George Clooney

Every decade or so comes an actor that wows the audience with his genius acting skills and role choices that make him remembered for ages. George Clooney is considered one of those actors who is known for his continuous success on the big screen.

The movie sensation was born in a family of talented individuals where his father was an anchorman, and his mother was a beauty queen as well as a city councilwoman. George Timothy Clooney was born in 1961, Lexington, Kentucky, and has been making his hometown proud ever since.

Even though George Clooney is now known for his famous roles on the screen and remarkable work in Hollywood, whether it is in acting, producing, or screenwriting, he initially wanted to be an athlete at a young age. He began training baseball and basketball when he was a kid, and when he was in high school, he even tried out for the Reds but was never offered a contract.

Clooney was not really interested in education. He spent some time at the Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati but never finished his education at either of them.

The American actor started his professional screen career at a young age, where he took on an extra role at the TV series Centennial in 1978. He then moved on to play relatively small roles in different TV series until he managed to make a breakthrough with the American show, ER, where he played Dr. Doug Ross.

The show was packed with major Hollywood stars including, Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, and Julianna Margulies, which helped accelerate his career and took Clooney to the next level. Clooney then moved on to make even more success in the new century by taking on a lead role in what would soon after be recognized as his most successful movie ever, Ocean’s Eleven.

The actor’s portrayal of the lead character in this film was so successful that it inspired the creation of the Ocean’s trilogy with Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen coming out consecutively in the years that followed. Clooney appeared in numerous drama and comedy films in the years that followed and bagged himself three Golden Globes as well as two Academy awards throughout his successful career journey.

Although he only won two Oscars so far, he was the first actor to ever be nominated in six different academy categories for his various roles.

The star has always been known to give his all to each role he plays that during the filming of Syriana, he refused to let a body double perform a dangerous stunt in his place, and he chose to do it himself, which resulted in him suffering from a really bad spinal injury that nearly killed him right then and there.

It took him months in the hospital and rehabilitation to fully recover, and it was a period that Clooney described as one of the darkest in his life. He even said he had suicidal thoughts during that period but managed to overcome that dark period with the support of his loved ones and the care of the professionals around him.