Born in San Francisco

May 31, 1930

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret Ruth (née Runner), a factory worker, and Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker and migratory worker. Eastwood has Scottish, English, Dutch and Irish ancestry.

Oakland Technical High School

June 1, 1949

The family settled in Piedmont, California during his teens, and he graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1949.

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

January 1, 1958

In 1958, he got his first starring role in a feature film, Ambush at Cimarron Pass, which he has dismissed as "probably the lousiest Western ever made.

Rawhide

January 1, 1959

Eastwood then got a huge break when he was cast as the second lead in the long-running television series, Rawhide.

Coogan's Bluff

January 1, 1968

In the same year, he starred in Don Siegel's Coogan's Bluff, in which he played a lonely deputy sheriff who came to the big city of New York to enforce the law in his own way.

Married Maggie Johnson

January 1, 1968 - May 22, 1972

Eastwood, who has been married twice, has five daughters and two sons by five different women: Kimber (born 1964), with Roxanne Tunis; Kyle (born in 1968) and Alison (born on May 22, 1972), with ex-wife Maggie Johnson

Paint Your Wagon

January 1, 1969

In 1969, Eastwood began to branch out. Paint Your Wagon was a musical starring Eastwood and top-billing fellow non-singer Lee Marvin.

Play Misty for Me

January 1, 1971

Eastwood directed and starred in the thriller, Play Misty for Me.

Dirty Harry

January 1, 1972

But it was his portrayal of the hard-edged police inspector Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry that propelled Siegel's most successful movie at the box-office. Dirty Harry is arguably Eastwood's most memorable character.

The Gauntlet

January 1, 1977

In 1977, Eastwood starred in The Gauntlet, in which he played a down and out cop assigned to escort a prostitute from Las Vegas to Phoenix to testify against the mob. This would be the first of 5 movies to co-star his then girlfriend, Sondra Locke.

Every Which Way But Loose

January 1, 1978

In 1978, he starred in Every Which Way But Loose in an uncharacteristic and offbeat comedy role.

Escape from Alcatraz

January 1, 1979

In 1979, Eastwood played yet another memorable role as the prison escapee Frank Morris in the fact-based movie Escape from Alcatraz. Morris was an escape artist who was sent to Alcatraz in 1960, which was, at the time, one of the toughest prisons in America. Morris devised a meticulous plan to escape from "The Rock" and, in 1962, he and two other prisoners broke out of the prison and entered San Francisco Bay.

Mayor of Carmel

April 8, 1986

Eastwood made one successful foray into elected politics, becoming the Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (usually abbreviated to Carmel; population 4,000), a wealthy small town and artist community on the Monterey Peninsula, for one term. On election day, April 8, 1986, with double the usual voter turnout, Eastwood obtained 72.5% of the vote and was elected to a position that paid $200 per month.

Unforgiven

January 1, 1992

In the self-directed 1992 film, Unforgiven, taking on the role of an aging ex-gunfighter long past his prime.

In the Line of Fire

January 1, 1993

The following year, Eastwood played a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the thriller In the Line of Fire (1993) directed by Wolfgang Petersen. This film was a blockbuster and among the top 10 box-office performers in that year.

The Bridges of Madison County

January 1, 1995

He continued to expand his repertoire by playing opposite Meryl Streep in the love story The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Based on a best-selling novel, it was also a hit at the box-office.

Married Dina Ruiz

December 12, 1996 - Now

Eastwood has a daughter, Morgan (born December 12, 1996), with current wife Dina Ruiz.

Million Dollar Baby

January 1, 2004

He found critical acclaim with Million Dollar Baby in 2004, winning 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Eastwood was nominated for Best Actor (the award went to Jamie Foxx).

California Hall of Fame

December 6, 2006

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Clint Eastwood into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.