George Clooney seems to have found a new leading lady.
Clooney, 52, and Alamuddin, 36, were photographed walking together on March 13 on the beach in Seychelles (where Both looked appropriately breezy; Alamuddin wore a straw hat and a colorful beach cover-up, while Clooney sported a T-shirt and shorts. He had what looked like a beer in his hand, and she sipped from some kind of tropical fruit.
When the Gravity star was spotted holding hands with lawyer Amal Alamuddin at a special screening of his new film, The Monuments Men, at the White House on Feb. 18, the two certainly looked like more than just friends.
So who is the beautiful, successful London lawyer who seems to have struck up a budding romance with one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood?
Here are five things to know about Amal Alamuddin.
1. She's multilingual.
Alamuddin, 36, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, according to a bio posted by her alma mater, New York University School of Law. Now based in London, she is fluent in French, Arabic and English.
2. She's a lawyer and activist.
Alamuddin is an accomplished barrister who specializes in international law, human rights, extradition and criminal law for the Doughty Street Chambers firm in London. In 2011 she began to represent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his fight against extradition by Sweden. She also has been appointed to numerous U.N. commissions and is an advisor to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Syria.
3. She has impressive credentials.
Alamuddin earned an English law degree at Oxford University and went on to study at the NYU School of Law in 2000. For one semester, she worked as a student law clerk for now-Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was then a judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After graduating from NYU, she joined the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and practiced U.S. and international law there for three years, according to her NYU bio.
When the Gravity star was spotted holding hands with lawyer Amal Alamuddin at a special screening of his new film, The Monuments Men, at the White House on Feb. 18, the two certainly looked like more than just friends.
So who is the beautiful, successful London lawyer who seems to have struck up a budding romance with one of the most eligible bachelors in Hollywood?
Here are five things to know about Amal Alamuddin.
1. She's multilingual.
Alamuddin, 36, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, according to a bio posted by her alma mater, New York University School of Law. Now based in London, she is fluent in French, Arabic and English.
2. She's a lawyer and activist.
Alamuddin is an accomplished barrister who specializes in international law, human rights, extradition and criminal law for the Doughty Street Chambers firm in London. In 2011 she began to represent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his fight against extradition by Sweden. She also has been appointed to numerous U.N. commissions and is an advisor to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Syria.
3. She has impressive credentials.
Alamuddin earned an English law degree at Oxford University and went on to study at the NYU School of Law in 2000. For one semester, she worked as a student law clerk for now-Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was then a judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After graduating from NYU, she joined the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and practiced U.S. and international law there for three years, according to her NYU bio.
