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Famous as :

Actor

Birth Name :

George Timothy Clooney

Birth Date :

May 06, 1961

Birth Place :

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Spouse :

Talia Balsam (15-Dec-89 - Sep-93)

Claim to fame :

As Dr. Doug Ross in TV drama "ER" (1994 - 1999)

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together with Charlie Sheen. Though his first film stayed unreleased, still his acting could successfully catch producers' attention who soon got him for some contracts.

The deals preceded George's first steady TV role in the medical sitcom "E/R," which production was based in Chicago, before within the next ten years he's been chosen to play in the popular NBC serial drama, "ER," primarily set in a teaching hospital's emergency room, the fictional County General Hospital based loosely off Cook County General, a real hospital on Division Street in Chicago, Illinois. Besides, he was also popular for playing the main role in several other movies, one of them was "Batman and Robin," a 1997 movie sequel to the 1989 "Batman" movie, "Batman Returns" (1992) and "Batman Forever" (1995) where he portrayed Batman and his co-star, Chris O'Donnell, returning as Robin. Another movie, for which he was well known was the 1998's "Out of Sight" that revolves around the relationship of a serial bank robber Jack Foley, played by George, with a U.S. marshal Karen Sisco, played by Jennifer Lopez, who is forced to share her car trunk during the bank robber's escape from a Florida prison.

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Eleven" (2001) that pictures him as Daniel Ocean who along with his pals plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos: the Bellagio, Mirage and MGM Grand, all of which store their money in a central, hi-tech vault. All three casinos are owned by Terry Benedict, the man currently dating Ocean's ex-wife, Tess Roberts. The robbers foil the elaborate security mechanisms to get to the vault with the casino's money, and escape by disguising themselves as the SWAT team. In early 2004, George went on playing "Ocean's Eleven" sequel entitled "Ocean's Twelve," released in the United States on December 10, 2004 starring in it also Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Besides those famous movies, George had also played in such movies, as "Return of the Killer Tomatoes" (1988); "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996); "One Fine Day" (1996); "Three Kings" (1999); "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000); "The Perfect Storm" (2000); "Welcome to Collinwood" (2002) and "Intolerable Cruelty" (2004). To add his achievement, in 2002 he made his debut as a film director producing "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris.

George once gets married and forms a family with Talia Balsam ...

 
 

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