Transformation

George Clooney knows how to keep it simple. Although he may have experimented with long manes and mullets in the eighties and nineties, the Kentucky-born actor has since led the way in good old-fashioned male grooming. (Certainly, his ER-era Caesar haircut launched a thousand boyfriend makeovers!) Now 51 and looking like a modern-day Cary Grant, we can only agree what his late aunt, Hollywood legend Rosemary Clooney once said: "[George has] that hoo-hah quality. He's okay, that kid." Is he ever!

"I was pretty happening because I had good TV hair," Clooney has said of his early success on shows such as The Facts of Life.