George Clooney
AGE: 45
OCCUPATION: Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
PRO: Winner of an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, Clooney is noted for his environmentalism—he will be among the first 100 owners of the battery-operated Tesla Roadster sportscar—and advocating a resolution to the Darfur conflict.
CON: While he is often associated with the Golden Age of television and moviemaking, his latest project, the vintage throwback The Good German, received very mixed reviews. And does the world really need an Ocean's Thirteen?