George Clooney - Actor

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

Clooney has balanced his cinematic performances in big-budget blockbusters with more modestly budgeted films on serious topics and more commercially risky projects, while expanding his prominence as a movie producer.

Early Life
Clooney, an Irish American, was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (Warren), was a former pageant queen while his father, Nick Clooney, was a journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky. Clooney has a sister, Ada, and is the nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer, as well as the cousin of their children, among them actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer. He is also the cousin-in-law of another singer Debby Boone, who married Jose's son. From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father's sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favourite. Clooney briefly attended Ohio's William Mason High School but graduated from Kentucky's Augusta High School in 1979. He was a poor student. George did excel in athletics; baseball in particular. He was invited to try out for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but was not offered a contract.

He briefly attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979-1981, but did not graduate, earning no more than freshman-level credits. He also very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati, but again did not graduate.