Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. Throughout his five-decade career, he has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, two Cannes Film Festival awards, and five People's Choice Awards, among other accolades. Eastwood served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 1986–1988, where he supported small business interests and environmental protection. Twice married and the father of seven children, Eastwood is also known for his strong passion for jazz and golf. Following his breakthrough role as Rowdy Yates in the television series Rawhide (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the laconic Man With No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s, and as Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films of the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, and several others as tough-talking, no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood is also notable for his comedic efforts in Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and its sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980), his two highest-grossing films after adjusting for inflation.Throughout his career, which has spanned seven decades, Eastwood has received five Academy Awards including the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, two Cannes Film Festival awards, and five People's Choice Awards, among other accolades.

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Francesca Eastwood -- DEATH THREATS After Destroying Birkin Bag

Francesca Eastwood
DEATH THREATS After Destroying Birkin Bag

Clint Eastwood's daughter has been bombarded with vicious online death threats after she publicly demolished a $100,000 Birkin bag in the name of art, TMZ has learned. Francesca… READ MORE >

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Clint Eastwood's Daughter -- BURNS $100k Handbag ... For the Hell of It!

Clint Eastwood's Daughter
BURNS $100k Handbag ... For the Hell of It!

Clint Eastwood's daughter must have waaaaaay too much money to blow, 'cause the reality TV star just lit a $100,000 Birkin bag on fire ... all for the sake of a photo shoot. 19-year-old Francesca… READ MORE >

Exclusive, Fashion, Celebrity Justice, You Might Want to Rethink, Photo Galleries - 4 days ago
Clint Eastwood -- We Haven't Had a Great President Since Truman!

Clint Eastwood
We Haven't Had a Great President Since Truman!!

Clint Eastwood tells TMZ ... he hasn't been impressed with an American president in quite a while ... dating all the way back to one Harry S. Truman. Eastwood was leaving the Beverly Wilshire… READ MORE >

Politix, Exclusive - 100 days ago
Clint Eastwood -- Go Ahead Punk, Make My Reality Show

Clint Eastwood
Go Ahead Punk ... MAKE MY REALITY SHOW

Clint Eastwood is going the way of the Kardashians ... TMZ has learned his wife and two of his daughters are currently shooting a family reality show intended to air on the E! network. Sources… READ MORE >

TV, Exclusive - 168 days ago
Clint Eastwood Photobombs Wynn Wedding Pic

Clint Eastwood Photobombs Wynn Wedding Pic

Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn got hitched yesterday to Andrea Wynn -- and look who popped up in the official wedding photo ... Clint Eastwood.The wedding really made his day.  READ MORE >

You Might Want to Rethink - 395 days ago
The House that 80-Year-Old Clint Eastwood Built

The House that 80-Year-Old Clint Eastwood Built

Clint Eastwood has spent more than a year building a $20 million 15,000 square foot estate in Carmel, California ... but is a project that could take years to complete a good idea for an… READ MORE >

TMZ TV, Deadline - 467 days ago
Eastwood vs. Penn: Who'd You Rather?

Eastwood vs. Penn: Who'd You Rather?

Actors turned directors Clint Eastwood, 79, and Sean Penn, 49, toughed it out at the same event in Palm Springs last night.Question is ... See Also Pam vs. Carmen: Who'd You Rather?  READ MORE >

Who'd You Rather? - 874 days ago
Eastwood vs. Ambrosio: Who'd You Rather?

Eastwood vs. Ambrosio: Who'd You Rather?

Even 79-year-old Oscar winning actor/director Clint Eastwood's jaw drops at the sight of supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio.Question is ... See Also Cox vs. Fergie: Who'd You Rather?  READ MORE >

Who'd You Rather? - 944 days ago
Eastwood Spawn Crosses the Border Line

Eastwood Spawn Crosses the Border Line

Asking a Spanish speaking valet at Mr. Chow if her car was stolen and taken to "México" ... probably ain't the most PC way to complain about the wait -- even if she is Clint Eastwood's… READ MORE >

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Clint Makes Our Day

Clint Makes Our Day

At 78-years-young, Clint Eastwood isn't exactly in TMZ TV's demographic -- but he definitely saw it last night when the good folks at Madeo put it on every TV in the joint.But even we're not as… READ MORE >

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