Biographie

Often plays scoundrels that are likable and have redeeming qualities

Silver/grey hair

Smooth, resonant voice

Often works with Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Often works with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon

During the 1990s, Clooney often publicly asserted that he would never get remarried or have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman both bet $10,000 each that he would be a father before he turned 40. They were both wrong, and each sent him a check. He returned the money, betting double or nothing that he wouldn't have kids by age 50. At age 53, he broke his vows to never marry again when he wed human rights lawyer Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin) in 2014. In early 2017, news broke that the couple were pregnant with twins.

Has been friends with Sandra Bullock for around 25 years. They appear in a movie together for the first time in Gravité (2013).

Suffers from a form of malaria that surfaces from time to time; he has to live with this for the rest of his life.

A renowned practical joker, of whom Brad Pitt is often a target, George Clooney revealed on The Graham Norton Show, that he had replaced the license plate frame on Brad Pitt's car with one that said, "Fuck Cops". Of course, Pitt was pulled over by the LAPD.

During the 2012 Newsweek Magazine Oscar roundtable, Clooney told a story about working for the women's shoe department of a Cincinnati, Ohio, department store in 1979. He said that it was fashionable at that time for some women to have their fourth toe surgically removed so that they could more easily fit into tight pumps and heels. He came to know which women had had this procedure done, and he always tried to pass those customers of onto his co-workers, since he found the sight of the deliberately missing toe so disturbing.

[discussing casting choices Mel Gibson and Nicolas Cage for Trois Rois (1999) before he had signed] Luckily, both those guys were tied and gagged in my apartment, and that was a problem for the casting department.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

[on the fact he had nothing to do with the breakup of Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt] I was too busy breaking up Tom and Nicole's marriage.

[speaking about the 2003 start to the Iraq war] You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. These days it only matters who's in charge. Right now that's us -for a while, at least. Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. . . . I believe [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Money Monster (2016) - $20,000,000

Ave César! (2016) - $10,000,000

Le monde de demain (2015) - $25,000,000

Les Monuments Men (2014) - $2,000,000

Gravité (2013) - $34,000,000 (includes % of total revenue)