62 photos of George Clooney through the years

George Clooney, then and now

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.

George Clooney with Kelly Preston in 1985

George Clooney as George Burnett on The Facts of Life on Sept. 28, 1985

George Clooney as Major Biff Woods in Combat Academy on Oct. 3, 1986

George Clooney as Booker Brooks on Roseanne on Nov. 29, 1988

George Clooney on June 24, 1989

George Clooney in Los Angeles in 1990

George Clooney on July 26, 1990

George Clooney in Los Angeles on March 2, 1992

George Clooney in the early-'90s

George Clooney on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Sept. 16, 1994

George Clooney with Noah Wyle on Dec. 7, 1994

George Clooney and Kimberly Russell in Beverly Hills on Dec. 11, 1994

George Clooney at the 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 21, 1995

George Clooney on Saturday Night Live on Feb. 25, 1995

George Clooney with Julianna Margulies on March 4, 1995

George Clooney with Kelsey Grammer, Tommy Lee, and Jason Patric in Las Vegas on March 10, 1995

George Clooney filming One Fine Day on May 1, 1996

George Clooney in One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer in 1996

George Clooney with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman in Hollywood on June 3, 1995

George Clooney with Dan Cortese and Ozzie Smith at MTV's 6th Annual Rock N' Jock Baseball in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 1995

George Clooney with Celine Balitran at the Los Angeles premiere of Sleepers on Oct. 11, 1996

George Clooney with Celine Balitran at the 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 19, 1997

George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross on ER in 1997

George Clooney at the 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards with Celine Balitran on Jan. 18, 1998

George Clooney in Out of Sight in 1998

George Clooney at the GQ Man of the Year Awards in New York on Oct. 21, 1998

George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross on ER in 1999

George Clooney on Sept. 30, 1999

George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother, Where Art Thou? with John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson on Jan. 24, 2000

George Clooney with Chuck Knoblauch at the New York Yankees' spring training in Tampa in 2000

George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Perfect Storm on June 26, 2000

George Clooney at the 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 21, 2001

George Clooney in New York City on March 4, 2001

George Clooney on Late Show With David Letterman on Nov. 26, 2002

George Clooney at the premiere of Intolerable Cruelty with Catherine Zeta-Jones on Sept. 30, 2003

George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Bourne Supremacy with Lisa Snowdon on July 15, 2004

George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of Ocean's Twelve with Andy Garcia and Don Cheadle on Dec. 8, 2004

George Clooney on Sept. 22, 2005

George Clooney at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 10, 2006

George Clooney at the 78th Annual Academy Awards on March 5, 2006

George Clooney with Julia Roberts in Beverly Hills on Oct. 14, 2006

George Clooney at Grauman's Chinese Theatre with Brad Pitt on June 5, 2007

George Clooney at the United Nations on Jan. 31, 2008

George Clooney at the 65th Venice Film Festival with Brad Pitt on Aug. 27, 2008

George Clooney at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 26, 2009

George Clooney at the premiere of The Men Who Stare at Goats at the 66th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 8, 2009

George Clooney at the Los Angeles premiere of The Descendants on Nov. 15, 2011

George Clooney at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 15, 2012

George Clooney at the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 10, 2013

George Clooney at the 85th Academy Awards with Grant Heslov and Ben Affleck on Feb. 24, 2013

George Clooney in Venice with Amal Alamuddin on Sept. 28, 2014

George Clooney in Venice with Amal Alamuddin on Sept. 29, 2014

George Clooney in New York City with Amal Clooney on March 10, 2015

George Clooney at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, 2015

George Clooney at the Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 11, 2016

Julia Roberts and George Clooney at Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief at Universal Studios AMC on Sept. 12, 2017

Amal Clooney and George Clooney at the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018

George Clooney at the premiere of Hulu's Catch-22 in Hollywood on May 7, 2019

George Clooney with Jimmy Kimmel at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Dec. 2, 2020

George Clooney and Amal Clooney at the The Tender Bar premiere during the 65th BFI London Film Festival on Oct. 10, 2021

U2, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, George Clooney, and Tania León at the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in December 2022