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George Clooney
Actor, producer, director George Clooney is currently starring in Joel and Ethan
Coen's "Intolerable Cruelty." He also recently directed and starred in "Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind" (Miramax,) for which he won the Special Achievement in Film
award from the National Board of Review in his directorial debut.
One of Hollywood's biggest box-office draws, Clooney starred in the Warner Bros.
blockbuster hits "Ocean's Eleven" and in "The Perfect Storm." He also starred in
the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" , and won the 2000 Golden Globe
Award as Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Clooney earned critical acclaim in the award-winning drama "Three Kings" (Warner
Bros.) and in the Oscar-nominated "Out of Sight" (Universal). His other feature film
credits include starring roles in "Solaris" (FOX), "The Peacemaker" (DreamWorks),
"Batman & Robin" (Warner Bros.), "One Fine Day" (20th Century Fox) and "From
Dusk Till Dawn" (Miramax).
He has starred in several television series, but is best known to TV audiences for
his five years on the hit NBC drama "ER." His portrayal of Dr. Douglas Ross
earned him Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, People's Choice and Emmy
nominations.
Clooney is partnered with Steven Soderbergh in the film and television production
company Section Eight. They produced the dark comedy "Welcome to Collinwood"
(Warner Bros.). (Clooney also had a cameo role.) He was also an executive
producer of two critically acclaimed Section Eight films, Warner Bros.' "Insomnia"
and Focus Features' "Far from Heaven." Section Eight also produced
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "Full Frontal" and "Ocean's Eleven."
Clooney was executive producer and co-star of the live television broadcast of "Fail
Safe," developed through his Maysville Pictures. "Fail Safe" was nominated for a
2000 Golden Globe Award as Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for
Television. The Emmy Award-winning telefilm was based on the early 1960s novel
of the same name.
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