George Clooney

Son of a talk show host (and cousin of Miguel Ferrer), George Clooney made appearances on his father's shows from an early age. Wishing to follow in his footsteps, he began by studying journalism. Excellent baseball player , he also plans a time to become professional, but this hope is disappointed, the team he dreamed of integrating not having selected him.

Clooney then turned to the 7th art, but his debut was placed under the sign of the Z series, with films with such eloquent titles as Return to horror high (his first appearance on the screen in 1987) or The Return of the tomatoes. killers in 1988. However, his performances aroused the interest of television producers who entrusted him with the role of a pediatrician in a new series: Urgences. Clooney akaDoug Ross, wreaks havoc in the cottages, which allows him to make a new start in cinema - he will not leave the series until 1999. In 1996, he is offered his first major role, that of a criminal, by the chic and crazy Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino tandem (A night in hell). Chosen by the Warner to play the bat man in Batman & Robin (1997), he is as comfortable in the romantic comedy (A beautiful day) as in the action film (The Peacekeeper).

In 1998, his composition as a gentlemanburglar in Out of reach is unanimous, but this film especially marks his meeting with the filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, with whom he creates the production company Section Eight in 2000 - he will remain associated there until 2006. Clooney becomes his actor fetish, both on mainstream films (Ocean's eleven and its sequels, Twelve and 13) as on a project as daring as the remake of Solaris in 2002. If he does not disdain the great spectacle (In full storm), the seducer with graying temples, seen in Malick (The Red Line), more readily participates in iconoclastic works, such as The Kings of the Desert in 1999, or the acid comedies of the Coen brothers (the O'Brother odyssey, with at the end of the journey a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 2001, and Intolerable Cruelty).

Star of the small screen having acquired the status of movie star, George Clooney launched a new challenge in 2002 by going behind the camera with Confessions of a dangerous mind, the first very noticed opus which paints the portrait of a TV host who would have worked for the CIA. In 2005, he signed his second film, covered with prizes in Venice, Good Night, and Good Luck., A dive into McCarthyist America of the 1950s. A committed citizen, he plays in films that tackle topical themes: American oil interests (Syriana, with an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 2006) or the lackluster practices of multinationals (Michael Clayton, which earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in 2008) . However, he does not refuse glamor or entertainment,

In 2010, he hit the screen in the romantic comedy In the Air and in the absurd The Goats of the Pentagone. He also lends his voice to one of the characters in his friend Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox before playing a hitman under pressure in Anton Corbijn's The American. In 2012, his performance as a father whose life was turned upside down when his wife fell into a coma in The Descendants by Alexander Payne earned him a new Oscar nomination for best actor. 

He did not forget the directing however and signed The Steps of Power in 2010, nominated for four Golden Globes (including the most prestigious: best film, director and actor). In 2014, he returned to the camera for his most ambitious film: Monuments Men. This is the biggest production in which George Clooney has ever been involved both in front of and behind the camera. He even gave a small role to his father Nick, alongside a prestigious cast made up of, among others, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin and John Goodman with whom he had not played since O'Brother. But that is unfortunately not enough: the film is a commercial and critical failure.

2013 sees him go deeper into space with Gravity, alongside Sandra Bullock. Although he only has a supporting role in Alfonso Cuaron's work, he is part of a major sci-fi film that sets a date in special effects and offers an immersive experience rarely seen in the film industry. cinema. At ease in this genre, he continues with In pursuit of tomorrow, inspired by the Tomorrowland attraction of Disney parks and directed by Brad Bird, to whom we owe The Incredibles. 

In 2016, he surrounded himself with familiar faces when he met for the 4th time Julia Roberts in the thriller Money Monster by actress / director Jodie Foster, then the Coen brothers with the police comedy Avé, César !. The famous duo are never far away as they co-sign the screenplay for Welcome to Suburbicon the following year, George Clooney's 6th production. For the first time, the actor / director is content to stay behind the camera and plunges his sidekick Matt Damon in an apparently peaceful American suburb of the 1960s but whose varnish will not take long to crack.