George Clooney

The Profile

George Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker from Kentucky, active since the late 1970s. After breakthrough success on ER, he built a major film career and directed features including Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Ides of March, and Suburbicon. He has won two Academy Awards (Supporting Actor for Syriana; as producer of Argo).

Director of politically tinged dramas and satires; films include Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), The Ides of March (2011), and Suburbicon (2017). American; active 1978–present.

Across these reviews, Clooney emerges as a director drawn to politics, media, and moral compromise. Good Night and Good Luck is praised for focus and craft. The Ides of March is effective but seen as somewhat superficial in places. Suburbicon is viewed as a Coen-flavored hybrid with solid direction but uneven tone. Confessioni di una mente pericolosa gets credit for Rockwell’s performance and Clooney’s debut.