- Name: George Clooney
- Profession: Actor
- Nationality: American
- Net Worth: $500 million
George Clooney is an actor, director, screenwriter, and activist from American who has a current net worth of $500 million.
Clooney has been in the industry for many decades and is one of America’s George Clooney is one of the most sought-after American A-list actors in Hollywood. George Clooney was born into a simple family in Lexington, Kentucky on the 6th of May, 1961.
After he relocated to Los Angeles, Clooney had no home and had to live in his car for some time. Although he was dealing with being homeless, he had the car park of his famous aunt, Rosemary Clooney, to park his car and sleep at night.
He pursued his acting career from there and soon won minor roles in popular television shows like Roseanne, The Facts of Life, and The Golden Girls. Clooney’s first significant acting role was on the 1984 sitcom E/R —not to be confused with his hit role in the NBC drama ER, which started in 1994.
While George was still on ER, he got a few roles in popular films like From Dusk til Dawn, Out of Sight, and One fine day. He also was lucky enough to succeed Val Kilmer as Batman; however, he only made an appearance in one Batman film.
He showed up in the ER series from 1994-1999 and then showed again in 2000 and 2009. Clooney appeared in a total of 109 ER episodes.
Clooney grew in fame and left ER in 1999 and pursued other acting gigs, which landed him a spate of box office successes, and that includes his most famous to date, Ocean’s 11.
In the year 2005, George Clooney appeared in the movie titled Syriana, for which he was lucky enough to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
That same year, George was also nominated for both writing and directing Good Night, and Good Luck, and made history by becoming the first person in the history of Oscar to be nominated for directing one movie and acting in another, in a single year.
Clooney is known to be very active in a wide range of political causes, including the war in Darfur, Sudan, as well as the fundraising for relief after the Haiti 2010 earthquake.
Marriage and love life
George Clooney got married to Talia Balsam in 1989, but the duo didn’t last long as a couple and got divorced in 1993. Clooney went on to live alone with his best friend and pet pig, Max, until the death of the 4-legged buddy in 2006.
Clooney decided to find love again, and on April 28, 2014, he became engaged to famous British-Lebanese human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, as confirmed by a representative at the lady’s law firm Doughty Street Chambers.
Amal and Clooney officially tied the knot on the 27th of September, 2014, at Ca’ Farsetti. They were wedded by Clooney’s friend, the former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni.
George Clooney Salary Highlights and Career Earnings
George Clooney showed up in a total of 19 episodes of Sisters, and he earned $40,000 for each appearance. That sums up to a total of $760,000.
George was paid $100,000 for each episode of ER. The actor mentioned that he intentionally never requested a raise and only focused on becoming a major star to promote his budding movie career.
In total sum, George Clooney earned about $11 million for appearing in ER. One of his biggest paychecks at the dawn of his acting career was from the 1996 movie “One Fine Day,” which he earned $3 million for starring in.
He was paid $10 million for his single appearance in Batman $10 million for the film Out of Sight, $8 million for his appearance in The Perfect Storm, a massive sum of $15 million for showing up in the movie Intolerable Cruelty.
Clooney made $20 million for the movie Ocean’s Eleven and $15 million for starring in Ocean’s Thirteen. George has earned close to $200 million before taxes only from his film and TV career.
Nespresso Paycheck
Since the year 2013, George Clooney has made appearances in several advertisements for Nespresso.
He spends a portion of every paycheck to fund a particular spy satellite that spy’s over Sudan all the time. This allows the actor to keep a close eye on Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir who’s since been charged with hate crimes.
The spy satellite not only focuses on tracking Bashir personally, but it also makes sure to monitor his armed forces to anticipate any movement and potential violations of human rights.
Real Estate Portfolio
George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney own homes in different parts of the world. Arguably, the most famous house belonging to George Clooney is his 15 bedroom villa property on Italy’s Lake Como, which he bought in 2002 for a whopping $30 million.
The couple owns a six-bedroom mansion home in Studio City, California, which Clooney bought in 1995 for $2.2 million at the peak of his ER fame. Today, this property is likely worth as much as $10+ million.
The couple owns a property worth $7 million in Berkshire, England, a grand apartment in New York City, amongst many others. In sum, George and Amal have a real estate portfolio that is worth as much as $100 million.
Earnings From Casamigos Tequila
In 2013, George Clooney and the famous entrepreneurs, Rande Gerber and Michael Meldman, birthed Casamigos Tequila.
Rande Gerber is probably most famous for being the husband of Cindy Crawford. Meldman is known to be a real estate tycoon.
The three partners initially launched the now-famous brand as a private label to give tequila to close friends and family members. They changed the brand into a public label in the year 2013.
On the 21st of 2017, Clooney, Gerber, and Meldman made a decision to sell Casamigos to famous alcohol conglomerate Diageo for a whopping billion.
The trio was paid $700 million in cash with an additional $300 million in bonuses that will is to be paid out based on the brand’s future performance goals.
Assuming there was a three-way split on the first $700 million, George Clooney’s pre-tax share would be around $230 million. After taxes, it should be about $150 million.
George Clooney Net Worth notable Milestones
- 1993: $500 thousand
- 1995: $3 million
- 2000: $10 million
- 2005: $50 million
- 2007: $70 million
- 2012: $100 million
- 2015: $200 million
- 2019: $500 million
