Movies Gallery 62 photos of George Clooney through the years By Madeline Boardman Madeline Boardman Madeline Boardman is a former digital features director at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2017. EW's editorial guidelines Updated on February 24, 2023 10:20AM EST Trending Videos Close this video player 01 of 62 George Clooney, then and now Ron Tom/NBCU Photo Bank; Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images; Sven Arnstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images George Clooney was born in Lexington, Ky., on May 6, 1961. The actor rose to fame in his 20s, becoming a bona fide leading man soon after. Decades later, Clooney has Oscars and Golden Globes to his name and is only adding to his résumé. See photos of the star over the years, ahead. 02 of 62 George Clooney with Kelly Preston in 1985 Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Getty Images 03 of 62 George Clooney as George Burnett on The Facts of Life on Sept. 28, 1985 Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank 04 of 62 George Clooney as Major Biff Woods in Combat Academy on Oct. 3, 1986 Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank 05 of 62 George Clooney as Booker Brooks on Roseanne on Nov. 29, 1988 ABC via Getty Images 06 of 62 George Clooney on June 24, 1989 Jim Smeal/WireImage 07 of 62 George Clooney in Los Angeles in 1990 Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images 08 of 62 George Clooney on July 26, 1990 ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images 09 of 62 George Clooney in Los Angeles on March 2, 1992 Harry Langdon/Getty Images 10 of 62 George Clooney in the early-'90s Steve Granitz/WireImage 11 of 62 George Clooney on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Sept. 16, 1994 Margaret Norton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank 12 of 62 George Clooney with Noah Wyle on Dec. 7, 1994 Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage 13 of 62 George Clooney and Kimberly Russell in Beverly Hills on Dec. 11, 1994 Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage 14 of 62 George Clooney at the 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 21, 1995 Steve Granitz/WireImage 15 of 62 George Clooney on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 25, 1995 Alan Singer/NBCU Photo Bank 16 of 62 George Clooney with Julianna Margulies on March 4, 1995 Ron Galella/WireImage 17 of 62 George Clooney with Kelsey Grammer, Tommy Lee, and Jason Patric in Las Vegas on March 10, 1995 Steve Granitz/WireImage 18 of 62 George Clooney filming One Fine Day on May 1, 1996 Ron Galella/WireImage 19 of 62 George Clooney in One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer in 1996 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images 20 of 62 George Clooney with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman in Hollywood on June 3, 1995 Jim Smeal/WireImage 21 of 62 George Clooney with Dan Cortese and Ozzie Smith at MTV's 6th Annual Rock N' Jock Baseball in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 1995 Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic 22 of 62 George Clooney with Celine Balitran at the Los Angeles premiere of Sleepers on Oct. 11, 1996 Jim Smeal/WireImage 23 of 62 George Clooney with Celine Balitran at the 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 19, 1997 Steve Granitz/WireImage 24 of 62 George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross on ER in 1997 Sven Arnstein/ABC 25 of 62 George Clooney at the 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards with Celine Balitran on Jan. 18, 1998 Hal Garb/AFP/Getty Images 26 of 62 George Clooney in Out of Sight in 1998 Universal/Getty Images 27 of 62 George Clooney at the GQ Man of the Year Awards in New York on Oct. 21, 1998 Steve Eichner/Getty Images 28 of 62 George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross on ER in 1999 NBC/Getty Images 29 of 62 George Clooney on Sept. 30, 1999 Jim Smeal/WireImage 30 of 62 George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother, Where Art Thou? with John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson on Jan. 24, 2000 Getty Images 31 of 62 George Clooney with Chuck Knoblauch at the New York Yankees' spring training in Tampa in 2000 Linda Cataffo/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images 32 of 62 George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Perfect Storm on June 26, 2000 Lucy Nicholson/AFP/Getty Images 33 of 62 George Clooney at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 21, 2001 Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage 34 of 62 George Clooney in New York City on March 4, 2001 Kevin Mazur/WireImage 35 of 62 George Clooney on Late Show With David Letterman on Nov. 26, 2002 James Devaney/WireImage 36 of 62 George Clooney at the premiere of Intolerable Cruelty with Catherine Zeta-Jones on Sept. 30, 2003 Gregg DeGuire/WireImage 37 of 62 George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Bourne Supremacy with Lisa Snowdon on July 15, 2004 Kevin Winter/Getty Images 38 of 62 George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of Ocean's Twelve with Andy Garcia and Don Cheadle on Dec. 8, 2004 L. Cohen/WireImage 39 of 62 George Clooney on Sept. 22, 2005 Michael Albans/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images 40 of 62 George Clooney at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 10, 2006 Sean Gallup/Getty Images 41 of 62 George Clooney at the 78th Annual Academy Awards on March 5, 2006 Steve Granitz Archive/WireImage 42 of 62 George Clooney with Julia Roberts in Beverly Hills on Oct. 14, 2006 Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic 43 of 62 George Clooney at Grauman's Chinese Theatre with Brad Pitt on June 5, 2007 Kevin Winter/Getty Images 44 of 62 George Clooney at the United Nations on Jan. 31, 2008 Jemal Countess/WireImage 45 of 62 George Clooney at the 65th Venice Film Festival with Brad Pitt on Aug. 27, 2008 Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images 46 of 62 George Clooney at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 26, 2009 Jeff Snyder/FilmMagic 47 of 62 George Clooney at the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the 66th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2009 Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images 48 of 62 George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Descendants on Nov. 15, 2011 Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic 49 of 62 George Clooney at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 15, 2012 Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank 50 of 62 George Clooney at the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 10, 2013 Larry Busacca/Getty Images 51 of 62 George Clooney at the 85th Academy Awards with Grant Heslov and Ben Affleck on Feb. 24, 2013 Jason Merritt/Getty Images 52 of 62 George Clooney in Venice with Amal Alamuddin on Sept. 28, 2014 Ernesto Ruscio/GC Images 53 of 62 George Clooney in Venice with Amal Alamuddin on Sept. 29, 2014 Ernesto Ruscio/GC Images 54 of 62 George Clooney in New York City with Amal Clooney on March 10, 2015 Mike Coppola/Getty Images 55 of 62 George Clooney at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, 2015 Kevin Winter/Getty Images 56 of 62 George Clooney at the Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 11, 2016 Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images 57 of 62 Julia Roberts and George Clooney at Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief at Universal Studios AMC on Sept. 12, 2017 Kevin Mazur/Hand in Hand/Getty 58 of 62 Amal Clooney and George Clooney at the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018 IAN WEST/AFP/Getty 59 of 62 George Clooney at the premiere of Hulu's Catch-22 in Hollywood on May 7, 2019 Vivien Killilea/Getty 60 of 62 George Clooney with Jimmy Kimmel at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Dec. 2, 2020 Randy Holmes/Getty 61 of 62 George Clooney and Amal Clooney at the The Tender Bar premiere during the 65th BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 10, 2021 Samir Hussein/WireImage 62 of 62 U2, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, and Tania León at the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in December 2022 Gail Schulman/CBS/Getty