George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American film and television actor probably best-known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994-99). He has also appeared in a number of movies such as Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), One Fine Day (1996), Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Intolerable Cruelty , and Ocean's Twelve (2004), along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne and Friends.

He played a handyman on television series The Facts of Life.

He is the son of Cincinnati news anchor and TV host Nick Clooney, a nephew of actress and singer Rosemary Clooney, and a cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer; another cousin, Gabe Ferrer, is married to Debby Boone.

He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris.

External link

• IMDb entry for George Clooney http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000123/