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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting and the other for producing. Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ''ER'' from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. While working on ''ER'', he began attracting a variety of leading roles in films, including the superhero film ''Batman & Robin'' (1997) and the crime comedy ''Out of Sight'' (1998), in which he first worked with director Steven Soderbergh, who would become a long-time collaborator. In 1999, he took the lead role in ''Three Kings'', a well-received war satire set during the Gulf War. In 2001, Clooney's fame widened with the release of his biggest commercial success, the heist comedy ''Ocean's Eleven'', the first of the film trilogy, a remake of the 1960 film with Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean. He made his directorial debut a year later with the biographical spy comedy ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'', and has since directed the historical drama ''Good Night, and Good Luck'' (2005), the sports comedy ''Leatherheads'' (2008), the political drama ''The Ides of March'' (2011), and the war film ''The Monuments Men'' (2014). Clooney won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller ''Syriana'' (2005), and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller ''Michael Clayton'' (2007) and the comedy-dramas ''Up in the Air'' (2009) and ''The Descendants'' (2011). In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller ''Argo''. He is the only person who has been nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. In 2009, Clooney was included in ''Time'' annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World". He is also noted for his political activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since January 31, 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clooney PSA Announcement )〕 His humanitarian work includes his advocacy of finding a resolution for the Darfur conflict, raising funds for the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Armenian Genocide recognition, 2004 Tsunami, and 9/11 victims, and creating documentaries such as ''Sand and Sorrow'' to raise awareness about international crises. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership Roster )〕 ==Early life== Clooney was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Nina Bruce (''née'' Warren; born 1939), was a beauty queen and city councilwoman. His father, Nick Clooney (born 1934), is a former anchorman and game show host who hosted AMC for five years in the late 1990s. Clooney has Irish, German, and English ancestry. His maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Lincoln, mother of President Abraham Lincoln. Clooney has an older sister named Adelia (known as Ada). His aunt was the famed cabaret singer and actress Rosemary Clooney. Through Rosemary, his cousins include actors Miguel Ferrer, Rafael Ferrer, and Gabriel Ferrer, who is married to singer Debby Boone. Clooney was raised a strict Roman Catholic, but said in 2006 that he does not know if he believes in Heaven, or even God. He has said, "Yes, we were Catholic, big time, whole family, whole group." He began his education at the Blessed Sacrament School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. He attended St. Michael's School in Columbus, Ohio; then Western Row Elementary School (a public school) in Mason, Ohio, from 1968 to 1974; and St. Susanna School in Mason, where he served as an altar boy. The Clooneys moved back to Kentucky when George was midway through the seventh grade. In middle school, Clooney developed Bell's palsy, a condition that partially paralyzes the face. The malady went away within a year. In an interview with Larry King, he stated that "yes, it goes away. It takes about nine months to go away. It was the first year of high school, which was a bad time for having half your face paralyzed."〔 After his parents moved to Augusta, Kentucky, Clooney attended Augusta High School. He has stated that he earned all As and a B in school, and was an enthusiastic baseball and basketball player. He tried out to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, but he did not pass the first round of player cuts, and was not offered a contract.〔Clooney, Nina. (George Clooney well-rooted in N. Ky. Clooney Studio. August 21, 2006. )〕 He attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, majoring in broadcast journalism, and very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either. He made money selling women's shoes, insurance door-to-door, stocking shelves, working construction, and cutting tobacco.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Clooney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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