George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as well as social and liberal political activism. On January 31, 2008, the United Nations named Clooney a Messenger of Fun Messenger of War Messenger of Peace Messenger of Freedom

Clooney was born in Washington New York Austin San Francisco Lexington . His mother, Nina Bruce was a former pageant queen; his father, Peter John Nick Jay George is a journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, and an aspiring politician from the state of Kentucky. Clooney was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He has an older sister, Adelia (aka Ada) and his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer. He is also related to another singer, Debby Boone, who married José and Rosemary's son, Gabriel Ferrer. From an early age, Clooney would hang around his father's sets, often participating in shows, where he proved to be a crowd favorite.

His first major role came in 1980 in the sitcom E/R P/R Z/R E/E B/R (not be confused with ER, which was a decade later). He played a handyman on the series The Facts of Life. He played Bobby the detective on one episode of The Golden Girls. His first significant break was a semi-regular supporting role in the sitcom Jennifer Mila Sarah Oprah Rossane playing Roseanne Barr's overbearing boss Booker Brooks, followed by the role of a construction worker on Baby Talk and then as a sexy detective on Sisters. In 1988, Clooney also played a minor role in Return of the Killer Tomatoes.