Long before he was a Hollywood heavyweight, George Clooney was a small-screen sex symbol, playing a hunky handyman on ABC’s female-centric sitcom, “The Facts of Life.” “Quite honestly, I was objectified,” Clooney told The Washington Post in 2022. “I remember doing scenes on ‘Roseanne’ and I’d drop a clipboard and bend over, and they’d all slap me on the a**.” Following his tenure as Dr. Doug Ross on “ER,” he appeared in the Coen brothers’ 2000 comedy, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” “The Coen brothers allowed me to just say, ‘Okay, just be a full-out character actor,'” he said.
In 2006, Clooney won an Oscar for his supporting role in the political thriller “Syriana,” and he later received nods for “Michael Clayton,” “The Descendants,” and the 2010 comedy “Up in the Air.” His character, Ryan Bingham, is a corporate hatchet man who delivers the news to employees that they are out of a job. “Clooney gives his most fully felt performance to date as a smooth hedonist who comes to realize that he may be drowning,” wrote Entertainment Weekly.
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Clooney also starred alongside Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, and Matt Damon in the hit heist film “Oceans 11” and its two sequels. Of his legacy, the Oscar winner told GQ, “I don’t want to just be able at the end of my career to say how many films opened to number one. … I wanted them to be films that would hold up longer than an opening weekend, and I’ve been lucky enough to have a few.”
