Brad Pitt

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt in 2007
Born William Bradley Pitt
December 18, 1963 (1963-12-18) (age 44)
Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Spouse(s) Jennifer Aniston (2000-2005)
Domestic partner(s) Angelina Jolie (2005-present)

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. He became famous during the mid-1990s after starring in several major Hollywood films.[2] Pitt received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.[2]

Pitt is consistently cited by popular media as one of the most attractive men alive[2][3][4][5] and is regarded as a Hollywood A-lister.[6] His former marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and current relationship with Angelina Jolie have been widely covered in the world media.[2] He is the father of four children with Jolie, one biological, all of whom have also received media coverage. Since his connection with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues, both domestically and internationally.

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Early life

Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner.[7] Along with his brother Doug and sister Julie Neal, he grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. Pitt was raised a Baptist.[8][9] He attended Kickapoo High School, where he was involved in sports, debating, student government, and acting. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.[1]

Career

Moderate success

Brad Pitt, who has been named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine
Brad Pitt, who has been named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine

In 1988, Pitt had his first starring role, in The Dark Side of the Sun, where he played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The movie was shot in Yugoslavia in the summer of 1988. However, with editing nearly complete, war broke out and much of the footage was lost; the film was released years later.[10] Pitt was then cast in the television movie Too Young to Die?, about an abused teenager given the death penalty for murder. Pitt played the part of a drug addict, Billy Canton, who took advantage of a runaway played by Juliette Lewis.[10]

In 1991, Pitt starred, along with Vera Martins, as Joe Maloney in Across the Tracks, in which he portrayed a high school runner with a difficult criminal brother played by Ricky Schroder.[10] Pitt attracted broader public attention from a supporting role in Thelma & Louise, where he played a small-time criminal drifter who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis, which showed Pitt topless and wearing a cowboy hat, has been referred to as "iconic", often cited as the moment that defined Pitt as a "sex symbol".[1][10]

After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred alongside Catherine Keener and Nick Cave in the low budget, Tom DiCillo-directed 1991 film Johnny Suede, as an awkward dreamer who aspired to be a big-haired rock star.[10] After appearing in Cool World,[10] Pitt starred in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It in 1992, for which Pitt learned fly fishing by casting off of Hollywood buildings.[10] In 1993 came Kalifornia, a road movie in which he played a scruffy serial killer alongside Juliette Lewis and X-Files actor David Duchovny.[10]

1994-2000: Mainstream success and acclaim

In 1994, Pitt played vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the movie adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire.[10] The role of the eighteenth-century vampire required Pitt to endure several hours of make-up being applied every day to achieve the characteristic white skin; Pitt wore a pair of green contact lenses and vampire fangs to complete the appearance. Pitt's co-stars included the eleven-year-old Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.[10] He then starred in Legends of the Fall and Se7en.[10] In Se7en, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman as the police detective David Mills who hunts a serial killer played by Kevin Spacey.[10] Pitt was then nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Jeffrey Goines in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.[11]

In 1997, Pitt starred alongside Harrison Ford as the IRA terrorist Rory Devany in The Devil's Own, the first of several films where Pitt used an Irish accent in his performance.[12] That same year he played the main role of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.[10] Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded a great deal of trekking and mountain climbing, by rock climbing in California and the Alps with his co-star, David Thewlis. Due to the themes of Tibetan nationalism in the film, the Chinese government banned Pitt and Thewlis from entering China for life.[13][14]

In 1998, Pitt starred as the main character in the film Meet Joe Black, where he played a personification of Death inhabiting the body of a young man in order to learn what it is like to be human.[10] The film gave Pitt another chance to work alongside Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, with whom he had previously worked on Legends of the Fall.[10] In 1999, Pitt starred in Fight Club, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel. Directed by Se7en's David Fincher, Pitt portrayed the highly complex and colorful character of Tyler Durden.[10]

In 2000, Pitt played the role of Mickey, an Irish Gypsy boxer in the gangster movie Snatch, alongside Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones and Benicio del Toro. The film was a wild caper involving a diamond heist, the Russian and American mafia and the shady underground world, that saw Pitt brought in as a ringer by two failing promoters. The movie saw him moving on from the Northern Irish accent he attempted in The Devil's Own; Pitt created a just-barely-intelligible accent suggesting the Irish Gypsies, referred to as Pikeys in the movie. Pitt continued to train for the role, and honed his boxing skills at Ricky English's gym in Watford.[15]

2000s: Ascension to the A-list

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, cast of Ocean's Eleven and director Steven Soderbergh in December 2001
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, cast of Ocean's Eleven and director Steven Soderbergh in December 2001

In 2000, Pitt filmed the Cold War thriller Spy Game in which he starred alongside veteran actor Robert Redford, who played the role of his mentor.[16] In 2001, Pitt worked with long-time friend Julia Roberts in the comical road movie The Mexican.[17] At the end of the year, Pitt finished filming Ocean's Eleven with George Clooney and Matt Damon, a remake of the 1960s version which starred Frank Sinatra.[18]

Since then, he has starred in numerous films, including Ocean's Twelve[18] and the epic Troy, based on the Iliad, in which he portrayed the legendary hero Achilles. During film production of Troy, Pitt injured his Achilles tendon, delaying production for several weeks.[19] In 2005, Pitt starred in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which he and Angelina Jolie played husband and wife assassins.[20]

In March 2006, it was announced that Paramount had purchased the rights to The Sparrow for Pitt's production company, Plan B, and that Pitt would be playing the lead role of Sandoz.[21] In June 2006 it was announced that Paramount and Plan B will be working on a new zombie film called World War Z, based on the book of the same name by Max Brooks.[22]

Pitt made his return to Hollywood in late 2006 with Alejandro González Iñárritu's critically acclaimed Babel, starring alongside Cate Blanchett.[23] The movie garnered a total of seven Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, one of which was a Golden Globe nomination for Pitt as Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.[24] That same year, he also produced the eventual Best Picture winner, The Departed.[25] In 2005, he produced and starred in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, directed by Andrew Dominik, but the film was not released until late 2007.[26]

Other projects

Brad Pitt signing autographs for troops during his December 7, 2001 visit to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey
Brad Pitt signing autographs for troops during his December 7, 2001 visit to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey

Pitt has appeared in television commercials designed for the Asian market, advertising such products as Edwin Jeans.[27] He also appeared in a Heineken commercial which aired during the 2005 Super Bowl; it was directed by David Fincher, who directed Pitt in the feature films Se7en and Fight Club.[28]

Together with Jennifer Aniston and Paramount Pictures head Brad Grey, Pitt founded the production company Plan B.[29] Aniston is no longer a partner in the company, although she is still attached to many projects that were set up before her divorce from Pitt.[30] The company produced the blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, starring Johnny Depp, as well as The Departed and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.[31]

Pitt made a guest appearance in an eighth-season episode of Friends, as a man who has a grudge against Aniston's character Rachel Green,[32] lent his voice on an episode of King of the Hill, where he played Boomhauer's brother, Patch Boomhauer,[33] and appeared on an episode of MTV's Jackass, in which he took part in a staged abduction of himself. In a later Jackass episode, he and several cast members ran wild through the streets of Los Angeles in gorilla suits.[34]

Pitt has been an active supporter of research into diseases such as AIDS. He is the narrator of the acclaimed Public Television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge,[35] which discusses current important global health issues.[35] Pitt is behind Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur, along with George Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub.[36]

Pitt is also a knowledgeable fan of architecture, particularly that of Frank Lloyd Wright, and has helped the National Trust for Historic Preservation raise money.[37]

Personal life

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pitt dated several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head Of The Class),[38][39][40] Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),[40] Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia), who at sixteen was ten years his junior when they started dating,[38][41][40] and Gwyneth Paltrow (Se7en),[38][40] with whom he had a much-publicized engagement. Pitt also dated actresses Sinitta and Thandie Newton.[40]

Marriage to Jennifer Aniston

Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her during an enclosed wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000.[1][42] The couple ensured that the ceremony would be a private affair by hiring hundreds of guards to block any attempts of invasion by the paparazzi; just one wedding picture was released to the media.[43] Not long after the wedding, Pitt sued Damiani International, the company which had made the wedding ring he gave Aniston, for selling replica "Brad and Jennifer" rings. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. Under the settlement reached in January 2002, Pitt would design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston would model in ads, and the company would stop selling the copies.[44][45]

Though their marriage was for years considered the rare Hollywood success, rumors of marital problems began circulating, and the Pitts announced their separation on January 7, 2005.[42] As Pitt's marriage to Aniston drew to a close, he and actress Angelina Jolie were involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal in which Jolie was often painted as the "other woman", largely due to their chemistry during the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. While Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, speculations continued to mount throughout 2004 and early 2005. In an interview with Ann Curry in June 2005, Jolie explained, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."[46]

In early 2005, the concept of a "troubled marriage" - and arguably his own - inspired Pitt to cooperate with photographer Steven Klein for a photoshoot entitled "Domestic Bliss" for W magazine.[47] The spread showed Pitt and Jolie as a 1963 married couple with children. Pitt expressed the desire to tell a darker, truer tale, one that explored the "unidentifiable malaise" that often haunts a seemingly happy couple. "You don't know what's wrong", he remarked, "because the marriage is everything you signed up for."[47] For her part, Aniston later cited the shoot as evidence that Pitt has "a sensitivity chip that's missing."[48]

Aniston filed for divorce on March 25, 2005;[49] the divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.[50]

Relationship with Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in an event in September 2007
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in an event in September 2007

One month after Aniston filed for divorce, in April 2005, a set of paparazzi photos emerged that seemed to confirm the rumors of a relationship between Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie. The photos, which were reportedly sold for $500,000, showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya.[51] During the summer, the pair were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina". Two months later, the highly anticipated July 2005 issue of W magazine hit newsstands, featuring Pitt and Jolie posed as a couple.[47]

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia,[52] where Jolie adopted her second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara;[52] later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt the child together.[53] In December 2005, it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children as his own; per the legal requirements, classified advertisements in the Los Angeles paper Daily Commerce announced the name change request.[54] On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request, and the children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt".[55]

On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People magazine that she was pregnant with Pitt's child.[56] On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia by a scheduled caesarean section. Pitt confirmed that their newly-born daughter will have a Namibian passport, and Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most expensive celebrity image of all time.[57][58] All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.[59]

Following media reports suggesting Jolie might be pregnant again, she attended the Independent Spirit Awards 2008 in a close-fitting dress, indirectly confirming those rumors. People quoted a source who confirmed her pregnancy.[60] In May 2008, Jolie confirmed on the Today show that they were expecting twins.[61]

Life in New Orleans

The family divides its time between Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana.[62] In an interview with the Times-Picayune, while filming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Pitt said:

“ I can't describe why we're allowed to live a more normal life (in New Orleans). Living in the French Quarter is a thrill for us. We have some semblance of real family life. People have been very, very gracious with us. If we're on the front deck, people go by and say, 'Hi.' Then they go on their way, very friendly.[63] ”

In December 2006, Pitt gathered a group of housing professionals together in the Hurricane Katrina-stricken New Orleans to begin planning a project that Pitt calls Make It Right, with the goal of financing and constructing 150 new houses in New Orleans' Ninth Ward.[64] The houses are being designed with an emphasis on sustainability and affordability, with the hope that the project can and will be replicated throughout the city. Thirteen architectural firms are involved in the project, many of which are donating their services. Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed to matching $5 million in donations.[65]

Religious views

In an October 7, 2007 interview, Pitt told PARADE that he is no longer a fundamentalist Christian.[66] In this interview, Pitt said:

“ I always had a lot of questions about the world, even in kindergarten. A big question to me was fairness. If I'd grown up in some other religion, would I get the same shot at Heaven as a Christian has? My mom would come into my room and talk to me. I was very fortunate to have that dialogue with her, but in high school I started to realize that I felt differently from others. ”

Popular esteem

In 1995, Pitt was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. Pitt has also twice been named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.[2]

Pitt was also prominently featured in the December 2006 Art Issue of Vanity Fair. He appears on the cover in nothing but a pair of white boxers. The cover promotes an article on the Robert Wilson video portraits, a production of LAB HD that includes numerous celebrities and noted personalities. This cover has drawn criticism from Pitt because, although he had signed a release for the image, he did not expect it to end up on the cover of Vanity Fair more than a year later. The video portrait, which represents Pitt's first effort in avant-garde cinema, was exhibited at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.[67]

In 2007, Pitt was listed among artists and entertainers as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. He was credited, along with his best friend Tiago Miranda Paulo, with using "his star power to get people to look at places and stories that cameras don't usually catch."[68]

Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
1987 No Way Out Officer at party
No Man's Land Waiter
Less Than Zero Partygoer
Cutting Class Dwight Ingalls
1990 Too Young to Die? Billy Canton
1991 Across the Tracks Joe Maloney
Thelma & Louise J.D.
Johnny Suede Johnny Suede
1992 Contact
Cool World Detective Frank Harris
A River Runs Through It Paul Maclean
1993 Kalifornia Early Grayce
True Romance Floyd
1994 The Favor Elliott Fowler
Interview with the Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac
Legends of the Fall Tristan Ludlow
1995 Se7en David Mills
Twelve Monkeys Jeffrey Goines Won - Golden Globe
1996 Sleepers Michael Sullivan
1997 The Devil's Own Francis "Frankie" Austin McQuire/Rory Devaney
Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer
The Dark Side of the Sun Rick
1998 Meet Joe Black Joe Black/Man in the Coffee Shop
1999 Being John Malkovich Himself Cameo
Fight Club Tyler Durden
2000 Snatch Mickey O'Neil
2001 The Mexican Jerry Welbach
Spy Game Tom Bishop
Ocean's Eleven Rusty Ryan
2002 Full Frontal Brad/Himself
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Brad, Bachelor #1
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Sinbad Voice Actor
Abby Singer Himself Cameo
2004 Troy Achilles
Ocean's Twelve Rusty Ryan
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith John Smith With Angelina Jolie
2006 Babel Richard
2007 Ocean's Thirteen Rusty Ryan
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Jesse James
2008 Burn After Reading Chad Feldheimer awaiting release
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Benjamin Button post-production
2009 Tree of Life Mr. O'Brien filming

Producer

Awards and nominations

Awards won:

Preceded by
Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
(as Sexiest Couple Alive in 1993)
(no award given in 1994)
 People's Sexiest Man Alive
1995
 Succeeded by
Denzel Washington
Preceded by
Richard Gere		 People's Sexiest Man Alive
2000
 Succeeded by
Pierce Brosnan
Awards
Saturn Award
Preceded by
Gary Sinise
for Forrest Gump		 Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1995
for Twelve Monkeys		 Succeeded by
Brent Spiner
for Star Trek: First Contact
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by
Martin Landau
for Ed Wood		 Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1996
for Twelve Monkeys		 Succeeded by
Edward Norton
for Primal Fear
Venice Film Festival
Preceded by
Ben Affleck
for Hollywoodland		 Best Actor
2007
for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford		 Succeeded by
TBD

Awards nominations:

See also

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Further reading

  • Robb, Brian J. Brad Pitt: The Rise to Stardom. Plexus, 2002. ISBN 0859652882
  • Taylor, Nancy. Brad Pitt. Pearson Education Limited, 2000. ISBN 058240830X
  • Guzzetti, Paula. Brad Pitt. Silver Burdett Pr, 1998. ISBN 0382397959
  • Dempsey, Amy. Superstars of Film: Brad Pitt. Facts on File, 1997. ISBN 0791046494
  • Newman, Bruce. Brad Pitt: A Biography. Time, 1999.

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NAME Pitt, William Bradley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitt, Brad
SHORT DESCRIPTION American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH