How is Rosemary Clooney related to George Clooney? Did Rosemary and George Clooney close?

Singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was the aunt of Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney.

George Clooney is the son of Rosemary Clooney’s brother Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host.

George is an actor and filmmaker. Clooney commenced his career in television, gaining wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the NBC medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

He has since starred in over 70 films including The Facts of Life (1985–1987), Roseanne (1988), Sisters (1991), Burn After Reading (2008), The American (2010), Gravity (2013), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Ticket to Paradise (2022), and many others.

Clooney made his directorial debut with the spy drama Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and has since directed the historical drama Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), the political drama The Ides of March (2011), the war film The Monuments Men (2014), and the science fiction film The Midnight Sky (2020).

Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller Syriana (2005) and earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), and the comedy-dramas Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011).

He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing the political thriller Argo (2012).

George Clooney is the recipient of the British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards, one for his acting and the other as a producer.

He was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and in 2022, he was felicitated at the Kennedy Center Honors for a “lifetime of contributions to American culture.

At Rosemary Clooney’s funeral, the 61-year-old George Clooney was a pallbearer.