Clint Eastwood

**Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr.** (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, director, producer, and composer. He won two Academy Awards for Best Director for his movies _Unforgiven_ (1992) and _Million Dollar Baby_ (2004). He was also nominated for his movies _Mystic River_ (2003), _Letters from Iwo Jima_ (2006) and _American Sniper_ (2014).

## Early life

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California on May 31, 1930. He was nicknamed "Samson" by the hospital nurses as he weighed  at birth. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry. He was raised in Piedmont, California. He studied at Piedmont Junior High School and at Oakland Technical High School.

## Career

He has appeared in many movies since the 1950s. The most famous are the Dollars trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns (1964–1966), _Dirty Harry_ movie series as Harry Callahan (1971–1988), _Any Which Way You Can_ (1979) and similar movies. Eastwood also won critical acclaim as a director with the movies _Unforgiven_ (1992), _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil_ (1996), _Space Cowboys_ (2000), _Mystic River_ (2003), and _Million Dollar Baby_ (2005). In recent years, Eastwood directed biopic movies such as _American Sniper_, _Sully_, and _Richard Jewell_.

He won election as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in April 1986. He earned $200 per month in that position which he donated to The Carmel Youth Centre. While in office, he helped to make ice cream legal to eat on city streets, added public restrooms to the public beach, and a city library annex building was built. He served for two years and did not wish to run for a second term. In 2001, Governor Gray Davis appointed him to the California State Park and Recreation Commission.

## Personal life

Eastwood was married to Maggie Johnson from 1953 until they divorced in 1984. They had two children. Then he was married to Dina Ruiz since 1996. They have one child. He now lives with his family in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He was the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea for two years, starting in 1986.

## Awards

|Year|Award|Film|Result|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1992|Best Director|_Unforgiven_||
|Best Picture|_Unforgiven_|||
|Best Actor|_Unforgiven_|||
|1994|Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award|||
|2003|Best Director|_Mystic River_||
|Best Picture|_Mystic River_|||
|2004|Best Director|_Million Dollar Baby_||
|Best Picture|_Million Dollar Baby_|||
|Best Actor|_Million Dollar Baby_|||
|2006|Best Director|_Letters from Iwo Jima_||
|Best Picture|_Letters from Iwo Jima_|||

## Infobox (musical artist)

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- **label**: Warner Records, Warner Bros.
- **years active**: 1963–present


## Infobox (officeholder)

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- **office**: 30th Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, Carmel-by-the-Sea
- **term start**: April 8, 1986
- **term end**: April 12, 1988
- **predecessor**: Charlotte Townsend
- **successor1**: Jean Grace


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Clint Eastwood
- **image**: Clint Eastwood at 2010 New York Film Festival.jpg
- **caption**: Eastwood in 2010
- **birth name**: Clinton Eastwood Jr.
- **birth place**: San Francisco, California, U.S.
- **years active**: 1954–present
- **organization**: Malpaso Productions
- **party**: Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian (2008–present)
- **otherparty**: Republican Party (United States), Republican (1951–2008)
- **children**: At least 8, including Kyle Eastwood, Kyle, Alison Eastwood, Alison, Scott Eastwood, Scott and Francesca Eastwood, Francesca
- **signature**: Signature of Clint Eastwood.svg