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William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry.

Brad Pitt
Pitt in 2019
Born	William Bradley Pitt December 18, 1963 (age 59)[1] Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Missouri
Occupations	Actor film producer
Years active	1987–present
Works	Full list
Spouses	Jennifer Aniston ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2005)​ Angelina Jolie ​ ​ (m. 2014; div. 2019)​ [2]
Children	6
Relatives	Douglas Pitt (brother)
Awards	Full list

Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the drama films A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and the horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in David Fincher’s crime thriller Seven (1995) and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995). The latter earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and his first Academy Award nomination.

Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh’s heist film Ocean’s Eleven (2001), and reprised his role in its sequels. He cemented his leading man status starring in blockbusters such as the historical epic Troy (2004), the romantic crime film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), the horror film World War Z (2013), and the action film Bullet Train (2022). Pitt also starred in the critically acclaimed films Fight Club (1999), Babel (2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), Inglourious Basterds (2009), The Tree of Life (2011), and The Big Short (2015). Pitt received Academy Award nominations for his performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011), and he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

In 2001, Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.^[3] He produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, while others such as The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015) were nominated for the award.

For many years, he was cited as the world’s most attractive man by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of wide publicity. He is divorced from actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. Pitt has six children with Jolie, three of whom were adopted internationally.

Early life

William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor.^[4] The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Douglas Mitchell (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969).^[5] Born into a conservative Christian household,^[6][7] he was raised as Southern Baptist and later «oscillate[d] between agnosticism and atheism.»^[8] He later reconciled his belief in spirituality.^[9] Pitt has described Springfield as «Mark Twain country, Jesse James country,» having grown up with «a lot of hills, a lot of lakes.»^[10]

Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams.^[11] He participated in the school’s Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.^[12] Following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising.^[13] As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down. He loved films—»a portal into different worlds for me»—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made.^[14][15] Two weeks short of completing the coursework for a degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.^[14] He has named Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, and Mickey Rourke as his early acting heroes.^[16]

Career

Early work (1987–1993)

While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London.^[12][17] His acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out (1987), No Man’s Land (1987) and Less than Zero (1987).^[12][18] In May 1987, he made his television debut in a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.^[19] In November of the same year, Pitt had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom Trial and Error^[20][21] and the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.^[22] He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall).^[23] Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.^[24] In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S. co-production The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) was his first leading film role, starring as a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. The film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997.^[12] Pitt made two motion picture appearances in 1989: the first in a supporting role in the comedy Happy Together; the second a featured role in the horror film Cutting Class, the first of Pitt’s films to reach theaters.^[22] He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddy’s Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and (for a second time) Growing Pains.^[25]

Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of a young runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die?, the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder. Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: «Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent John Cougar Mellencamp, he’s really scary.»^[26] The same year, Pitt co-starred in six episodes of the short-lived Fox drama Glory Days and took a supporting role in the HBO television film The Image.^[27] His next appearance came in the 1991 film Across the Tracks; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder.^[28] The same year he featured in a Levi’s jeans TV commercial based around the song «20th Century Boy» which played in the background.^[29] After years of supporting roles in film and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in Ridley Scott’s 1991 road film Thelma & Louise.^[27] He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with Davis has been cited as the event that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.^[22][30] After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star,^[31] and the 1992 live-action/animated fantasy film Cool World,^[22] although neither furthered his career, having poor reviews and box office performance.^[32][33]

Pitt took on the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford.^[34] His portrayal of the character was described by People‘s Janet Mock as a career-making performance,^[35] proving that Pitt could be more than a «cowboy-hatted hunk.»^[36] He has admitted to feeling under pressure when making the film^[5] and thought it was one of his «weakest performances … It’s so weird that it ended up being the one that I got the most attention for.»^[5] Pitt believed that he benefited from working with such a talented cast and crew. He compared working with Redford to playing tennis with a superior player, saying «when you play with somebody better than you, your game gets better.»^[35][36] In 1993, Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis for the road film Kalifornia. He played Early Grayce, a serial killer and the abusive husband of Lewis’ character, in a performance described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as «outstanding, all boyish charm and then a snort that exudes pure menace.»^[37] Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing comic relief to the action film.^[38] He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.^[39]

Breakthrough (1994–1998)

In 1994, Pitt portrayed the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 novel of the same name.^[40] He was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.^[40] Despite his winning two MTV Movie Awards at the 1995 ceremony,^[41] his performance was poorly received. According to the Dallas Observer, «Brad Pitt […] is a large part of the problem [in the film]. When directors play up his cocky, hunkish, folksy side […] he’s a joy to watch. But there’s nothing about him that suggests inner torment or even self-awareness, which makes him a boring Louis.»^[42] Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (1994),^[43] based on a novel by the same name by Jim Harrison, set in the American West during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Portraying Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant,^[44] Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category.^[45] Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt’s brothers. Although the film’s reception was mixed,^[46] many film critics praised Pitt’s performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, «Pitt’s diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it’s a shame the film’s superficiality gets in his way.»^[47] The Deseret News predicted that Legends of the Fall would solidify Pitt’s reputation as a lead actor.^[48]

In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer who preys on people he considers guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins.^[49] Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.^[50] He expressed his intent to move on from «this ‘pretty boy’ thing […] and play someone with flaws.»^[51] His performance was critically well received, with Variety saying that it was screen acting at its best, further remarking on Pitt’s ability to turn in a «determined, energetic, creditable job» as the detective.^[52] Seven earned $327 million at the international box office.^[32] Following the success of Seven, Pitt played psychotic anarchist Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam’s 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys. The movie received predominantly positive reviews, with Pitt praised in particular. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Twelve Monkeys «fierce and disturbing» and remarked on Pitt’s «startlingly frenzied performance», concluding that he «electrifies Jeffrey with a weird magnetism that becomes important later in the film.»^[53] He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film^[45] and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.^[54]

The following year, he appeared in the legal drama Sleepers (1996), based on Lorenzo Carcaterra’s novel of the same name.^[55] The film received mixed reviews.^[56] In the 1997 film The Devil’s Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany,^[57] a role for which he was required to learn an Irish accent.^[58] Critical opinion was divided on his accent; «Pitt finds the right tone of moral ambiguity, but at times his Irish brogue is too convincing – it’s hard to understand what he’s saying», wrote the San Francisco Chronicle.^[59] The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt’s accent over the movie.^[60] The Devil’s Own grossed $140 million worldwide,^[32] but was a critical failure. Later that year, he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.^[61] Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis.^[62] Pitt had the lead role in 1998’s fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black. He portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man to learn what it is like to be human.^[63] The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt’s performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt was unable to «make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity.»^[64] Roger Ebert remarked, «Pitt is a fine actor, but this performance is a miscalculation.»^[65]

Rise to prominence (1999–2003)

In 1999, Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in Fight Club,^[66][67] a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher.^[68] Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling.^[69] To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended.^[70] While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the film explored not taking one’s aggressions out on someone else but to «have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end.»^[71] Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival.^[72] Despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole,^[73][74] Pitt’s performance was widely praised. Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film,^[75] while Variety remarked upon Pitt’s ability to be «cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than […] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise«.^[76] In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000.^[77]

Pitt was cast as an Irish Traveller boxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie’s 2000 gangster film Snatch.^[78] Several reviewers were critical of Snatch; however, most praised Pitt.^[79] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Pitt was «ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can’t understand him», going on to say that, before Snatch, Pitt had been «shackled by roles that called for brooding introspection, but recently he has found his calling in black comic outrageousness and flashy extroversion;»^[80] while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that «Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role».^[81] The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican,^[82] a film that garnered a range of reviews^[83] but enjoyed box office success.^[32] Pitt’s next role, in 2001’s $143 million-grossing Cold War thriller Spy Game,^[32] was as Tom Bishop, an operative of the CIA’s Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford’s character.^[84] Mark Holcomb of Salon.com enjoyed the film, although he noted that neither Pitt nor Redford provided «much of an emotional connection for the audience».^[85]

On November 22, 2001, Pitt made a guest appearance in the eighth season of the television series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married at the time.^[86] For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.^[87] In December 2001, Pitt played Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean’s Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original. He joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, and Julia Roberts.^[88] Well received by critics, Ocean’s Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide.^[32] Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV’s reality series Jackass in February 2002, first running through the streets of Los Angeles with several cast members in gorilla suits,^[89] and in a subsequent episode participating in his own staged abduction.^[90] In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney’s directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.^[91] He took on his first voice-acting roles in 2003, speaking as the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas^[92] and playing Boomhauer’s brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.^[93]

Worldwide recognition (2004–2008)

Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy, and reprising his role, Rusty Ryan, in the sequel Ocean’s Twelve. He spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad.^[94] An on-set injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the picture for several weeks.^[95] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post stated that Pitt excelled at such a demanding role.^[96] Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures.^[97] Ocean’s Twelve earned $362 million worldwide,^[32] and Pitt and Clooney’s dynamic was described by CNN’s Paul Clinton as «the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford.»^[98] In 2005, Pitt starred as John Smith in the Doug Liman-directed action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which a bored married couple discover that each is an assassin sent to kill the other. The feature received reasonable reviews but was generally lauded for the chemistry between Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who played his character’s wife Jane Smith. The Star Tribune noted that «while the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars’ thermonuclear screen chemistry».^[99] Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.^[100]

For his next film, Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s multi-narrative drama Babel (2006).^[101] Pitt’s performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was credible and gave the film visibility.^[102] Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career.^[103] The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival^[104] and was later featured at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.^[105] Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe.^[45] That same year, Pitt’s company Plan B Entertainment produced The Departed, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Pitt was credited on-screen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win.^[106]

Reprising his role as Rusty Ryan in a third picture, Pitt starred in 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen.^[107] While less lucrative than the first two films, this sequel earned $311 million at the international box office.^[32] Pitt’s next film role was as American outlaw Jesse James in the 2007 Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, adapted from Ron Hansen’s 1983 novel of the same name.^[108] Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by Pitt’s company Plan B Entertainment, the film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival,^[109] with Pitt playing a «scary and charismatic» role, according to Lewis Beale of Film Journal International,^[110] and earning Pitt the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.^[111] He eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.^[112] As of January 2019, it was his own favorite of his films.^[113]

Pitt’s next appearance was in the 2008 black comedy Burn After Reading, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it «a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy»,^[114] noting that Pitt’s performance was one of the funniest.^[114] He was later cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher’s 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a loosely adapted version of a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who is born an octogenarian and ages in reverse,^[115] with Pitt’s «sensitive» performance making Benjamin Button a «timeless masterpiece», according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun.^[116] The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination,^[117] as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination,^[45][118] all in the category for Best Actor. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide.^[32]

Established actor (2009–present)

Pitt’s next leading role came in 2009 with the Quentin Tarantino-directed war film Inglourious Basterds, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.^[119] Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France.^[120] The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide,^[32] and garnered generally favorable reviews.^[121] The film received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt.^[122][123] He next voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the 2010 animated feature Megamind.^[124] Pitt produced and appeared in Terrence Malick’s experimental drama The Tree of Life, co-starring Sean Penn, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[125] In a performance that attracted strong praise, he portrayed the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane in the drama Moneyball, which is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael Lewis.^[126] Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt.^[127]

His next role was as mob hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik’s 2012 Killing Them Softly, based on the novel Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins.^[128] In 2013, Pitt starred in World War Z, a thriller about a zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks’s novel of the same name. Pitt also produced the film.^[129] World War Z grossed $540 million at the box office worldwide,^[32] becoming Pitt’s highest grossing picture.^[130] Next in 2013, he produced, and played a small role in, 12 Years a Slave, a historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.^[131] The film received critical acclaim^[132] and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Picture.^[133] Also in 2013, Pitt had a supporting role in Ridley Scott’s The Counselor.^[134] Plan B Entertainment landed its first television series on the 2013–2014 schedule, as their joint venture with ABC Studios, the sci-fi/fantasy drama Resurrection, was picked up by ABC.^[135]

Pitt starred in Fury, a World War II film directed and written by David Ayer, and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, and Jason Issacs.^{[136][137][138]} The film was released on October 17, 2014.^[136] By the end of its run, Fury proved to be a commercial and critical success; it grossed more than $211 million worldwide^[32] and received highly positive reviews from critics.^[139] In 2015, Pitt starred opposite his wife, Jolie, in her third directorial effort, By the Sea, a romantic drama about a marriage in crisis, based on her screenplay. The film was their first collaboration since 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Pitt’s next role came with the biographical comedy-drama The Big Short, which he also produced and also co-starred alongside Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling. The film was a commercial and critical success. It went on to gross over $102 million worldwide^[140] and received positive reviews from critics.^[141][142] The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, earning Pitt his third Academy Award nomination as producer. In 2016, Pitt starred in Robert Zemeckis’s romantic thriller Allied, in which he plays an assassin who falls in love with a French spy (played by Marion Cotillard) during a mission to kill a German official in World War II.^[143][144] In 2017, he starred in the Netflix satirical war comedy War Machine,^[145] which he also produced.^[146] Pitt played a recurring role as a weatherman on the late-night talk show The Jim Jefferies Show throughout 2017.^[147]

A 2017 sequel to World War Z was in announced in 2016,^[148] before the film was briefly delayed, then confirmed to be directed by David Fincher and then ultimately shelved due to budget issues.^[149][150] Pitt starred as Cliff Booth, a stunt double, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, reuniting with DiCaprio after The Departed, which Pitt produced and DiCaprio starred in.^[151] For his performance in the film, he received awards for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.^[152] This is the second Academy Award for Brad Pitt, his first that he received for acting.^[153] In 2019, he also starred in James Gray’s deep space epic Ad Astra, in which he played Roy McBride, a space engineer searching the galaxy for his father.^[154] Pitt’s performance was praised as one of his career-best turn,^[155][156] delivering a performance «that weaponizes passivity into a lethal form of self-defense».^[157] On April 25, 2020 Pitt portrayed Dr. Anthony Fauci in the cold open on Saturday Night Live earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.

In 2021, Pitt entered the recording business by creating a company with French record producer Damien Quintard. Set in Pitt’s Chateau Miraval in South of France, Miraval Studios will re-open in 2022 after two decades of inactivity. The previous version of the studio was one of the most iconic studios in the world, producing the records for Pink Floyd, the Cranberries, AC/DC, Sade and Muse, among others.^[158]

In 2022, Pitt starred in Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch,^[159] and reunited with his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Margot Robbie in Babylon, directed by Damien Chazelle.^[160] In September 2021, it was revealed that he will reteam with George Clooney in a thriller film written and directed by Jon Watts.^[161] On January 5, 2022, he signed a deal with Apple to create a racing film on Formula One, directed by Joseph Kosinski,^[162] for which he will earn $30 million.^[163]

Humanitarian and political causes

Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election,^[164] in which he supported John Kerry.^[164][165] Later in October, he publicly supported the principle of public funding for embryonic stem-cell research. «We have to make sure that we open up these avenues so that our best and our brightest can go find these cures that they believe they will find», he said.^[166] In support of this he endorsed Proposition 71, a California ballot initiative intended to provide state government funding for stem-cell research.^[167]

Pitt at the ‘Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict’ in 2014

Pitt supports One Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world.^[168][169] He narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues.^[170] The following year Pitt and Jolie flew to Haiti, where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean.^[171] In May 2007, Pitt and Jolie donated $1 million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region.^[172] Along with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention on stopping «mass atrocities».^[173]

Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture,^[174] even taking time away from film to study computer-aided design at the Los Angeles offices of renowned architect Frank Gehry.^[175] He narrated e2 design, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.^[176] In 2000, he co-authored an architectural book on the Blacker House with the architects Thomas A. Heinz and Randell Makinson.^[177] In 2006, he founded the Make It Right Foundation, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct 150 sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.^[178][179]

The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms donating their services.^[180][181] Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed $5 million in donations.^[182] The first six homes were completed in October 2008,^[183] and in September 2009 Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated.^[184][185] Pitt met with U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in March 2009 to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities.^[186]

In September 2006, Pitt and Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world.^[187] The foundation made initial donations of $1 million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders,^[188] followed by an October 2006 donation of $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an organization created in memory of the late American journalist Daniel Pearl.^[189] According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $8.5 million into the foundation in 2006; it gave away $2.4 million in 2006^[190] and $3.4 million in 2007.^[191] In June 2009, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to a U.N. refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants.^[192] In January 2010, the foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.^[193][194]

Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage.^[195] In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he would marry Jolie when everyone in America is legally able to marry.^[196] In September 2008, he donated $100,000 to the campaign against California’s 2008 ballot proposition Proposition 8, an initiative to overturn the state Supreme Court decision that had legalized same-sex marriage.^[197] In March 2012, Pitt was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black’s play, 8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Judge Vaughn Walker.^[198]

In September 2012, Pitt reaffirmed his support for Obama, saying, «I am an Obama supporter and I’m backing his U.S. election campaign.»^[199] In October 2020, he narrated an advertisement for Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.^[200]

Personal life

Relationships

From the late 1980s to early 1990s, Pitt was romantically involved with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head of the Class),^[201] Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),^[201] and Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia).^[35] Subsequently, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.^[201]

Pitt met actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998; they married in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000.^[202] In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced they had decided to separate. Two months later, Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.^[203] Pitt and Aniston’s divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005.^[203] Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston had an acrimonious relationship, Pitt said in a February 2009 interview that he and Aniston «check in with each other», adding that they were both big parts of each other’s lives.^[204]

During Pitt’s divorce proceedings, his involvement with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted media attention. Jolie and Pitt stated that they fell in love on the set^[205][206] and that there was no infidelity.^[205] In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie, and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the press interpreted the pictures as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie. Throughout 2005, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple «Brangelina».^[207] On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt’s child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time.^[208] Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April 2012 after seven years together.^[209] They were legally married on August 14, 2014, in Los Angeles. They had their wedding in a private ceremony in Château Miraval, France on August 23, 2014.^[210] On September 19, 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.^[211] On April 12, 2019, the court declared Jolie and Pitt legally single.^[212]

In 2022, Pitt began dating Ines de Ramon, a jewelry designer who is 29 years younger than him.^[213]

Children

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, Zahara Marley.^[214][215] On December 3, 2005, Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of Zahara, and Jolie’s first adopted child, Maddox Chivan.^[216] On January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Jolie’s request to change the children’s surnames from «Jolie» to «Jolie-Pitt».^[217] The adoptions were finalized soon after.^[218]

Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would qualify for a Namibian passport.^[219] The couple sold the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images; the North American rights were purchased by People for over $4.1 million, while Hello! obtained the British rights for approximately $3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children.^[220] Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it marked the first time an infant was recreated in wax by Madame Tussauds.^[221]

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted three-year-old Pax Thien from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.^[222] Pitt adopted Pax in the United States on February 21, 2008.^[223]

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins.^[224] She gave birth to son Knox Léon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France.^[225] The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.^[226][227] The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.^[226][228]

In September 2016, the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigated Pitt for child abuse following an incident on a plane, where Pitt was accused by an anonymous person of being «verbally abusive» and «physical» towards one of his children.^[229] In its final report on the investigation, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services ruled that Pitt did not physically abuse any of his children. Pitt was also cleared by the FBI of any wrongdoing.^[230]

Since Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt on September 19, 2016, they have been embroiled in a custody battle over their children. Jolie had full custody until May 2021 when Pitt was granted joint custody, over four and a half years after proceedings began.^[231] However, in July, Los Angeles superior court judge John W. Ouderkirk was removed from the case due to concerns over his impartiality as he did not sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt’s lawyers. This resulted in the custody arrangement reverting to a previous November 2018 agreement where Jolie has primary physical custody while Pitt has «custodial time» with their minor children.^[232][233]

Alcoholism

In September 2016, Pitt got sober and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.^[234] In December 2019, he wrote an article for Interview in which he talked with his Legends of the Fall and Meet Joe Black costar and fellow recovering alcoholic Anthony Hopkins about their experiences with addiction and recovery.^[235]

Cannabis use

Pitt has admitted to using cannabis in the late ’90s as a way to deal with his increasing fame.^[236][237] According to Pitt: «I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut.»^{[236][237][238]} He reduced his cannabis use and focused on his work after a trip to Morocco, where he witnessed extreme poverty and suffering.^[236][237]

Prosopagnosia

In 2022, Pitt said that he had struggled for years to recognize people’s faces due to prosopagnosia (face blindness).^[239] In a 2013 interview, he said that his inability to recognize people’s faces had become so severe that he often wanted to stay home.^[240] Formally, however, Pitt has not been diagnosed with prosopagnosia.^[239][241]

Artworks

Pitt has an interest in art, learned pottery,^[242] and has created sculptures. Nine of his sculptures were exhibited together with works by musician Nick Cave and artist Thomas Houseago at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland in 2022-2023.^[243][244]

Public image

Pitt has been cited as a sex symbol by many sources, including Empire, who named him one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history in 1995.^{[12][245][246]} The same year, he was named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive, an accolade he received again in 2000.^[245][247] Pitt appeared on Forbes‘ annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities from 2006 to 2008 placing at numbers 20, 5 and 10, respectively.^{[248][249][250]} In 2007, he appeared on the Time 100 list, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by Time magazine.^[251] The magazine credited Pitt for using «his star power to get people to look [to where] cameras don’t usually catch».^[251] He was again included on the Time 100 in 2009, this time in the «Builders and Titans» list.^[252]

Beginning in 2005, Pitt’s relationship with Angelina Jolie became one of the world’s most reported celebrity stories. After Jolie was confirmed to be pregnant in early 2006, the intense media hype surrounding the couple reached what Reuters, in a story titled «The Brangelina fever,» called «the point of insanity».^[253] To avoid media attention, the couple flew to Namibia for the birth of their daughter Shiloh, which was described by a paparazzi blog as «the most anticipated baby since Jesus Christ.»^[254] Similarly, intense media interest greeted the announcement of Jolie’s second pregnancy two years later; for the two weeks Jolie spent in a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the promenade to report on the birth.^[255]

In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Pitt, together with Jolie, were found to be the favorite celebrity endorsers for brands and products worldwide.^[256] Pitt has appeared in several television commercials. For the U.S. market, he starred in a Heineken commercial aired during the 2005 Super Bowl; it was directed by David Fincher, who had directed Pitt in Seven, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.^[257] Other commercial appearances came in television spots including Acura Integra, in which he was featured opposite Russian model Tatiana Sorokko,^[258] as well as SoftBank, and Edwin Jeans.^[259] In 2014, Pitt’s stylish villain roles inspired Vijay in playing a similar character in Indian film Kaththi.
^[260] On June 2, 2015, the minor planet 29132 Bradpitt was named in his honor.^[261]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Brad Pitt at Curlie
• Brad Pitt at IMDb
• Brad Pitt at Biography
• Brad Pitt at Rotten Tomatoes
• Brad Pitt on Charlie Rose
• Brad Pitt at Huffington Post
• Works by or about Brad Pitt in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Brad Pitt collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Brad Pitt collected news and commentary at The Guardian  

Brad Pitt: biography

The real name of the famous American actor Brad Pitt is William Bradley Pitt. He was born on December 18, 1963 in a small town Shawnee, Oklahoma. A guy grew up in an ordinary religious family of Americans. Brad’s father William Pitt worked as a manager in a large cargo transportation company, and his mother Jane Etta Hillhouse was a teacher.

But the early biography of Brad Pitt began in Springfield, where the family moved after his birth. The brother of Brad Dag was born 3 years later and in 3 years his sister Julia was born.

At school, young Pitt was actively engaged in sports, went to a music club and was a participant of student administration. After graduation, the young man became a student of Columbia University, where he studied journalism with a focus on advertising. However, Brad did not work as a journalist. After graduation from the university, the guy decided to conquer Hollywood. At that time William Bradley changed his name a little bit.

When the inexperienced Brad Pitt came to Hollywood, he started working as a driver. After that, he was offered to become a carrier of furniture. But this work did not satisfy the guy. Therefore, after few months, he becomes an employee in a network of popular restaurants called «El Pollo Loco». Pitt did not receive a beautiful uniform, but the chicken suit, in which he invited passers-by to the restaurant, became his everyday clothes. 

 Films 

Pitt did not give up for a minute and stubbornly took acting courses. The beginning of his professional career was the role in the series «Dallas». Soon after «Dallas», Brad appeared in episodes of several series: «Tales from the Crypt,» «Another World,» «Head of the class,» and «21 Jump Street», in which Johnny Depp starred at the beginning of his acting career.

In 1988 Brad Pitt finally got one of the main roles in the film «The Dark Side of the Sun». While this film was voiced and edited, in Yugoslavia, where the film was shot, the civil war began. Therefore, the film was released only 10 years later.

Brad Pitt received his first large fee of $ 12,000 for the role of Dwight Ingalls in the comic school horror «Cutting Class». The star of the school, the basketball player looked very realistic in the film, according to the audience.

The next few years the creative biography of Brad Pitt was added by such roles as the drug addict and procurer Billy in the drama «Too Young to die», the thief Jay Di in «Thelma and Louise”, where he starred in a bed scene without doubles with Gina Davis, and a carefree musician in the biopic «Johnny suede «. Pitt starred in the role of a detective Frank Harris along with Kim Basinger in the semi-animated experimental film “Cool World” (1992).

For the next role in the drama «A River flows through it» the actor had to learn how to fish.

In the screen version of the novel by Anne Rice «Interview with the Vampire» (1995) Brad Pitt appeared in the role of a young aristocrat turned into a vampire. He starred along with already very popular favorites of the audience Antonio Banderas and Tom Cruise. But it did not stop Brad from winning women’s hearts.

A stunning duo of Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman came out in the thriller «Seven.» Actor had to say the word «fuck» 74 times in this film.

In 1995, for the role in the film «12 Monkeys» Brad Pitt was nominated for Oscar. The actor had to stop smoking to match the role — his speech in the film had to be very quick and slurred. The same year he was officially included in the list of «25 sexiest actors» in the history of cinema. Since that moment, the American actor has become the idol of millions of women from all over the world.

Brad Pitt reached an amazing growth in his acting career in 1996. Firstly, he starred in the movie «Sleepers». The picture is based on real events and brought the actor huge fame.

After that Pitt appears in the film «Seven Years in Tibet» and becomes the universally recognized sex symbol of Hollywood. Brad and David Thewlis are banned from entering the People’s Republic of China because of starring in the film «Seven Years in Tibet».

In the mystical drama «Meet Joe Black» he portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man.

After a short break in 1999, Pitt returns to the movie and plays one of the main roles in the film «Fight Club». This picture made Brad popular not only in the US, but throughout the world.

One of the highest grossing movies of 2000 was «Snatch» by Guy Ritchie, in which Pitt appeared in the title role thin and in tattoos, but had superhuman strength.

The actor got many successful star tandems: Brad starred with Julia Roberts in the melodrama «he Mexican», with Robert Redford in «Spy Game», with George Clooney and Matt Damon in «Ocean’s Eleven». In 2000, Pitt starred in one of the episodes of the series «Friends» (9 episode 8 season).

The movie «Troy» collected at the box office half a billion dollars. For the role of the Greek hero Achilles Brad spent six months training on his muscles and learned the art of swordplay. The film raised Brad Pitt’s career to a new level.

Brad Pitt’s fees for title roles are growing every year. The main character of the film «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» brought the actor the biggest cash prize.

In the comedy «Burn After Reading» the actor plays the role of a fool Chad Feldheimer. In «Inglourious Basterds» by Quentin Tarantino the star plays Aldo Apache, a brutal hunter of the Nazis.

Brad Pitt has been nominated many times for the famous Golden Globe Award for the best male role in both the first and second plan. Also in 2012 he was nominated for Oscar. Throughout his acting career, Pitt has been repeatedly awarded the title of world sex symbol, and has won the hearts of many women from all over the world.

The last works of Brad Pitt in the movie were the films «12 years of slavery», «Fury», «Voyage of time», «The counselor», «By the sea», «The big short».

The actor stars in the film «Allied». Here Brad Pitt plays along with Marion Cotillard in the title role. The film is about the post-war 1940s, in which Pitt plays the American counterintelligence agent, and Cotillard is a Frenchwoman who is a Nazi spy. At the end of 2016, the film should come out on the screens.

 Producer

Since 2002 Brad Pitt is the owner of his own production company “Plan B” Entertainment. It is a joint company with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Gray. The company produced the film «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» and many other films.

But his first «Oscar» Brad Pitt received only in 2014. The US film academy called the historical drama «12 years of slavery» the best film of the year. Pitt is one of the film’s producers and plays a supporting role in it.

Personal life

Brad’s first love was his classmate at school. Trying to win the heart of the girl, the guy painted the girl’s name with yellow paint on the snow under her windows. She took such a gesture with a cold heart and called him boring and stupid.

The personal life of Brad Pitt has always been under the sights of paparazzi. Brad Pitt fell in love with his partner in the film «Too Young to die» Juliet Lewis. Their romance lasted 3 years. Brad could not stand the jealousy of the girl, and after their breakup Juliet tried to commit a suicide, but she did not succeed.

During shooting the famous thriller «Seven» in 1995, Pitt began dating with his partner in the Gwyneth Paltrow. In 1996 they had an engagement, after which young people began to think about the wedding. But in June 1997 the couple announced their breakup, because of Gwyneth’s mother. She didn’t like Brad because of his manners, speech, clothes. Gwyneth tried to change him. Brad realized that they were too different and it maked no sense to change himself.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston met during shooting in the series «Friends.» Jennifer won the heart of the actor with her cheerful behavior. In summer, 2000 they were officially married. Bred Pitt shared in many interviews that Jen is the woman of his dreams. She accepted him as he is, without trying to remake, unlike Gwyneth.

In this relationship Brad became stylish and his best and most expensive roles. In their luxurious house in Beverly Hills the couple wanted to have a baby, but in 2005 the couple broke up.

Before the divorce the actor began relationship with the most beautiful actress in Hollywood Angelina Jolie, who was his partner in the famous film «Mr. and Mrs. Smith.» Jennifer felt that the family was falling apart, but Brad denied that he had relationship with Jolie.

Therefore, a photo from Africa shocked her. In the picture, Angelina and Brad relaxed on the beach, playing with Maddox Jolie ‘s adopted son. After that Brad and Angelina told about their relationship.

In 2006 Angelina gave birth to their daughter Shiloh Nouvel was born, and in July 2008 twins, the girl Vivien Marchlin and the boy Knox Leon were born.

Also Brad Pitt became the father for all the adopted children — Jolie Maddox Shivan, Pax Thien and Zahara Marley.

According to the information that appeared in the media in 2016, the couple adopted the seventh child. Angelina Jolie visited the refugee camp in Syria, where she met a two-year-old boy Mussa. She decided to adopt the boy.

On August 23, 2014 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt officially registered their marriage. There were only 22 people at the wedding. All the funds raised for the sale of photos from the celebration were spent on charity.

The Divorce with Jolie

In the mid-September, 2016 the whole world was shocked with the news about the divorce of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The exact cause of the divorce is not known, now the couple is actively engaged in the division of property.

Angelina asks the court for custody of all children without the obligation of the former spouse to pay child support. The actress doesn’t plan to forbid Brad to see the children. According to some sources Maddox and Shylo Jolie-Pitt expressed a desire to live with their father.

The couple called the cause of their divorce «irreconcilable differences.» But there are a lot of rumors and versions on this issue: from the upbringing of their children, the character of Jolie to the bad habits of Pitt and his relations with the actress Marion Cotillard.

On the 19th of March the insiders reported that Angelina and Brad had found a compromise and decided to divorce at last. Though, the questions on the custody of children and property division haven’t been solved yet, in a short time both of them will change their marital status.

Brad Pitt now

Brad Pitt is a sex symbol of Hollywood and one of the most popular actors. In 2016 he starred in the film «The Allies».

In 2017, two premiere with Brad Pitt are planned — the continuation of the fantastic action movie «World war Z» and the drama «War Machine”.

Filmography

• «Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire’s Life Chronicle»
• «Seven Years in Tibet»
• «Fight club» • «Ocean’s Eleven» 
• «Mr. and Mrs. Smith»
• «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button»
• «Killing them softly»
• «World war Z»
• «Fury»
• «12 years of slavery»
• «The Counselor»

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Brad Pitt is an actor.
Брэд Питт — актёр.

Even Jennifer Aniston, whom Brad Pitt left because she did not want kids, now sighs in interviews, as she nears 42, that she has stopped waiting for Prince Charming, and that she, too, could be ready to adopt and go it alone.
Даже Дженифер Анистон, которую Брэд Питт оставил из-за того, что она не хотела заводить детей, сейчас, приближаясь к 42 годам, вздыхает в интервью, что уже не ждёт прекрасного принца и что, возможно, она тоже готова усыновить ребёнка и справляться в одиночку.

Mm, eat your heart out, Brad Pitt.
Удавись слюной, Бред Питт.

So, effectively we created a digital puppet that Brad Pitt could operate with his own face.
Вообщем, фактически мы создали цифровую марионетку, которой Брэд Пит мог управлять с помощью своего лица.

Brad Pitt: Well, I heard momma and Tizzy whisper, and they said I was gonna die soon, but . maybe not.
Брэд Пит: Ну, я слышал, как мамуля и Тиззи шептались, и они говорили, что я должен вскоре умереть. Но. может быть нет.

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Trivia (132)

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#23) (1995).

Turned down a role as an astronaut in Аполлон 13 (1995) to accept his role in Семь (1995).

Posed for a campus calendar in college.

A girl went to Pitt’s Hollywood-area home shortly after midnight January 7, 1999 and crawled in through an open window, dressed herself in his clothes and stayed for 10 hours before the alarm went off. Athena Rolando, 19, was ordered not to contact the actor and to stay 100 yards away from him for three years (1999).

Ranked #32 in Empire (UK) magazine’s «The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time» list. [October 1997]

Banned from entering China because of his role in Семь лет в Тибете (1997).

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1997).

Donated $100,000 to the Discovery Center — a children’s learning museum in his hometown of Springfield, Missouri. [June 1996]

Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1996).

His first starring role in a feature film was in The Dark Side of the Sun (1988), shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988. As editing neared completion, civil war broke out in the region and much of the footage was lost. In 1996, after a five-year search, all of the lost footage was found and returned to producer Andjelo Arandjelovic, who is working on getting a distribution deal. Pitt was paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks. He played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic Sea to search for a cure for a rare skin disease.

Purchased a mansion in Southern California from the actress who portrays Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson). He reportedly paid $1.7 million for the house. This mansion is filled with antiques and has a «vampirish» look to it (1996).

Had to learn to fly-cast for his role in Там, где течёт река (1992). He practiced on top of buildings in Hollywood. During these practices, he frequently hooked himself in the back of his head.

Voted «Best Actor» by viewers of MTV’s The Big Picture (1988) (1995).

Was a journalism major in college with an advertising focus.

Listed as one of twelve «Promising New Actors of 1991» in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 43 (1991).

Attended and graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri (1982).

Dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism (Columbia, Missouri).

In high school, he was a member of the golf, swim and tennis teams.

Belonged to the Key Club and the Forensics Club in High School.

Listed in People Weekly magazine’s «Most Intriguing People» list (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996 issue).

Has a younger brother, Doug Pitt (born in 1966), and a younger sister, Julie Pitt (born in 1969).

He was considered for the lead role in Матрица (1999), which went to Keanu Reeves.

Has his teeth capped.

(July 18, 2001) Sued Damiani International, the company which created the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. The company has since been selling replicas and indicating Pitt/Aniston’s endorsement of the ring.

He and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston spent $1 million on their wedding (2000).

For the last couple of years, he has been the spokesman for Edwin Jeans commercials in Japan. In 2001, he was also the face of the ads for a current Japanese canned coffee which is named Roots. Was replaced in these television commercials (2002) by Kevin Costner.

Did a television commercial for Toyota (Altis model) that aired only in Asia. The car became very popular and its sales resulted in Toyota getting an almost 32% share of the passenger car market.

Has a home at Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey.

Auditioned for the role of J.D. in the black comedy Смертельное влечение (1988) and, though he showed talent, casting directors thought him to be «too sweet» for the role, which later went to Christian Slater. He would later go on to a very similar role in the horror film Cutting Class (1989).

Is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. The Xi Xi chapter at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

After watching Карты, деньги, два ствола (1998), Pitt asked director Guy Ritchie if he could be in his next film. He could not master the English accent, so Ritchie gave him the role of Mickey the One Punch Pikey, an Irish fighter, in Большой куш (2000).

With Brad Grey’s departure for Paramount Pictures and after the divorce settlement with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, he now solely owns Plan B Entertainment.

Tore his Achilles tendon during the production of Троя (2004), in which he plays, coincidentally, Achilles. His injury caused the production of Двенадцать друзей Оушена (2004) to be pushed back to April 2004 (2003).

Is the first man ever to be named «Sexiest Man Alive» twice by People magazine (1994 and 2000).

Showed his parents the «Chemical Burn» scene to convince them not to watch Бойцовский клуб (1999).

Got into better shape and eventually gained over 20 pounds of muscle for Троя (2004).

He was ranked #6 on VH1’s «100 Hottest Hotties».

His high school nickname was Brad the «Pitt-bull».

He took Greek language lessons in secret to surprise his then-wife Jennifer Aniston who is of Greek ancestry.

Voted #1 in Company magazine’s annual «100 Sexiest Men» poll (2004).

Announced on January 7, 2005 that he and Jennifer Aniston are separating after 4 1/2 years of marriage.

Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. He was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Actor category for his performance in the film Троя (2004). However, he did not receive a nomination.

Premiere magazine ranked him as #50 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).

A short while after completing Там, где течёт река (1992), he fled to Amsterdam where he briefly resided for three months by himself in a small basement apartment before returning to the United States to film Калифорния (1993).

He and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston met on a blind date, which was arranged by their agent.

Owns and plays Taylor Guitars.

In 2001, renowned architect Frank Gehry renovated the wine cellar in the home in which Pitt and wife Jennifer Aniston resided. Pitt subsequently did an informal apprenticeship in Gehry’s Los Angeles office.

Owns the rights to the Hong Kong thriller Двойная рокировка (2002). He wanted it to be remade with he and Tom Cruise in the leading roles. The movie was eventually remade as Отступники (2006). Pitt served as a producer on the movie.

On the invitation of Virgin CEO Richard Branson, he visited over 100 orphans affected by HIV at a facility run by The Salvation Army in South Africa as well as personally meeting Nelson Mandela and discussing Mandela’s 46664 campaign (named for his prison ID number) to call attention to South Africa’s devastating AIDS epidemic. After South Africa, he then flew to Ethiopia on behalf of DATA, a third-world lobby group co-founded by U2’s Bono. [November 2004]

As of 2014, has appeared in 10 movies with a number in the title — though only two of them use an actual number rather than spelling the word out: Семь (1995), which is a combination of the two, and 12 лет рабства (2013). He has appeared in one movie with zero in the title, one with the number two in the title, three with the number seven in the title, one with the number eleven and three with number twelve.

Is a huge fan of MTV’s reality show Чyдаки (2000). He even asked the cast if he could join them during one of their stunt jokes. He eventually made an appearance dressed in an ape outfit, in order not to be recognized, which would have ruined the joke.

Broke his arm during the filming of Семь (1995). The injury was written into the movie.

Wanted to play Darcy in Невеста & предрассудки (2004), but was not able to work out the filming dates.

Ranked #15 on Premiere magazine’s 2006 «Power 50» list. Had ranked #31 (2005).

The first commercial that Brad Pitt ever booked was through Matrix Talent Agency, Los Angeles. His agent was Linda Olhava, sister of film director Jody Lee Olhava.

Has Single Engine Land pilot license.

Occasionally flies a Cessna 208B Caravan belonging to Chivan Productions.

Initially did not want to appear in Мистер и миссис Смит (2005), although he was the one who gave the screenplay to director Doug Liman.

Originally cast as Colin Sullivan in Отступники (2006), but later dropped out. He continued to produce the film under his (and his then wife Jennifer Aniston’s) production company, Plan B.

His first job was dancing in a chicken suit to draw in customers at an El Pollo Loco restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

He and girlfriend Angelina Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy named Pax Thien from Vietnam (born November 29, 2003). [March 2007]

Voted #6 in Elle (France) magazine’s «15 Sexiest Men» poll. [June 2007]

Mentioned in the song «High School Never Ends» by Bowling for Soup, as «the quarterback».

Used to act at the Vandevort Theater in Springfield, Missouri. He still visits and donates to the theater.

Donated five million dollars of his own money to rebuild homes in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

In 2005, he earned $4,500,000 for a Heineken commercial that aired during the 2005 Super Bowl.

In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated his earnings for the year to be $35 million.

Ranked #10 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list. His girlfriend, Angelina Jolie, ranked #3.

In November 2005, he visited Pakistan with Angelina Jolie to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In 2006, Jolie and Pitt also went to Haiti where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean.

Was officially in the BAFTA long-list for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Вавилон (2006). However, he did not received the nomination.

Along with Angelina Jolie, he traveled to Syria and Jordan on a United Nations Goodwill visit to displaced Iraqi civilians. [October 2009]

Resides in Los Angeles, Malibu, Goleta, California, Benerville, France and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Has appeared in two films that took place in the Northwest during the first decades of the 20th Century, and in which he defends a Native American’s right to be served alcohol in a bar: Там, где течёт река (1992) and Легенды осени (1994).

When he and Juliette Lewis began their relationship in 1989, she was 16 years old while Pitt was 26. They met on the set of the TV movie Too Young to Die? (1990), in which they played a couple, and worked together again in Калифорния (1993). They resided together and the relationship ended after four years, in 1993.

He is of English, and smaller amounts of Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and remote Swedish, Dutch, French, Cornish, and Channel Islander/Jersey, ancestry. His family has lived in the U.S. since the 1600s on many lines. In 2012, Brad stated on B cтудии актерского мастерства (1994) that he might have Seminole and Cherokee roots. These lineages are unverified.

Girlfriend Angelina Jolie gave birth to the couple’s second daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, on May 27, 2006 in Namibia, Africa.

Girlfriend Angelina Jolie gave birth to the couple’s fifth and sixth children, son Knox Leon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France.

He appeared on the last episode of Чyдаки (2000), where the crew «kidnapped» him.

(May 29, 2014) Was attacked by Vitalii Sediuk and a restraining order was issued, ordering him to stay away from Brad.

Despite an announcement that they would only marry when gay marriage was legal in all American States, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie married in August 2014.

Once visited Simba River Camp in Kenya, a safari lodge.

He and Angelina Jolie married in California on August 14, 2014 and in southern France on August 23, 2014.

Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad on September 20, 2016.

As of 2016, he is the only actor to work on two films each with Ridley Scott, and his brother Tony Scott.

He was scheduled to star in Urban Townies (2001) for director Mike Figgis, but pulled out to star in Шпионские игры (2001), causing Mike to then walk away.

He was scheduled to make Проснувшись в Рино (2002) with Juliette Lewis but the date kept being moved which meant he was available when director Guy Ritchie asked him to do Diamonds which was retitled Большой куш (2000) on release. By the time Waking Up was ready, he and Jennifer were unavailable so their roles went to Billy Bob Thornton and Natasha Richardson.

His favorite football team is the New Orleans Saints.

As of 2018, was producer or executive producer of eight films nominated for Best Picture Oscars: Отступники (2006), Древо жизни (2011), Человек, который изменил всё (2011), 12 лет рабства (2013), Сельма (2014), Игра на понижение (2015), Лунный свет (2016) and Vice (2018). The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight all won Best Picture, but Brad Pitt was only awarded the Oscar for producing 12 Years a Slave.

Says his children are home schooled so they can have more freedom with their education.

Brad Pitt met with the director to discuss the role of Cable in Дэдпул 2 (2018), but could not commit due to scheduling conflicts, so the role was given to Josh Brolin. Although he was cast as Vanisher instead.

According to an E! News story published on January 3, 2018, the actor humorously went by his first name, William, when flirting with a young lady in line at a coffee shop.

He was engaged to actress Jill Schoelen for three months, before she broke off the engagement in Budapest (1989).

Speaks French fluently.

He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being «culturally, historically or aesthetically» significant: Тельма и Луиза (1991).

Was scheduled to star in ‘Urban Townes’ to be directed by Mike Figgis but pulled out to do ‘Spy Game’ with Robert Redford.

Born at 6:31am-CST.

He only got the part in The Legend of Bagger Vance after Robert Redford changed his mind about starring in it in addition to directing it.

Pitt kept working with producer Harvey Weinstein even after knowing that two of his partners had been sexually harassed by him. Pitt dated Gwyneth Paltrow (from 1994 to 1997), who accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the 1990s while she was dating Pitt, who knew about it since Paltrow told him when it happened, according to her interview on the Howard Stern Show on May 23, 2018. Peter Biskind, the author of the 2004 book «Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film» (which depicts Weinstein as a brutish, violent man who nevertheless managed to charm all the right people in Hollywood), told Vanity Fair in October 2017 that he learned of the incident while reporting his 2001 Vanity Fair cover on Brad Pitt, but wasn’t able to mention it in his story because Pitt had gone off-the-record. «He made me turn the tape recorder off … but he did say he liked Harvey, despite the advances he had made on Gwyneth Paltrow,» Biskind said. Pitt was also married to Angelina Jolie until 2016, with whom he had 6 children, who also accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the beginning of her career. In 2009, Pitt starred in Бесславные ублюдки (2009), which was produced by Weinstein and distributed by The Weinstein Company, and a few years later he approached Weinstein and asked him to produce the movie Ограбление казино (2012). Jolie said in an interview for The Guardian on September 4, 2021 that she fought with Pitt over that, but he still wanted Weinstein to produce the movie anyway, and Jolie said that it hurt her that Pitt was happy to work with Weinstein despite knowing he had assaulted her. Jolie never worked with Weinstein after he harassed her and avoided attending promotional events for Pitt’s ‘Killing Them Softly’. After his separation from Jolie, Pitt hired Weinstein’s former attorney and PR fixer strategist, Matthew Hiltzik, who helped kill a New York Times’ 2004 exposé on Weinstein. Pitt later bought the movie rights to the 2019 book «She Said» by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times investigative reporters who exposed Weinstein’s history of abuse. The book was turned into a movie, Её правда (2022), which was produced by Pitt.

In 1998 he was scheduled to appear in the film Forsaking All Others.

Personal Quotes (44)

I’m gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I’m gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It’ll be an acoustic version of KC & The Sunshine Band. Then maybe I’ll design a line of clothes like [Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs] but all in synthetic fur.

I’d like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

[Viasat magazine, May 2001] Fame is a bitch, man.

[on what keeps him humble] You know, I telephoned my grandparents the other day, and my grandfather said to me, «We saw your movie.» «Which one?». I said, and he shouted, «Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?». I thought that was just classic. I mean, if that doesn’t keep your feet on the ground, what would?

I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

[Time magazine, October 13, 1997] You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f—ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. I’ll tell you who my favorite actress is, Dianne Wiest, and you wouldn’t call her a sex symbol. Dianne Wiest is, to me, the most beautiful woman on the screen.

[when asked by Conan O’Brien how he got into character as stoner Floyd in Настоящая любовь (1993)] I’m a method actor.

[May 2005, on his impending divorce to Jennifer Aniston] The thing I don’t understand is looking at this as a failure. It’s talked about like it failed, I guess because it wasn’t flawless. Me, I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful, actually.

[2003] It’s amazing what an impending midlife crisis will do for you, really. It got me motivated, having turned 40 in December.

[on having children] It really changes your perspective on the world. You know, I’ve had my day. I made some films, and I’ve really had a very fortunate life, and it’s time for me to share that a little bit. Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I’m really grateful for. I’m so tired of thinking about myself. I’m sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It’s a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever taken on.

[on how his children will influence his future roles] My thoughts these days are, «Oh, my God, what did I do? What are they going to see from the past?». It definitely colors what I’ll approach in the future. I’ll try to be a little bit more mature about my decisions.

[on how his earlier, lesser film roles ultimately improved him as an actor]: I believe I’m quite capable and we, as people, can learn to do anything, and that’s proof of it! And my education is on film, on record! Now I can take on anything that comes my way and find truth in it an do a pretty good job.

[on Quentin Tarantino] The set is heaven and he is God. Heretics are not allowed.

[2010 — on New Orleans] Truthfully, my favorite sound in the entire world is opening up the balcony doors in the French Quarter and hearing four different sounds playing at once from the apartments across the way or down the street. It’s a balmy night, twilight, and I’m drinking a beer, and this feeling just falls over me, of contentment. It gives me goosebumps to talk about it.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

[on being dumped by ex-fiancée Jill Schoelen in 1989] She called me up in Los Angeles and was crying on the phone. She was lonely and there was a huge drama. At this point, I had $800 to my name and I spent $600 of it getting a ticket from Los Angeles to Hungary to see her. I got there, went straight to the set where she was filming and that night we went out to dinner. She told me that she had fallen in love with the director of the film. I was so shocked I said, «I’m outta here.» I spent my night in Budapest, sitting on a bench, smoking, with just a local bum to talk to who couldn’t speak English. These are the days and nights you remember when you have success. I returned to America absolutely broke. This is why recognition does not bother me too much.

[2009] What’s valuable to me has become clearer as I’ve got older. To me, it’s about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with. It’s about me being a strong father and guide and a good match for my significant other. Then, if I’m going to go to work, it must be something of value to me. I’m much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don’t really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

[1998, on why he moved to Los Angeles] A lot of the attraction before I came out was the fame, the lifestyle… now my motivation is more, «I want to be good!».

There are no secrets in our house. We tell the kids, «Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.».

We make breakfast like everyone else and it’s chaos and pancake batter splashed all over the place and bath time at night. Ultimately, I’m dad. I have the concerns a dad has. Is everyone safe? Am I spending enough time with them? These are the things that keep me awake.

[on comparing his own parenting style with that of his character in Древо жизни (2011)]: They say actions speak louder than words. It’s even more true with my kids. And so it’s quite important to me not to put my frustrations on them or bring them in the door. I want to keep them to be free and not encumbered with my junk. In the film it’s the exact opposite. I find it very sad, a very sad man who was embittered by his situation, doesn’t feel he can get ahead, always feels like he’s on the losing end, feels quite oppressed by his surroundings and predicament, doesn’t know why it isn’t working out for him and why is it working out for other people. That poisoned view of things.

[2011] I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn’t living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.

[2011, on Angelina Jolie] One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.

[2011, on learning to be a parent] I was surprised at how automatic it is, how much of it is instinctual. And now I have a great confidence and trust in those instincts. I mean, one sound at night and you’re awake and up because they may need you. Or when they start to have a tantrum, you know to divert them from spinning out by helping them focus on something. It just goes on and on. I tell them, «You can make a mess, but you’ve got to clean it up.».

[2011, on his religious upbringing] I had my problems with it. It doesn’t work for me. I had a lot of questions. But to get to that point where I actually questioned something that I’d based my life on — it wasn’t until I was 20 that I really started separating from it, knowing that the ideas didn’t make sense. I remember this scary moment where I didn’t have anything to pin my existence on, to be comforted by. At the same time, it didn’t work for me, man. I had to go up against this thing. I’ve since… My family accepts me for who I am and they worry for me because I’m gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire. But…

[on the stress of filming Интервью с вампиром (1994)] One day, it broke me… I called David Geffen, who was a producer… I said, «David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. How much will it take to get me out?». And he goes, very calmly, «Forty million dollars.».

[on playing the leading character in Древо жизни (2011)] That’s certainly not my father. But I do understand the father-knows-best mentality, the oppression the father figure can have on his kids, the pressure he is under to be the leader and provide, and feeling like he’s falling short and having wants and desires himself. The tragedy is coming home and bringing that on the kids, and then feeling bad about it. It’s just this vicious cycle.

[2012: on whether he would consider becoming a director] No, not a chance. It makes sense on some level, but I really enjoy being a creative producer and I enjoy my day job as an actor. It’s enough for me. I want to also be a dad, first and foremost. After two days it gets itchy. I miss them. I just know how I’d be. I see how much time it takes to mount the thing and put it together. It wouldn’t be a good match.

[on the Academy Awards nomination process] I’ve been around long enough to know it’s very fickle and it’s a cyclical wheel. But I will say this: it’s surprisingly fun when your number comes up.

[2012: while accepting the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for Человек, который изменил всё (2011) and Древо жизни (2011)] This is a really big honor for me, considering I’m a guy who had never ridden in an airplane until I was 25. That first trip was here in 1989 to New York. I had an audition for a soap opera. But I had to put myself up, and I stayed at a friend’s apartment. That apartment was in the Village on Christopher Street. My first impression of the city was: my god, there’s a lot of guys around here. But they’re so nice. This is a real pleasure for me to see some of the faces behind the formidable names that instill such fear and reverence in the film industry, although I thought you’d be taller. We are complex, we are mysteries to ourselves, we are difficult to each other, we live in continual flux and instability and conflict. Christians and Muslims, Democrats and Republicans, Denby and Rudin.

I grew up very religious, and I don’t have a great relationship with religion. I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

I think I’m at a point now where I feel like I can jump into anything and lay something down that’s quality. Someone may be better at it — or maybe not — but I know that if I have a feeling for it, then I can make it interesting. But even more as I get older, it’s about the company that I keep. That’s the most important thing to me — that if I’m gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it’s very important for me to know that I’m working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we’re going for something together.

[on Война миров Z (2013)] We liked this idea of taking a genre and using that as, I guess, a metaphor for pandemics, and if one of those pandemics jumped the tracks. Would we be ready? What countries would be in better shape, what countries would take the biggest hit? A movie is only good if it speaks about our time, if it’s personal in some way, and it plugs into the zeitgeist to irritate a little bit. I think we got that here.

[2012, on Как трусливый Роберт Форд убил Джесси Джеймса (2007)] Jesse James is absolutely one of my favourites, and I think the more it decants the better it gets. About three other people think that as well, but I think it’s got legs. It’s elegant. Andrew Dominik is a phenomenal director.

[on Собственность дьявола (1997)] We had no script. Well, we had a great script but it got tossed for various reasons. To have to make something up as you go along — Jesus, what pressure! It was ridiculous. It was the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking — if you can even call it that — that I’ve ever seen. The movie was the complete victim of this drowning studio head (Mark Canton) who said, «I don’t care. We’re making it. I don’t care what you have. Shoot something.»

About Kalifornia (1993): It’s kind of a B film, but it was important for me. I was going against the things I was getting at the time. I got to do character work in it, and there’s humor laid in there, too.

Terrence’s Voyage of Time is an incredibly beautiful and unique experiential IMAX film for children and families chronicling the birth of time, I’m very grateful to be part of such a fascinating and educational project, but I’m currently focused on my family situation and don’t want to distract attention away from this extraordinary film, which I encourage everyone to see.

[В настоящее время с Биллом Мейером (2003), August 14, 2009] Because for a democracy to work, we have to know the facts to make an informed decision. Then yes, I see it. But when you see it devolving into talks of socialism and the dismantling of the country, no one is helped by this. And let me tell you, I guarantee you these people have never been to a socialist country. I’ve been to a socialist country. We’re fine. We’re great.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense-how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don’t. My best example is 12 Monkeys, because I thought in the first half I nailed it, and in the second half I was playing on the gimmick of what worked in the first.

[on Там, где течёт река (1992)] That was a big deal. I grew up on Redford films and Newman films and Clint Eastwood and a lot of the Westerns. It was a beautiful story and one I understood because of how I grew up. Robert Redford made a quality movie. But I don’t think I was skilled enough. I think I could have done better. Maybe it was the pressure of the part, and playing someone who was a real person — and the family was around occasionally — and not wanting to let Redford down. But again, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. I was much more critical then. I was more self-conscious.

[on playing one of the leading characters in Калифорния (1993)] That was the first time I stepped inside and did some more character stuff and really made some great discoveries. Taking that role set a direction for me, where I bounced back and forth between different kinds of things — I started messing it up a little bit.

I remember back in the early days I hung out with Brandon Lee. He drove a hearse and lived in Echo Park. We went out one night and everyone else had peeled off, and we ended up back at his place and it was like six in the morning. A real, you know, drunk and stony night, and he proceeded that night to tell me how he thought he was going to die young like his dad. And I just chalked it up to, you know, stony 6:00 a.m. talk. Then he got Ворон (1994) the next year.

Salary (22)

Less Than Zero (1987)	$38
Cutting Class (1989)	$12,000
Thelma & Louise (1991)	$6,000
Kalifornia (1993)	$500,000
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)	$3,000,000
Se7en (1995)	$4,000,000
Sleepers (1996)	$10,000,000
The Devil’s Own (1997)	$8,000,000
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)	$10,000,000
Meet Joe Black (1998)	$17,500,000
Fight Club (1999)	$17,500,000
The Mexican (2001)	$5,000,000
Spy Game (2001)	$17,500,000
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)	$30,000,000 ($10M salary + backend)
Troy (2004)	$17,500,000
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)	$20,000,000
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)	$1,000,000
Inglourious Basterds (2009)	$10,000,000
The Audition (2015)	$13,000,000
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019)	$10,000,000 + backend
Bullet Train (2022)	$20,000,000
Untitled Formula One/Joseph Kosinski Project	$30,000,000

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Brad Pitt is a renowned American actor who started out with insignificant roles in Hollywood movies. Displaying an interest in acting from a very young age, the actor dropped out of college to pursue a career in the showbiz world. After minor acting stints in movies like ’21 Jump Street’, ‘Cutting Class’, and ‘Happy Together’, he got his big break in ‘Legends of the Fall’. Playing the lead role within a talented ensemble cast, including the famous Anthony Hopkins, his performance was well-received. He then acted in the Morgan Freeman-starred ‘Seven’, gradually making a name for himself in the film industry. His acting career has been a mix of ups and downs, but over the years, he has proved his mettle to the entertainment world and now is a sought-after actor. His major hits have been movies like ‘Fight Club’, ‘Ocean’s film series,’ ‘Troy’, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, ‘The Departed’, ‘Babel’, and ‘World War Z’. This famous actor also has his own production house, ‘Plan B Entertainment’, which has produced some impressive movies. Other than live-action films, he has lent his voice to several animated characters, including ‘Sindbad’ and ‘Metro Man’. This actor has impressed the world, not just with his acting caliber, but also with advocating for several social causes.