George Cloony Study Notes

Biography for
George Clooney
Date of Birth
6 May 1961, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Birth Name
George Timothy Clooney

Nickname
Gorgeous George

Height
5' 11" (1.80 m)

Mini Biography
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster of many years, who hosted a talk show at Cincinnati and often invited George into the studios already at the age of 5. Avoiding competition with his father, he quit his job as broadcast journalist after a short time.

George studied for a few years at Northern Kentucky University. He failed to join the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He came to acting when his cousin, Miguel Ferrer, got him a small part in a feature film. After that, in 1982, he moved to LA and tried for a whole year to get a role while he slept in a friend's closet. His first movie, together with Charlie Sheen, stayed unreleased but got him the producers' attention for later contracts.


Salary
"Sisters" (1991) $40,000 per episode
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) $250,000
One Fine Day (1996) $3,000,000
Batman & Robin (1997) $10,000,000
The Peacemaker (1997) $3,000,000
Out of Sight (1998) $10,000,000
Three Kings (1999) $5,000,000
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) $1,000,000
The Perfect Storm (2000) $8,000,000
Ocean's Eleven (2001) $20,000,000
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) $15,000,000
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) $1
Syriana (2005) $350,000
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) $15,000,000 [continues]

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