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George Clooney

George Clooney is Hollywood's last old-school movie star, an Oscar-winning actor, director, and activist who became a genuine billionaire (briefly) and remains one of the most searched celebrities on the planet.

By · datastats · Updated June 15, 2026
George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. He spent years grinding through TV bit parts before landing the role of Dr. Doug Ross on ER in 1994, the role that made him a household name and launched one of Hollywood’s most durable A-list careers.

From ER he pivoted to blockbuster films, headlining the Ocean’s franchise, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, and Gravity, while also stepping behind the camera to direct critically praised films like Good Night, and Good Luck and The Ides of March. He has won two Academy Awards, one for acting (Syriana, 2006) and one as a producer (Argo, 2013).

Beyond acting, Clooney built a business empire. He co-founded Casamigos Tequila in 2013 with Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman; in 2017, spirits giant Diageo acquired it for up to $1 billion, making the sale one of the most talked-about celebrity business exits in history.

He is also a prominent political activist, particularly on the Darfur crisis and on broader human-rights issues. That combination of glamour, talent, business savvy, and outspokenness keeps him perpetually in the public conversation, and in search engines.

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Clooney owns multiple properties, but his best-documented primary base is his estate in Laglio, on Lake Como in northern Italy, a converted 18th-century villa called Villa Oleandra that he purchased in 2002 and has renovated extensively. He also maintains residences in Los Angeles (a Studio City home he has owned for decades) and has previously been linked to properties in England. Lake Como is the home he talks about most publicly.

George Clooney is American. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and holds U.S. citizenship. Despite spending significant time in Europe, especially at his Lake Como villa, he has never taken on dual citizenship publicly.

George Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, which makes him 63 years old as of mid-2025. He turns 64 in May 2025.

George Clooney is widely reported to stand at 5 feet 11 inches (approximately 180 cm). He has the proportions that read as taller on screen, which is part of the classic leading-man illusion.

By most credible estimates, George Clooney is significantly richer. His Casamigos Tequila sale alone brought in a reported $233 million upfront (with up to $1 billion in earnouts), catapulting his wealth well above what acting fees alone could deliver. Brad Pitt is wealthy by any standard, his film earnings and his Château Miraval wine venture are both substantial, but his publicly reported net worth estimates consistently land below Clooney's. That said, celebrity net-worth figures from third-party sites are estimates, not audited accounts.

Clooney and actress Talia Balsam married in 1989 and divorced in 1993; the split has been attributed in interviews to the general pressures of two acting careers and Clooney's own admission that he was not ready for the commitments of marriage at that stage of his life. He has spoken publicly about feeling he was at fault, saying he wasn't a good enough husband. Neither party has detailed a single dramatic reason, it reads as a case of a young marriage that couldn't survive early Hollywood ambition and incompatibility.

George Clooney is married to Amal Alamuddin Clooney, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer and barrister. They married on September 27, 2014, in Venice, Italy, and together have twins, a son, Alexander, and a daughter, Ella, born in June 2017.

His wife is Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin), born in Beirut in 1978 and raised in England. She is one of the world's most high-profile human rights lawyers, having worked on cases involving the International Criminal Court and representing clients such as WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in extradition proceedings. She is as famous in her own professional sphere as her husband is in Hollywood.

His first wife was Talia Balsam, an American actress perhaps best known for her role in *Mad Men*. They were married from 1989 to 1993. Balsam later married actor John Slattery, her *Mad Men* co-star.

Various financial outlets estimate Clooney's net worth at somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion, with the Casamigos deal being the single biggest driver of that wealth. It is crucial to note that these are third-party estimates, Clooney has not disclosed his finances publicly, so treat any precise number as an informed approximation, not a certified figure.

Her name is Amal Clooney, born Amal Alamuddin on February 3, 1978, in Beirut, Lebanon. She kept both surnames professionally and is widely referred to as Amal Clooney in media coverage.

His legal birth name is George Timothy Clooney, there is no stage name at play here. Unlike many Hollywood actors, he never needed one; the name he was born with turned out to be perfectly suited to a marquee.

He has been married twice. First to Talia Balsam, from 1989 to 1993. Then to Amal Alamuddin, in a ceremony held on September 27, 2014, at the Aman Canal Grande hotel in Venice, Italy. The Venice wedding was one of the most covered celebrity events of that decade.

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to England with her family as a child. She was raised in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and holds British citizenship. She studied at Oxford (St Hugh's College) and then at New York University School of Law.

They met in early 2013 when a mutual friend introduced Amal to Clooney at his Lake Como villa. What started as a professional acquaintance (she was reportedly there partly to discuss a legal matter) turned into a romance. By October 2013, they were publicly confirmed as a couple; Clooney proposed in April 2014, and they married that September. He has said in interviews it was the first time he felt compelled to abandon his long-stated position that he would never remarry.

Yes, as of 2025, George Clooney and Amal Clooney are still married. There is no credible reporting of a separation or divorce. They married in September 2014 and have twin children together.

Yes, George Clooney is married to Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin). They wed in Venice on September 27, 2014, and have twins born in 2017. It is his second marriage.

This is widely reported as stemming from a long-running feud that became public in the mid-2000s. Crowe reportedly sent Clooney a hostile fax accusing him of scuppering a potential project, and Clooney, by his own account in interviews, found the behavior sufficiently unprofessional that he decided working together wasn't worth the trouble. Clooney has spoken about it with characteristic dry wit rather than venom, but the mutual coolness has been consistent enough over the years to be considered a firmly documented Hollywood rift rather than tabloid invention.

Brad Pitt was not publicly listed among the guests at the 2014 Venice wedding, though the event was famously intimate and selective. No confirmed, on-the-record explanation has ever been given by either party. Speculation in celebrity media ranged from scheduling conflicts to the deliberately small guest list. Without a verified statement from Pitt or Clooney, any specific reason remains unconfirmed, so take whatever narrative you've read elsewhere with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Not quite, or at least, not clearly and permanently so. The Casamigos sale was structured as up to $1 billion, but only $700 million was guaranteed upfront (with the rest tied to performance earnouts over time), and taxes on a deal that size are enormous. Most credible estimates place his net worth well below the $1 billion threshold, though in the high hundreds of millions. He is extraordinarily wealthy, but calling him a confirmed billionaire is a stretch the facts don't fully support.

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