George Clooney
It sometimes seems well nigh impossible to make the transition from successful TV actor to film star just ask the cast of Friends. George Clooney, on the other hand, has had no problem.
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His matinee-idol looks, coupled with a quirky sense of humour and an air of genuineness he is one of the nicest movie stars around today look set to ensure that he doesn't suffer from Hollywood's familiar here-today-gone-tomorrow syndrome.
Born in Kentucky on May 6, 1961, George has showbusiness in his blood his father is the former TV talk show host Nick Clooney and he's a nephew of the famous singer Rosemary Clooney. After his cousin Miguel Ferrer helped him land his first feature film role in 1982, George was bitten and moved to LA to study acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Following several years garnering nothing more than walk-on parts in sitcoms, most notably Roseanne, the chisel-jawed star struck pay dirt in 1994 when he was cast by the producers of a medical drama as the commitment-phobic Dr Doug Ross. The series was ER, and a star was born.
For five years George interspersed his highly popular TV role with movie parts, but the big demands of the big screen were becoming more persistent. In 1996 he starred in One Fine Day opposite Michelle Pfeiffer who famously bet him $10,000 that he would become a father one day, against his fervent denials - and From Dusk Till Dawn, which won him rave reviews. He even negotiated a $10-million role, as caped crusader Bruce Wayne in Joel Schumacher's Batman And Robin, a fee which he is said to have repeated for Out Of Sight, in which he starred opposite Jennifer Lopez.
TV wanted him, so did the movies: the silver screen won. In 1999, George walked out of the emergency room for the last time - although he did turn up in the next series in an uncredited, blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. Recent projects such as The Perfect Storm, Three Kings, and O Brother Where Art Thou, for which he won a Golden Globe, are a far cry from his first foray into film, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
He married Talia Balsam in 1989, but the couple were divorced just three years later. Since then he has become one of Hollywood's most wanted bachelors. Despite a two-year live-in relationship with French law student Celine Balitran, whom he met when he walked into the bar where she was waitressing, he has said he will never marry again.
He has since dated Bridget Jones's Diary star Renee Zellwegger and carried on an on-off relationship with British model Lisa Snowdon. But the only one to last an impressive 18 years with the heart-throb was his pot-bellied pig Max who lived with him. George was bereft when the 300Ib pig passed away in December 2006, but he won't be replacing him. "Max covered all my pig needs," he said.
Born in Kentucky on May 6, 1961, George has showbusiness in his blood his father is the former TV talk show host Nick Clooney and he's a nephew of the famous singer Rosemary Clooney. After his cousin Miguel Ferrer helped him land his first feature film role in 1982, George was bitten and moved to LA to study acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Following several years garnering nothing more than walk-on parts in sitcoms, most notably Roseanne, the chisel-jawed star struck pay dirt in 1994 when he was cast by the producers of a medical drama as the commitment-phobic Dr Doug Ross. The series was ER, and a star was born.
For five years George interspersed his highly popular TV role with movie parts, but the big demands of the big screen were becoming more persistent. In 1996 he starred in One Fine Day opposite Michelle Pfeiffer who famously bet him $10,000 that he would become a father one day, against his fervent denials - and From Dusk Till Dawn, which won him rave reviews. He even negotiated a $10-million role, as caped crusader Bruce Wayne in Joel Schumacher's Batman And Robin, a fee which he is said to have repeated for Out Of Sight, in which he starred opposite Jennifer Lopez.
TV wanted him, so did the movies: the silver screen won. In 1999, George walked out of the emergency room for the last time - although he did turn up in the next series in an uncredited, blink-and-you-miss-it cameo. Recent projects such as The Perfect Storm, Three Kings, and O Brother Where Art Thou, for which he won a Golden Globe, are a far cry from his first foray into film, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
He married Talia Balsam in 1989, but the couple were divorced just three years later. Since then he has become one of Hollywood's most wanted bachelors. Despite a two-year live-in relationship with French law student Celine Balitran, whom he met when he walked into the bar where she was waitressing, he has said he will never marry again.
He has since dated Bridget Jones's Diary star Renee Zellwegger and carried on an on-off relationship with British model Lisa Snowdon. But the only one to last an impressive 18 years with the heart-throb was his pot-bellied pig Max who lived with him. George was bereft when the 300Ib pig passed away in December 2006, but he won't be replacing him. "Max covered all my pig needs," he said.
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