The Profile: Hollywood actor and activist George Clooney

The actor/director has consistently used his considerable star power to focus on global issues he wants more of us to care about

In brief:

Name: George Clooney

Age: 59

Appearance: silver-haired and generally smiling

Newsworthiness: always politically active, the actor has made his first film about the climate emergency, hoping to spark a conversation about how we will save the world

In depth:

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, it was often said that actors had two faces, or the good ones did at least. They could tilt their heads to the left or to the right ...