George Clooney-Personal Trivia

Personal Trivia about George Clooney are as follows:

• He was voted "Sexiest Man Alive" by People Magazine in 1997
  
• He was voted "Best Dressed Male Television Star." in 1997
  
• He was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World." in 1996
  
• For eighteen years he owned a pet pig named Max that was given to him by Kelly Preston. Max died on December 1, 2006.
  
• He Studied acting at The Beverly Hills Playhouse.
  
• He was the very first guest on the talk-show of host Rosie O'Donnell when her TV show debuted.
  
• He dated Renée Zellweger and Mariella Frostrup.
  
• He is suffering from bleeding stomach ulcers and is still on medication for stomach pain to this day.
  
• He was Ranked 27 on Premiere's 2002 Power 100 List.
  
• When married to Talia Balsam he was the son-in-law of Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten.
  
• One of People Magazine's "Top 50 Bachelors" (2002).
  
• Ranked 29 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List.
  
• Is the sixth actor to play Batman.
  
• No. 3 of 10 Top Sexiest Men in People magazine in 2003.
  
• Broke up with girlfriend Krista Allen in 2004.
  
• Shared an apartment with actor Thom Mathews during the early 1980s.
  
• Dated Céline Balitran from 1996 to 1999.
  
• Was the second man, after Richard Gere, to make an appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine.
  
• Ranked 16 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties."
  
• Rode a bicycle to get to auditions as a struggling actor.
  
• At 43, he was voted sexiest male celebrity in a 'Naughty Forties' poll conducted for UK television station FX.
  
• Shared an L.A. home with Kelly Preston when both were struggling actors.
  
• He loves beer. He does voice overs for Budweiser TV commercials and allegedly had a beer keg installed in his dressing room during filming of Ocean's Eleven in 2001.
  
• Lived in a friend's closet during his struggle as an actor in L.A.
  
• Is a Dallas Mavericks fan.
  
• His relationship with Krista Allen, whom he met on the set of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), ended after 2 years.
  
• In June 2005 he broke off relationship with Lisa Snowdon after 5 years.
  
• In 2005 appeared on the cover of the first Men's Vogue.
  
• He owns a villa in Laglio at Lake Como, Italy, where he lives several months of the year.
  
• Close friends with actor Tommy Hinkley.
  
• Ranked 21 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. He was ranked 43 in 2005.
  
• Turned down the role of Sgt. John McLoughlin in World Trade Center in 2006.
  
• People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 2006.
  
• Suffered from Bell's palsy for a time while he was in high school.
  
• In December 2006, he traveled to China and Egypt to make a personal plea to Chinese and Egyptian officials to use their ties with the Sudanese government to help stop the violence in the Darfur region.
  
• Lives at Lago di Como in Italy.
  
• Was considered for the part of Reed Richards in Fantastic Four in 2005.
  
• In 2001 he was Voted Most Eligible Bachelor by People Magazine.
  
• Quit smoking cigarettes after his aunt Rosemary Clooney died from lung cancer in 2002.
  
• In September 2006 he addressed the United Nations Security Council, urging it to act over Darfur.
  
• Helped celebrate a plan to rebuild a hospital in hurricane-devastated Louisiana alongside former President George Bush on 20 December 2006.
  
• In 2007 he was ranked 13 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.
  
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $25 million.
  
• Supports Senator Barack Obama's bid to win the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election.
  
• He and his girlfriend, Sarah Larson, had an accident in 2007 while riding a motorcycle. She broke some toes, and Clooney broke a rib.
  
• Merited a place in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" with a tribute written by Roseanne, in Issue of May 12, 2008.
  
• Broke up with Sarah Larson in June, 2008.
  
• His palatial villa overlooking Italy's Lake Como comprises 15 rooms, a wine cellar, and a master bedroom suite atop three floors. In his garage Clooney keeps his collection of Piaggio motorbikes. Docked at his pier is a Colombo classic powerboat.

George Clooney-Filmography

In 2000, Geoorge Clooney appeared in major Hollywood films like The Perfect Storm and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. For the later he even won a Golden Globe Award for Best Musical/Comedy Actor. The same year he also did Fail Safe as Col. Jack Grady. In 2001, he again teamed up with Soderbergh, but this time for Ocean's Eleven that was a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven. He also starred in Spy Kids as Devlin, the same year. In Ocean's Eleven he played the main lead Danny Ocean.

Ocean's Eleven is Clooney's most commercially successful film ever, earning approximately US$ 444,200,000 worldwide. The film has two sequels Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007 both starring George Clooney in the lead and as an executive producer. In 2001, George Clooney founded the production studio Section Eight with Steven Soderbergh. He made his directorial debut in the 2002 with the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind which is an adaptation of the autobiography of TV producer Chuck Barris. George Clooney's direction received an over whelming response from the critics and the audiences despite of the film failing.

In 2002 George Clooney also starred in Solaris as Chris Kelvin and Welcome to Collinwood as Jerzy. He was also the producer of Solaris. The same year he also appeared in a documnetary Starbuck Holger Meins. In 2003 he did Intolerable Cruelty as Miles Massey and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over a sequel of Spy Kids(2001), as Devlin. He also Produced Insomnia as an Executive Producer in 2002.

In 2005, George Clooney appeared in Syriana as Bob Barnes. In 2005 itself Clooney directed, produced, and starred as Fred Friendly in the film Good Night, and Good Luck. Both of these films were highly accepted at the box office and during 2006 Academy Awards George Clooney received a nomination for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck, as well as Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. He became the first person in Oscar history to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another in the same year. In 2006 He did The Good German as Jake Geismar.

In 2007, George Clooney produced and starred in Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton. The same year he also did Darfur Now as himself. In 2008 last year he directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in Leatherheads as Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly but the film is uncredited. He also starred in Burn After Reading as Harry Pfarrer last year. His upcoming films are Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009, Up in the Air in 2009 based on the novel "Up in the Air" by Walter Kirn and Men Who Stare at Goats in 2010.