney's and director Steven Soderbergh's production company. Clooney said in an interview that he was driving an RV through the country with Heslov, (who 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 has hence starred in movies such as From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996), One Fine Day
(1996), Batman & Robin
(1997), Out of Sight
(1998), 3 Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm
(2000), O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000), Ocean's Eleven
(2001), Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Intolerable Cruelty
(2003), and Ocean's Twelve
(2004), along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne and Friends. He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
, an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris.

In 1995, Clooney received a tape version of The Spirit of Christmas, the video greeting card which would inspire South Park. He thought it was so funny that he made copies and sent it around the LA area; Matt Stone and Trey Parker were so thankful for his help that they invited him to play a role in the show, and he ended up voicing Stan Marsh's gay dog Sparky in the episode Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride, a role with no dialogue except normal dog noises. He later appeared in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Despite this history, show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone lampooned Clooney for his outspoken political views in their feature film Team America: World Police
. (However, this was after Clooney said that he would have been offended if he weren't made fun of in the film).

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