William Bradley Pitt, better known by his stage name Brad Pitt, was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in the United States. Pitt is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, and has won one of them. Brad has gained a lot of media attention for being one of the most attractive men in the world.
BIOGRAPHY
Brad, a recognized American actor, is the most well-known and adaptable actor who can fit himself into any role. He appears in the most popular shows and is not only a fantastic actor but also a producer. Pitt has won numerous honors, including the Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and others.
Brad is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner for his work as an actor and producer. He is best known for his portrayals of outlandish characters and his excellent looks.
SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
Despite enjoying every kind of success, a performer could hope for, the Hollywood star avoids social media. This contrasts with the majority of his contemporaries, who enjoy posting their photos online. Pitt’s absence from social media was a topic of conversation with an E! reporter in 2019, when the reporter asked that when he would open an Instagram account Brad responded,
“Never gonna happen,”
Then the “Troy” actor explained why he is not on social media because according to him Life without it is really good. Brad has also claimed before that there could be spread many misconceptions via social media.
There are different fan pages of Brad on social media. Some are as follows.
WIKI
We will discuss some quick Wiki facts about Pitt.
| Full Name | William Bradley Pitt |
| Nick Name | Pitt-bull Buratto Pitto |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 18 December 1963 |
| Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
| Age | 59 years old |
| Birthplace | Shawnee, Oklahoma, the United States |
| Home town | Springfield, Missouri |
| Current Residence | Los Feliz |
| Nationality | American |
| Religion | Atheist |
| Education | University of Missouri Kickapoo High School |
| Profession | Actor Film producer |
| Net Worth | $400 Million |
| Weight | 78 kgs |
| Height | 5 feet 11 Inches |
| Eye Color | Light Bluish Green |
| Hair Color | Blonde |
| Body Type | Athletic |
| Body Measurement | Chest: 43 Waist: 33 Biceps: 15 (Inches) |
| Shoe Size | 9(US) |
| Marital Status | Divorced |
| Ex-wives | Jennifer Aniston Angelina Jolie |
| Children | Knox Vivienne Maddox Pax Zahara Shiloh |
| Hobby | Interior Designing Collecting functional metal art pieces Music Architecture |
ZODIAC SIGN
His zodiac sign is Sagittarius like Mahira Khan, Tamanna Bhatia, and Baby Ariel. The people of this zodiac sign are intelligent, loyal, unique, and assertive. Their most prominent feature is independence.
EARLY LIFE
Pitt was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, and studied at the University of Missouri from 1983 to 1987 before quitting right before his senior year to come to California and start an acting career. He gained popularity as a charming scoundrel in the movie Thelma & Louise after playing small roles in television and movies. “A River Runs Through It”,” Interview with the Vampire”, and “Legends of the Fall” (1994) existed in some of his subsequent motion pictures. Along with these roles, Pitt portrayed a police officer in the thriller movie “Seven” (1995) and a misanthrope in the fantasy “12 Monkeys” (1995), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar nomination.
PARENTS AND SIBLINGS
William Alvin Pitt, who owned a trucking firm, and Jane Etta, a school counselor, were the parents of Pitt. Doug Pitt and Julie Pitt Neal are the younger siblings of Brad.
| Father | William Alvin Pitt |
| Mother | Jane Etta |
| Brother | Doug Pitt |
| Sister | Julie Pitt Neal |
EDUCATION
Pitt got his early education at Kickapoo High School where he participated in the tennis, swimming, and golf teams. He took part in school debates, musicals, and the Key and Forensics clubs. After completing high school, Brad enrolled at the University of Missouri in 1982 and declared a journalism degree with a concentration on advertising. He was not prepared to start a new life as graduation came near. Brad considered movies to be
“a window into new worlds for me,”
and since they weren’t produced there, Pitt decided to travel to the countries and left the institution two weeks before finishing the required curriculum for a degree and relocated to Los Angeles, where he studied acting.
CAREER
Guest roles on television helped Pitt launch his acting career, and in 1987 he had a part in the CBS prime-time serial opera Dallas. In the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise, he went on to become famous as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’s character. A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994) became Pitt’s first prominent roles in high-profile motion pictures. In the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, in which he starred opposite Anthony Hopkins, he received his first Golden Globe nomination. He delivered critically lauded performances in the science fiction movie 12 Monkeys and the criminal thriller Seven in 1995. The latter earned him a nomination for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
Pitt appeared in the cult hit Fight Club four years later, in 1999. Later, he played Rusty Ryan in “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) and its follow-ups, “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004) and “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007), which became a huge global hit. Brad’s two biggest box-office hit Movies were “Troy”(2004) and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)”.
NET WORTH
Brad’s net worth is approximately $400+ Million like Jackie Chan.
SOURCE OF INCOME
Along with earning wealth as an actor and producer of movies, he has also earned a sizable fortune through successful commercial dealings. The Departed, Moonlight, and 12 Years a Slave were among the popular films made by Plan B Entertainment, which Brad helped start.
TELEVISION
He has worked on different television shows as an actor and as a producer as well.
Here is a list of his television performances.
| Title | Year |
| Another World | 1987 |
| Growing Pains | 1987 |
| Head of the Class | 1987 |
| Freddy’s Nightmares | 1987 |
| Trial and Error | 1988 |
| A Stoning in Fulham County | 1988 |
| 21 Jump Street | 1988 |
| The Image | 1990 |
| Too Young to Die? | 1990 |
| Glory Days | 1990 |
| Two-Fisted Tales | 1992 |
| Tales from the Crypt | 1992 |
| Saturday Night Live | 1998 |
| Friends | 2001 |
| Resurrection | 2014 |
| The Normal Heart | 2014 |
| The Jim Jefferies Show | 2017-2018 |
| Sweetbitter | 2018-2019 |
| Lego Masters | 2020–present |
| The Third Day | 2020 |
| The Underground Railroad | 2021 |
| Outer Range | 2022 |
| Dave | 2023 |
FILMOGRAPHY
His first major cinematic appearance was as an extra in Marek Kaniewska’s 1987 film “Blow Out the American Dream“. Then, in “The black side of the Sun“, a 1988 film shot in the former Yugoslavia, he played the lead.
In one of Ridley Scott’s most well-known and divisive movies of the 1990s, “Thelma and Louise” (1991), he was able to land a significant part. Pitt played J.D., a minor-league burglar who interacts with the protagonists throughout the movie and has a total screen time of thirty minutes, in a subordinate but significant role.
Major Roles
Brad played darker roles as well, such as the psychopath in Dominic Sena’s 1993 film “Kalifornia”, to diversify his acting career. He partially mimicked “The River of Life’s structure in Edward Zwick’s 1994 film “Legends of Passion“. Pitt is well known for his roles in movies including “Legends of the Fall”, “Fight Club“, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“, “Moneyball“, “12 Years a Slave“, and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” in which he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio.
| Title | Year |
| Hunk | 1987 |
| No Way Out | 1987 |
| The Dark Side of the Sun | 1988 |
| Happy Together | 1989 |
| Cutting Class | 1989 |
| Thelma & Louise | 1991 |
| A River Runs Through It | 1992 |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 1993 |
| True Romance | 1993 |
| Interview with the Vampire | 1994 |
| Legends of the Fall | 1994 |
| Seven | 1995 |
| 12 Monkeys | 1995 |
| The Devil’s Own | 1997 |
| Seven Years in Tibet | 1997 |
| The Mexican | 2001 |
| Ocean’s Eleven | 2001 |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | 2003 |
| Troy | 2004 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | 2005 |
| The Departed | 2006 |
| Babel | 2006 |
| Ocean’s Thirteen | 2007 |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 |
| The Time Traveler’s Wife | 2009 |
| The Tree of Life | 2011 |
| World War Z | 2013 |
| Voyage of Time | 2016 |
| War Machine | 2017 |
| Dead pool 2 | 2018 |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | 2019 |
| Bullet Train | 2022 |
| Landscape with Invisible Hand | 2023 |
| The Killer | 2023 |
There are three movies he is producing and he is also working as an actor in two of them. These movies are under the filming process and will be released soon. His upcoming movies are as follows.
| Beetlejuice 2 | Upcoming |
| Wolves | Upcoming |
| Untitled Joseph Kosinski film | Upcoming om |
AWARDS
He received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in Terry Gilliam’s 1995 film “Twelve Monkeys“, which he directed as a former Monty Python member. The movie chronicles Bruce Willis’s quest through time to defend humanity against the “Twelve Monkeys“, an eco-terrorist organization. Brad earned a well-deserved nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He made an appearance in Barry Levinson’s “Sleepers” (1996) a year later. Pitt is the winner of Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards and he has also won an Oscar for the movie “12 Years a Slave” in 2013.
He had the honor of appearing in sequences alongside legendary performers like Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Italian Vittorio.
Awards List
There is a long list of his awards. So here are some of the awards he has won.
| Academy Awards | |
| Best Picture (12 Years a Slave) | 2014 |
| Best Support Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2020 |
| British Academy Film Awards | |
| Best Film (Twelve Years a Slave) | 2014 |
| Best Film Actor in Supporting Role (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2020 |
| Golden Globe Awards | |
| Best Supporting Actor (12 Monkeys) | 1996 |
| Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2020 |
| Primetime Emmy Awards | |
| Outstanding Television Movie (The Normal Heart) | 2014 |
| Screen Actors Guild Awards | |
| Outstanding Performance by a Cast (Inglourious Basterds) | 2010 |
| Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2020 |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | |
| Best Supporting Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2019 |
| Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards | |
| Best International Supporting Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2019 |
| Boston Society of Film Critics | |
| Best Actor (Moneyball) | 2011 |
| Best Supporting Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2019 |
| Critics’ Choice Movie Awards | |
| Best Comedy (The Big Short) | 2016 |
| Best Movie Supported Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2020 |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | |
| Best Supporting Actor (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) | 2019 |
| Georgia Film Critics Association | |
| Best Supporting Actor (The Tree of Life) | 2011 |
| Golden Raspberry Awards | |
| Worst Screen Couple (Interview with the Vampire) | 1995 |
| Worst Picture (Blond) | 2023 |
PAST RELATIONSHIPS
- Robin Givens (1986-1987)
- Shalane McCall (1987)
- Jill Schoelen (1988-1989)
- Sinitta (1988)
- Christina Applegate (1988-1989)
- Elizabeth Daily (1989)
- Juliette Lewis (1989-1993)
- Geena Davis (1991)
- Julia Ormond (1993)
- Jitka Pohlodek (1993)
- Thandie Newton (1994-1995)
- Gwyneth Paltrow (1994-1997)
- Claire Forlani (1998)
- Jennifer Aniston (1998-2005)
MARITAL STATUS
His first marriage was to actress and model Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They remained married for 5 years then Pitt got divorced from Jennifer Aniston in 2005 and was in a relationship with Angelina Julie. He took up Maddox and Zahara, the two children Jolie had adopted from Ethiopia and Cambodia, respectively, in 2006. Shiloh, the couple’s first biological child, was born in May 2006. They welcomed biological twins Knox and Vivienne into their family in 2008 after adopting Pax, a boy, from Vietnam the previous year. Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt two years after the couple wed in 2014.
LATEST UPDATES
For the next release, Brad and George Clooney have been working with Austin Abrams for the past week. In parallel, New York City’s streets were filled with celebrities chasing Austin as he was wearing only his underwear. Pitt wore a stylish leather jacket over a white shirt, gray slacks, and matching shoes to seem dapper. The leather jacket was from All Saints, and the actor wore it. George Clooney, on the other hand, was sporting a leather zipper in addition to a turtleneck t-shirt, gray jeans, and a bag in his left hand.
The upcoming movie “Wolves” stars renowned performers who are sure to excite the audience. John Watts was the film’s writer and director. In the movie, two experienced fixers find out they were given the same assignment. George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Brad Pitt make up the film’s four primary cast members.
FAVORITES
Here is a list of favorites of Pitt.
| Favorite Food | Toaster Strudel Strawberry Twizzlers Frosted Flakes |
| Favorite Sport | Basketball |
| Favorite Singer | George Winston |
| Favorite Color | Blue & Black |
| Favorite Movie | Planet of the Apes Saturday Night Fever Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. |
| Favorite Actors | Jack Nicholson Robert Redford Mickey Rourke Marlon Brando |
| Favorite Actress | Dianne Wiest |
INTERESTING FACTS
- Pitt had a passion for the arts, and in 2022 he displayed many sculptures at a museum in Finland. His creations included a little homemade tree bark and tape.
- He holds the production company Plan B Entertainment, whose works include The Departed, the Best Picture winner from the 2007 Academy Awards.
- Pitt began to smoke when he was in 6th grade.
- Brad has many friends in the Hollywood industry. Some close friends are Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp.
- He is a professional motorcycle rider.
- Pitt is a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community.
- Brad has a phobia of flying.
- Pitt’s first acting coach was Roy London in Los Angeles.
- He got his first Oscar nomination for the movie 12 Monkeys in 1995.
- While shooting the movie Seven, he broke his arm.
- Brad was banned by China for his appearance in the “Seven Years in Tibet” movie in 1997.
- His first job was to wear a chicken suit at ” el Pollo Loco“, a chain of Mexican restaurants.
- He donated to an organization named “One Campaign” which worked to combat poverty and AIDS in the world.
- In 2006, for Humanitarian causes around the world, Brad and Angelina Jolie established a charitable organization,” The Jolie-Pitt Foundation“.
- In 1995, he got the award for ” Sexiest Man Alive“, which he won again in 2000.
- The fans of Pitt and Jolie gave them the name “Brangelina fever” for their relationship.
- As a producer, he won an Oscar for the movie ” 12 Years a Slave” in 2013.
- In 2005, Pitt was granted the Guinness Book of World Records for being the “Most Wanted Man” on the Google search engine
CONTROVERSIES
- Jolie filed a cross-complaint against Pitt, outlining specifics of his abusive behavior toward his ex-wife and kids. The court filing was a result of a dispute over a winery that the two had jointly owned. When the family was flying from France to California in September 2016, Jolie claimed Pitt had a physical and verbal outburst. The New York Times cited the petition as saying that
“Pitt choked one of the children, punched another in the face, and seized Jolie by the head and shook her.”
Pitt allegedly poured beer on Jolie and red wine and beer on the kids, according to the report. Days after the flight, Jolie filed for divorce.
- Zach Galifianakis (from “The Hangover”) asked Brad a question regarding his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, and his current wife and children’s mother, Angelina Jolie. Brad responded by spitting gum in the face of Galifianakis although it was fun.
- One of Hollywood’s worst-kept secrets formerly was that Pitt smoked marijuana. He received a wrapped bong from the comedian when he appeared on Zach Galifianakis‘ Between Two Ferns in 2014. Brad explains to the Hangover actor,
“You know I’m a parent now,”
and the actor reassures his companion that it’s a bassoon. Pitt said,
“We don’t bassoon in my house anymore.”
All of this was done in the spirit of awkward humor, but Pitt’s long-standing marijuana use is no joke.
How many kids does Brad Pitt have?
Pitt has six children named Knox, Vivienne, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh. Three of them are his biological kids and three are adopted from different countries.
Who was the first wife of Brad Pitt?
His first marriage was to actress and model Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They remained married for 5 years then Pitt got divorced from Jennifer Aniston in 2005.
When did Brad Pitt win the Oscar?
He won an Oscar for the movie "12 Years a Slave" in 2013.
