10 Things You May Not Know About Amal Clooney

1/10 Birth and Relocation to UK

Amal, whose name means “hopes” in Arabic, was born in Lebanon in 1978 but she her and family fled the country due to the Lebanese Civil War when she was just two years of age.

Amal, along with her three siblings, settled in Buckinghamshire after relocating to Britain.

2/10 Education

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Amal earned degrees from two prestigious universities – a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from St Hugh’s College at Oxford University and a Master of Laws from New York University’s School of Law.

In New York, Amal received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law and also spent a semester working in the office of lawyer and jurist Sonia Sotomayor – then a United States Court of Appeals judge.

3/10 Legal Work

Amal started her legal career in New York City in 2002, where she worked for the firm Sullivan and Cromwell LP and specialised in criminal defence before moving to The Hague, Netherlands, to complete work at the International Courts of Justice.

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4/10 Notable Clients

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Amal has represented several high-profile figures during her legal career, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad.

5/10 Marriage to George Clooney

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Amal met Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney through a mutual friend in July 2013 and the pair got engaged the following year.

The pair got married in a private ceremony in Venice, Italy in September 2014, with guests in attendance including Matt Damon, Cindy Crawford and Emily Blunt and John Krasinski.

6/10 Children

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Amal and George welcomed twins Alexander and Ella in June 2017 and have taken strict measures to keep their children out of the spotlight. Explaining why they gave their children traditional names, George told AARP Magazine in 2021: “I didn’t want, like, weird-ass names for our kids.

“They’re already going to have enough trouble. It’s hard being the son of somebody famous and successful.”

8/10 Championing Women

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Amal has spoken of how she wishes to mentor other women who want to enter the legal profession.

She told Vogue in 2018: “I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn’t have enough confidence to try for something (and) almost didn’t have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn’t know anyone else who’d done it or other people who make me question it.”

9/10 Speaks Several Languages

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Amal is fluent in both English and French, and can also speak conversational Arabic.

10/10 Party Animal

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Despite her high-profile job, Amal is still capable of letting her hair down.

Her mother Baria Alamuddin told Vogue, “All my family, we are party animals. Amal partied hard and worked hard.”