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George Clooney is a four-time Golden Globe Award winner, a two-time Academy Award winner and a 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree. He gained notoriety in the 1990s as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER and went on to star in a long list of films including From Dusk Till Dawn, Out of Sight, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Ocean's film series, among others. He made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, going on to helm The Ides of March, The Monuments Men, The Midnight Sky, and most recently, the 2023 film The Boys in the Boat. He earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Bob Barnes in the 2005 thriller Syriana and earned Best Actor nominations for Michael Clayton, Up in the Air and The Descendants. He received his second Academy Award for co-producing the 2012 Best Picture, Argo. On stage, Clooney starred alongside Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a March 2012 performance of Dustin Lance Black's play 8—a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage. The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.