George Clooney and Amal Clooney are fiercely private about their family life and keep their twins, Alexander and Ella, away from the public eye.
“I have a goal of trying to protect; I don’t want pictures of my kids,” George said in a 2024 interview with GQ. “We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there.”
However, their penchant for privacy hasn't stopped them from gushing about their kids and their roles as parents, frequently sharing sweet anecdotes about their twins.
Ella and Alexander were born on June 6, 2017, at St. Mary's Hospital in London, where Prince William and Princess Kate also welcomed all three of their children.
George, who became a dad for the first time at 56, declared at the time: "It was wild. You know, everything is conceptual until it's real. It's like, 'Yeah, we're going to be parents, yeah.' And all of a sudden you go: 'Holy [expletive]. I'm a parent!'"
George and Amal's twins are growing up to be quite the international set. Their dad is originally from Lexington, Kentucky, while their mom was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but was raised and completed her undergraduate education in England.
© GettyThe Clooneys own several homes across Los Angeles, Mexico, London, and France, though their most famous and beloved property is the 18th-century, 25-room Lake Como estate, Villa Oleandra, that George purchased in 2002.
Though the actor definitely has the cred to proclaim himself a Laglio local, his twins beat him to it because of their fluency in Italian, which neither George nor Amal speaks.
The doting dad hilariously revealed to Jimmy Kimmel in 2020: "We did a really dumb thing, which is, they speak fluent Italian," adding: "I don't speak Italian, my wife doesn't speak Italian, so we've armed them with a language."
© w8mediaBut while they've received the same upbringing, Alexander and Ella are very different, with George telling GMA star Michael Strahan — a fellow father to twins: "When you have twins, and you're raising [them] the same time, the same way, and they're completely different human beings, you realize how little say you have in who they are."
Here's everything you need to know about how different they are.
Alexander, 9
© GettyAlexander is the older of the twins, born one minute and 49 seconds before his sister arrived, weighing five-and-a-half pounds according to an interview George gave The Hollywood Reporter.
Alexander certainly has a sense of humor, as George revealed he was prone to knocking on his bedroom door, and when he asks who it is, he responds: "'It is I, Alexander Clooney.'" This, naturally, cracks up the actor who revealed the adorable routine on WTF with Marc Maron.
The nine-year-old appears to be relatively oblivious to his father's fame, to the point that the Batman-obsessed boy didn't bat an eyelid when he found out George once played the superhero. He responded to his dad: "'Not really.' And I was like, ‘You have no idea how accurate you are.’”
Ella, 9
© Getty ImagesElla was born slightly later than her brother, weighing four-and-a-half pounds, and according to the actor, she looks just like her mom. "My daughter looks exactly like Amal," he said, adding: "She has big beautiful eyes … It's incredible."
While she may be a bit quieter than her brother, Ella has inherited her father's love of pranks, as George told Entertainment Tonight: "My daughter has now picked up the mantle. She used to think it was really gross, all the things we did, but then she saw how many laughs Alexander got and now she's taken it up, too."
The little one also loves fashion, as her father described her as being "up in my wife's closet with purses going, 'Mine!'" He jokingly added: "So I see this is going to be a fun, fun life for me."
