George Clooney

He made his debut as a film director in the 2002 feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind an adaptation of the implausible autobiography of groundbreaking TV producer Chuck Barris. His sons, Paul and Pádraig, work as a producer with RTÉ and in computers, respectively. He is the son of Cincinnati news anchor and TV host Nick Clooney, a nephew of actress and singer Rosemary Clooney, and a cousin of actor Miguel Ferrer; another cousin, Gabe Ferrer, is married to Debby Boone. His four daughters, Niamh, Sorcha, Sinéad and Catherine are actresses. He played a handyman on television series The Facts of Life. Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, in which three of his daughters played the sisters. He has also appeared in a number of movies such as Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), One Fine Day (1996), Batman & Robin (1997), Out of Sight (1998), Three Kings (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Intolerable Cruelty, and Ocean's Twelve (2004), along with guest appearances on sitcoms such as Roseanne and Friends. In 1989 his performance in the film My Left Foot, with Daniel Day-Lewis, contributed to its success.

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American film and television actor probably best-known for his former role in the long-running television drama ER (1994-99). In 1984 he appeared as the shop-keeper and Thought Police spy Charrington in the film version of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He received honorary doctorates in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. Two years later in 1979 he married Mary Rose Cunningham. In 1977 Cusack's wife, Maureen Kiely, an actress, died.

By this stage he had established a successful career in films. In 1963 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and appeared there for several seasons. In 1947 Cusack formed his own company and staged productions in Dublin, Paris and New York City. Between then and 1945 he performed in over sixty productions, particularly excelling in the plays of Sean O'Casey.

He left without a degree and joined the Abbey Theatre in 1932. Cusack was educated in Newbridge, Kildare, and University College, Dublin. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players.

His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. He was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 - 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, born in Natal, South Africa.