George Clooney Net Worth 2026: Casamigos, ER, Ocean’s and Broadway

George Clooney’s net worth is about $500 million, according to the widely reported estimate cited by Parade in January 2026 and by Men’s Journal in March 2026. Clooney is one of the few Hollywood stars whose largest payday did not come from a movie at all, but from a tequila brand he started with two friends.

George Clooney: quick facts

Net worth

$500 Million

Source of wealth

Casamigos, Acting

Profession

Actor, Director, Producer, Entrepreneur

Nationality

American, French

Place of birth

Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Date of birth

May 6, 1961 (age 65)

That brand, Casamigos, was sold to the drinks giant Diageo in 2017 in a deal worth up to $1 billion. The sale pushed Clooney to the top of Forbes’ 2018 list of the world’s highest-paid actors, with $239 million in pre-tax income for a single year.

Add three decades of leading roles, a busy career as a director and producer, long-running endorsement deals, a record-breaking Broadway run and homes in four countries, and you get one of the richest actors working today. Explore more actor net worth profiles for comparison.

George Clooney at a glance

• Net worth: about $500 million (published estimates, as cited in 2026)
• Born: May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky
• Profession: actor, director, producer, screenwriter and entrepreneur
• Companies: Casamigos (co-founder, sold 2017), Smokehouse Pictures (co-founder with Grant Heslov)
• Biggest payday: the Casamigos sale, which helped him earn $239 million in 12 months (Forbes, 2018)
• Awards: two Academy Awards (Best Supporting Actor for Syriana; Best Picture as a producer of Argo), Kennedy Center Honor (2022), AFI Life Achievement Award (2018)
• Spouse: human rights lawyer Amal Clooney (married 2014)
• Citizenship: American and, since December 2025, French

Where George Clooney’s money comes from

Source	Details	Estimate
Casamigos tequila	Co-founded in 2013; sold to Diageo in 2017	Deal worth up to $1 billion; Clooney’s share roughly one third
Acting	ER, the Ocean’s trilogy, Gravity, Wolfs and dozens more	Top fees reported in the $15 million to $20 million-plus range
Directing and producing	Smokehouse Pictures, earlier Section Eight with Steven Soderbergh	Fees plus backend on films and series
Endorsements	Nespresso, Omega and earlier deals with Martini and Fiat	Nespresso deal reported at about $40 million
Broadway	Good Night, and Good Luck (2025)	At least $9 million, per a Broadway Journal analysis
Real estate	Homes in Italy, England, France, New York and Kentucky	Tens of millions of dollars

George Clooney’s film and TV salaries

Studios rarely confirm actor pay, so most of the numbers below come from trade reports or from Clooney himself. Treat them as estimates.

Project	Year	Reported pay
ER (five seasons)	1994–1999	About $11 million in total
Batman & Robin	1997	About $1 million, by Clooney’s own account
The Perfect Storm	2000	About $8 million
Ocean’s Eleven	2001	Reportedly about $20 million (not confirmed)
Intolerable Cruelty	2003	About $15 million
Gravity	2013	About $20 million upfront plus a share of profits
Wolfs	2024	Reported at $35 million; Clooney said the real figure was far lower

The Batman & Robin number is famous because co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger was reportedly paid about $25 million. Clooney has joked for years that he took most of the blame for the film for a fraction of the money.

Early life

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky. His father, Nick Clooney, was a TV news anchor and host, and his mother, Nina, was a former beauty queen who later served on a city council. His aunt was the singer and actress Rosemary Clooney.

The family moved between Kentucky and Ohio and settled back in Kentucky when he was in seventh grade. He graduated from Augusta High School, then studied broadcast journalism at Northern Kentucky University and briefly attended the University of Cincinnati. He did not graduate from either school.

He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and spent about five years taking classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse while picking up small TV jobs.

Early TV career

Clooney spent most of the 1980s and early 1990s as a working TV actor rather than a star. His credits included the sitcom E/R (1984), a recurring role as a handyman on The Facts of Life, and a part as Roseanne’s boss, Booker, on Roseanne.

He also starred in several short-lived series, such as Baby Talk, Bodies of Evidence and Sisters. His film work from the period included the low-budget Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988).

ER and the jump to movies

His big break came in 1994, when he was cast as pediatrician Dr. Doug Ross on NBC’s ER. The drama became one of the most-watched shows on television, and Clooney earned two Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations for the role.

His salary on ER was modest by later standards, about $11 million over five seasons. The show’s real value was the fame it gave him. While still on the series he moved into films, starring in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), One Fine Day (1996) and The Peacemaker (1997).

Batman & Robin (1997) was a critical flop, but Clooney rebounded quickly with Out of Sight (1998) and Three Kings (1999). He left ER in 1999 and returned only for brief guest appearances.

Leading man: Ocean’s, O Brother and the Oscar

The 2000s made Clooney one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars. The Perfect Storm (2000) was a major hit, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) won him a Golden Globe.

Then came the Ocean’s trilogy, directed by Steven Soderbergh, with Clooney as the smooth thief Danny Ocean:

• Ocean’s Eleven (2001): about $450 million worldwide
• Ocean’s Twelve (2004): about $362 million worldwide
• Ocean’s Thirteen (2007): about $311 million worldwide

Together the three films grossed more than $1.1 billion. He also kept making smaller, serious films. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Syriana (2005) and was nominated for Best Actor for Michael Clayton (2007), Up in the Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011).

Gravity (2013), with Sandra Bullock, grossed more than $700 million worldwide and was one of his most profitable films thanks to his share of the profits. Clooney later said that in 2013 he gave 14 close friends $1 million each in cash, as thanks for supporting him early in his career.

Recent films and Wolfs

Clooney has acted less often in recent years. He reunited with Julia Roberts in Ticket to Paradise (2022), which grossed about $170 million worldwide, and made a cameo as Batman in The Flash (2023).

In 2024 he co-starred with Brad Pitt in Wolfs for Apple. The New York Times reported that each star was paid $35 million. Clooney pushed back, saying the true figure was “millions” less and that both actors gave money back to help fund a wider theatrical release, which Apple later scaled back.

In 2025 he played an aging movie star in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix film Jay Kelly, with Adam Sandler and Laura Dern. In 2026 the Venice Film Festival gave him its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Directing and producing

Clooney has built a second career behind the camera. He made his directing debut with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002). His second film, Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, earned him Oscar nominations for directing and writing.

Other films he has directed include:

• Leatherheads (2008)
• The Ides of March (2011)
• The Monuments Men (2014)
• Suburbicon (2017)
• The Midnight Sky (2020, Netflix)
• The Tender Bar (2021, Amazon)
• The Boys in the Boat (2023)

Smokehouse Pictures

In 2006 Clooney and his longtime writing partner Grant Heslov founded Smokehouse Pictures. Before that he ran Section Eight Productions with Steven Soderbergh, which made the Ocean’s films and Syriana.

Smokehouse’s biggest success was Argo (2012), which Clooney produced with Heslov and Ben Affleck. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, giving Clooney his second Oscar. Clooney and Heslov have also worked together on TV, including Hulu’s miniseries Catch-22 (2019), which Clooney co-directed and appeared in.

Broadway: Good Night, and Good Luck

In spring 2025 Clooney made his Broadway debut in a stage version of Good Night, and Good Luck, which he co-wrote with Heslov. He played Murrow himself during a limited run at the Winter Garden Theatre.

The play repeatedly broke Broadway’s record for the highest weekly gross for a play. Over about 13 weeks it took in roughly $48 million, recouped its $9.5 million budget and returned about 55 percent to investors. Its final performance was broadcast live on CNN, a first for a Broadway show.

A Broadway Journal analysis estimated that Clooney earned at least $9 million from the run as star, co-author and co-producer. The role also earned him a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play.

Casamigos: the billion-dollar tequila

Casamigos began as a private project. Around 2013, Clooney, nightlife entrepreneur Rande Gerber (husband of Cindy Crawford) and real estate developer Mike Meldman wanted a smooth tequila for themselves while staying at their homes in Mexico. They worked with a distillery in Jalisco and launched the brand commercially in 2013.

It grew fast. In June 2017 Diageo, the company behind Johnnie Walker and Don Julio, agreed to buy Casamigos for $700 million upfront, plus up to $300 million more if the brand hit performance targets over the next ten years.

The founders did not publicly break down their shares, but each is widely reported to have held a roughly equal stake. Forbes counted most of Clooney’s record $239 million income from June 2017 to June 2018 as coming from the sale. After taxes, his take is commonly estimated at well over $100 million.

Endorsements

Clooney has been the face of Nespresso since the mid-2000s, one of the longest celebrity deals in advertising. His Nespresso earnings have been reported at about $40 million, and he has said he used much of that money to fund satellite monitoring of the Sudan–South Sudan border.

He has also been a longtime ambassador for Swiss watchmaker Omega and has appeared in ads for Martini and Fiat. He has said he turned down an offer of $35 million for a single day’s work on an airline commercial because he did not want to be linked to the company.

Real estate

Clooney and his wife have owned homes in Italy, England, France, the U.S. and Mexico. In recent years they sold their California and Mexico properties and made France their main family base.

Property	Year	Reported price
Studio City, Los Angeles home	Bought 1995; sold 2024	Sold for about $14.5 million
Villa Oleandra, Laglio, Lake Como, Italy	2002	Reportedly about $7 million or more
Mill House, Sonning Eye, England (River Thames)	2014	Reportedly about $13 million (roughly £10 million)
Manhattan condo, New York City	2016	Reportedly about $14.7 million
Domaine du Canadel, near Brignoles, Provence, France	2021	Reportedly about $8.3 million
Home near Augusta, Kentucky	Not disclosed	Not disclosed

Villa Oleandra on Lake Como is his best-known home. He bought the 18th-century villa in 2002 and later added a neighboring property. Rumors that he was selling it for about $100 million surfaced several times, and he denied them.

The Domaine du Canadel is a 425-acre wine estate with vineyards, olive groves, a pool and a lake. Clooney has said he wants his children to grow up there, away from Hollywood. In July 2026 the family briefly evacuated the estate as wildfires burned nearby.

The Studio City house was his Los Angeles base for nearly 30 years. He sold it in 2024 for about $14.5 million to NFL star Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo. Clooney also keeps close ties to Kentucky, where his family has deep roots, and the family has reportedly spent time at a property near Augusta, his hometown.

Personal life

Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993. For years afterward he was known as one of Hollywood’s most famous bachelors.

On September 27, 2014, he married British-Lebanese barrister Amal Alamuddin in Venice. Amal Clooney is a leading international human rights lawyer who has represented clients before international courts. Their twins, Ella and Alexander, were born on June 6, 2017.

In late December 2025, the French government granted French citizenship to Clooney, his wife and their children. He keeps his U.S. citizenship. Clooney is also a longtime Democratic supporter; in July 2024 he wrote a New York Times opinion piece urging President Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race.

Philanthropy

Clooney has spent decades on humanitarian causes, often through high-profile campaigns:

• Clooney Foundation for Justice: founded with Amal in 2016 to fight human rights abuses through the courts. Its TrialWatch program monitors unfair trials around the world.
• Not On Our Watch: co-founded with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and others to draw attention to atrocities in Darfur.
• Satellite Sentinel Project: launched in 2010 to watch for violence along the Sudan–South Sudan border, funded in part with his Nespresso money.
• Hope for Haiti Now: he organized the 2010 telethon after the Haiti earthquake.
• Donations: $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center (2017), $500,000 to March for Our Lives (2018) and $100,000 to Lebanese charities after the 2020 Beirut explosion.

He has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2008.

How George Clooney compares

Actor	Estimated net worth	Main source
Tom Cruise	About $600 million	Film salaries and backend deals
George Clooney	About $500 million	Casamigos sale and acting
Brad Pitt	About $400 million	Acting and Plan B Entertainment
Mark Wahlberg	About $400 million	Acting, producing and business
Robert Downey Jr.	About $300 million	Marvel films

Figures are widely cited estimates as of 2026 and are approximate. What sets Clooney apart is that his largest single gain came from a business sale, not a film role.

Frequently asked questions

How much is George Clooney worth?

About $500 million, according to the widely reported estimate cited by major outlets in 2026.

How much did George Clooney make from Casamigos?

Diageo bought Casamigos in 2017 for $700 million upfront plus up to $300 million in bonuses. Clooney held about a third of the company, and Forbes said the sale drove most of his $239 million income in 2017–2018.

How much was George Clooney paid for ER?

About $11 million in total over five seasons, from 1994 to 1999.

How much did George Clooney get paid for Wolfs?

The New York Times reported $35 million each for Clooney and Brad Pitt. Clooney said the real figure was several million dollars lower.

Where does George Clooney live?

Mainly at his wine estate near Brignoles, in Provence, France. He also owns homes on Lake Como in Italy, in Sonning Eye in England and in New York.

How many Oscars has George Clooney won?

Two: Best Supporting Actor for Syriana and Best Picture as a producer of Argo.

Sources: Forbes (2018 highest-paid actors list), The New York Times, Parade, Men’s Journal, Broadway Journal, Playbill, The Real Deal, Associated Press, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.