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GEORGE CLOONEY
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer, and
screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received three Golden Globe Awards and an AcademyAward. Clooney is also noted for his political
activism, and has served as one of the United
Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31,2008.
Though he made his acting debut on television in
1978, Clooney gained fame and recognition by portraying Dr. Douglas "Doug" Ross on the long-
running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999.
While working on ER,he started attracting a var-
iety of leading roles in films including Batman &Robin (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), in which
he first teamed with long-term collaborator
Steven Soderbergh. In 1999 saw the release of Three Kings, a well-received war satire set dur-
ing the Gulf War featuring Clooney in another
lead role. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened withthe 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 asDanny 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), Leather heads (2008), and The Ides of March (2011). He won anAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the Middle East thriller Syriana (2005) and
subsequently fetched Best Actor nominations for such films as Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air
(2009) and The Descendants (2011).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 amember of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Humanitarian work
Clooney in Abéché, Chad, in January 2008 with the UN. Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch
Project, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities,along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub. In February
2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. In January 2010, he
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