Hollywood star George Clooney, his wife Amal and their two children have officially become French citizens, an official decree shows.
PARIS: Hollywood star George Clooney has officially become a French citizen.
An official decree published on Monday shows his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children have also been granted citizenship.
The publication in France’s government gazette confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to in early December.
At the time, he hailed French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from paparazzi.
“I love the French culture, your language, even if I’m still bad at it after 400 days of courses,” the 64-year-old actor told RTL radio.
“Here, they don’t take photos of kids. That’s number one for us,” he said.
The now dual US-French citizen has a long attachment to Europe.
He owns an estate in Italy’s Lake Como region, purchased in 2002.
He and Amal, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer, also own a historic manor in England.
Their property in southern France was purchased in 2021.
The couple are parents to eight-year-old twins.
Clooney told RTL that their French home “is where we’re happiest”.
Clooney is also a director and producer with two Academy Awards.
He is not the only Hollywood luminary to seek French nationality.
US director Jim Jarmusch said on Friday he plans to apply for French citizenship.
“I would like a place that will allow me to escape from the United States,” he told France Inter radio.
