1. William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18,1963 and is an American actor and film producer.
88 Facts About Brad Pitt
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Brad Pitt is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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One of the most influential celebrities, Pitt appeared on Forbes annual Celebrity 100 list from 2006 to 2008, and the Time 100 list in 2007.
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Brad Pitt emerged as a star taking on leading man roles in films such as the drama A River Runs Through It, the western Legends of the Fall, the horror film Interview with the Vampire, the crime thriller Seven, and the cult film Fight Club.
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Brad Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh's heist film Ocean's Eleven, and reprised his role in its sequels.
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Brad Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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Brad Pitt was Oscar-nominated for his roles in the science fiction drama 12 Monkeys, the fantasy romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the sports drama Moneyball.
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Brad Pitt starred in acclaimed films such as Babel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Burn After Reading, Inglourious Basterds, The Tree of Life, and The Big Short.
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In 2001, Brad Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.
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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, a school counselor.
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Brad Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country", having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes".
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Brad Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming, and tennis teams.
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Brad Pitt participated in the school's Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.
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Two weeks short of completing the coursework for a degree, Brad Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.
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Brad Pitt has named Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, and Mickey Rourke as his early acting heroes.
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Brad Pitt's acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less than Zero.
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Brad Pitt appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter Charlotte.
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Later in 1988, Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.
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Brad 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 Brad Pitt's films to reach theaters.
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Brad Pitt made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddy's Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains.
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Brad Pitt took on the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford.
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Brad Pitt capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.
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In 1994, Brad 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.
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Brad Pitt was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.
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Brad Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.
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The movie received predominantly positive reviews, with Brad Pitt praised in particular.
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Brad 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.
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Brad Pitt had the lead role in 1998's fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black.
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Brad Pitt portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man to learn what it is like to be human.
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In 1999, Brad Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in Fight Club, a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher.
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Brad Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling.
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Brad Pitt was cast as an Irish Traveller boxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie's 2000 gangster film Snatch.
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On November 22,2001, Brad 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 Brad Pitt was married at the time.
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In December 2001, Brad Pitt played Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original.
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Brad Pitt joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts.
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Brad 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, and in a subsequent episode participating in his own staged abduction.
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Brad Pitt 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 and playing Boomhauer's brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.
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Brad 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.
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Brad Pitt spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad.
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Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post stated that Brad Pitt excelled at such a demanding role.
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Brad Pitt's performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was credible and gave the film visibility.
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Brad Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career.
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Brad Pitt was credited on-screen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win.
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Brad Pitt eventually collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.
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The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy", noting that Brad Pitt's performance was one of the funniest.
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Brad Pitt 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.
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Brad 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.
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Brad Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France.
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Brad Pitt next voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the 2010 animated feature Megamind.
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Brad 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.
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In 2013, Brad Pitt starred in World War Z, a thriller about a zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks's novel of the same name.
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Also in 2013, Brad Pitt had a supporting role in Ridley Scott's The Counselor.
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Brad 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 Pena, and Jason Isaacs.
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In 2015, Brad 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.
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In 2016, Brad Pitt starred in Robert Zemeckis's romantic thriller Allied, in which he plays an assassin who falls in love with a French spy during a mission to kill a German official in World War II.
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Brad Pitt played a recurring role as a weatherman on the late-night talk show The Jim Jefferies Show throughout 2017.
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Brad 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 Brad Pitt produced and DiCaprio starred in.
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Brad Pitt's performance was praised as one of his career-best turn, delivering a performance "that weaponizes passivity into a lethal form of self-defense".
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In 2020, Brad Pitt portrayed Dr Anthony Fauci in the cold open on Saturday Night Live, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.
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In 2021, Brad Pitt entered the recording business by creating a company with French record producer Damien Quintard.
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In 2022, Brad Pitt starred in Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch, and reunited with his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Margot Robbie in Babylon, directed by Damien Chazelle.
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Brad Pitt reteamed with George Clooney in Wolfs, a comedy-thriller written and directed by Jon Watts, which was released in September 2024.
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Over his career Brad Pitt has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Brad Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 US presidential election, in which he supported John Kerry.
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Brad Pitt narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues.
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Brad Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture, even taking time away from film to study computer-aided design at the Los Angeles offices of renowned architect Frank Gehry.
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Brad Pitt narrated e2 design, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.
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The first six homes were completed in October 2008, and in September 2009 Brad Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the US Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated.
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Brad Pitt met with US 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.
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McCall and Lewis were 15 and 16 respectively when Brad Pitt started dating them.
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Subsequently, Brad Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.
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Brad Pitt met actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998; they married in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29,2000.
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Jolie and Brad Pitt stated that they fell in love on the set and that there was no infidelity.
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On September 19,2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.
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In July 2005, Brad Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, a girl named Zahara.
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On December 3,2005, Brad Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of Jolie's daughter, and Jolie's first adopted child, a boy named Maddox.
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Brad Pitt confirmed that she would qualify for a Namibian passport.
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Brad Pitt adopted the boy in the United States on February 21,2008.
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Brad Pitt gave birth to son and daughter, Knox and Vivienne, on July 12,2008 in Nice, France.
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Jolie had full custody until May 2021 when Brad Pitt was granted joint custody, over four and a half years after proceedings began.
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Brad Pitt was not criminally charged for the incident by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, or by the FBI.
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In September 2016, Brad Pitt got sober and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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Brad Pitt has admitted to using cannabis in the late 1990s as a way to deal with his increasing fame.
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In 2022, Brad Pitt said that he had struggled for years to recognize people's faces due to prosopagnosia.
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Brad Pitt has an interest in art, learned pottery, and has created sculptures.
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Brad 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.
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The magazine credited Brad Pitt for using "his star power to get people to look [to where] cameras don't usually catch".
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Brad Pitt was again included on the Time 100 in 2009, this time in the "Builders and Titans" list.