Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide. He rose to fame for playing the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti westerns during the late 1960s, and as Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Eastwood was born in San Francisco to Margaret Ruth Eastwood (née Runner), a factory worker, and Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker and migrant worker. Eastwood was raised in a working class home with his younger sister, Jeanne. His family moved often as his father worked at jobs along the West Coast. The family finally settled in Piedmont, California. Eastwood is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.

Eastwood married Maggie Johnson on December 19, 1953, six months after they met on a blind date. While separated from Johnson, Eastwood had an affair with dancer Roxanne Tunis in, with whom he had his first child, Kimber Tunis (born June 17, 1964).

After reconciling with Johnson, they had two children, Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) and Alison Eastwood (born May 22, 1972). Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another long separation, but the divorce was not finalized until May 1984.

Eastwood began dating actress Sondra Locke in 1975, and the two lived together for fourteen years. During the last four years of their relationship, Eastwood had an affair with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves and conceived a son, Scott Reeves (born March 21, 1986), and a daughter, Kathryn Reeves (born February 2, 1988).

In 1990, Eastwood began living with actress Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (born August 7, 1993). The couple ended their relationship in early 1995.

Eastwood subsequently began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor, whom he met in an interview in 1993. They married on March 31, 1996 in a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas. The two have one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).