17 interesting facts about George Clooney
- George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.
- During November of 2007, it was reported that George Clooney got into a shoving match with Italian model, Fabio at an L.A restaurant over suspicions one of Fabio's friends was taking pictures of George and his then-girlfriend Sarah Larsen.
- On June 6th 2007, George left his hand and feet prints in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
- George Clooney and longtime production partner Steven Soderbergh decided to close their 'Section Eight' production company after a six year run, in August 2006.
- George suffered a terrible accident during the filming of Syriana, causing spinal fluid to leak into his brain, severe back pain, headaches, and memory loss. After several spine surgeries, he fully recovered.
- George heads his own film and television production company, called 'Maysville Pictures'.
- George Clooney won a 2006 Golden Globe award for the Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his role in Syriana.
- George's E.R character, Dr. Doug Ross, was named number 95 in Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters.
- George donated $1 million to the United Way for hurricane relief.
- George Clooney loves beer. He has done voice overs for Budweiser TV commercials and reportedly had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room during filming of Ocean's 11.
- George loves the show South Park so much that he called Trey Parker, the creator of the series, and asked for a part in an episode. He was given the role of "Sparky", the gay dog.
- George appears in ZZ Top's She's Just Killin' Me music video along with actress Salma Hayek. The song is on the soundtrack of From Dusk Till Dawn.
- George Clooney is only one of two men to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine (the other being Richard Gere). He was also on the cover for the premiere of Men's Vogue in 2005.
- George was the best man at the wedding of fellow actor and friend, Richard Kind.
- George Clooney was the sixth actor to play Batman.
- George's famed "Roman haircut" was actually an accident. While filming From Dusk Till Dawn, he wanted to make his character Seth Gecko look really crazy with a chopped off hairstyle, but the haircut became popular and turned into a positive.
- George Clooney once said he would never get married again, nor have any children, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman bet $10,000 each that he would be a father before he turns 40. As it turned out, they both lost the bet.
