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George and Amal Clooney are far more than just a handsome couple gracing the global scene. Film actor, producer, and director George Clooney and international lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney are renowned for their economic and political activism on behalf of the persecuted and poor.
George Clooney caused a stir recently when he castigated Donald Trump’s declaration that Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran did not succumb to Washington’s commands. Clooney said Trump committed a war crime with his threat. “But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime. You can still support the conservative point of view but there must be a line of decency, and we must not cross it.”
Clooney has long been a critic of Trump and his efforts to hobble the press. “We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller,” Clooney said in a “60 Minutes” interview. “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have, and that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on, they don’t like the press.” Clooney added, “It’s a fight that is for the ages. Journalism and telling truth to power has to be waged like war is waged. It doesn’t just happen accidentally. You know, it takes people saying we’re going to do these stories, and you’re going to have to come after us. And that’s the way it is.”
Of Irish immigrant ancestry, Clooney was born into a family which moved from Ohio to Kentucky where he grew up and attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, majoring in broadcast journalism. He shifted briefly to the University of Cincinnati but did not graduate. He supported himself by selling women’s shoes and insurance, stocking shelves, working in construction, and cutting tobacco before turning to acting. He began with minor roles before playing in the hit NBC medical drama “ER” (Emergency Room) from 1994 to 1999, which was considered one of the top television shows. After leaving “ER,” he secured leading roles in films, some award-winning, and on Broadway, and debuted as a director and producer.
A long-term Democrat, Clooney supported both of Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns and endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election. Clooney backed Joe Biden, a good friend, for the 2020 presidential election but in 2024 Clooney called for an ageing Biden to withdraw after his poor performance in a television appearance. Clooney said, “It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.” He urged the Democratic Party’s National Convention to select a new nominee, but it failed to do so. Biden was compelled to step down in July and Vice President Kamala Harris – also supported by Clooney – was chosen but did not have enough time to campaign fully and lost to Donald Trump.
International human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin met and immediately connected with Clooney in July 2013 when a mutual friend brought her to his Italian Lake Como home. Born in Beirut but raised in Britain after her family fled Lebanon’s civil war, she enrolled at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she studied jurisprudence. She went on to earn a Master of Laws degree at New York University School of Law. During this time, she interned in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, who was then a judge for the United States Court of Appeals and is now an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court.
Alamuddin has represented several high-profile figures, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ex-Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa. Alamuddin is an international law professor at Oxford and a senior fellow at the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, which she co-founded to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to improve access to justice for all.
In July 2014, Catholic Clooney became engaged to Sunni/Druze Amal Alamuddin, and a British tabloid newspaper reported her mother opposed their marriage on religious grounds. This was unlikely as her parents are of different religions. Her Sunni mother Baria Alamuddin is a Lebanese journalist and broadcaster while her Druze husband Ramzi was a professor at the American University of Beirut and founded a travel firm.
Clooney and Alamuddin were married in September in Venice in a ceremony presided over by Rome’s mayor and attended by scores of famous figures. The pair had forged a close bond over common causes. At that time, she was acting for the Greek government for the return of the Elgin Marbles while he was promoting his film, “The Monuments Men,” which is about the World War II team of US experts and activists deployed to save Europe’s treasures from theft and destruction by the Nazis. In 2017, she gave birth to a daughter and a son. In 2025, they settled on farm in France where their 8-year-old twins would not be harassed by the media, and that December, the family acquired French citizenship, prompting nasty comments from Trump.
