Starring roles in films such as Troy, Fight Club, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Seven and Twelve Monkeys have made Brad Pitt one of the most prominent actors in the world. With his Plan B Productions, Pitt has also added producer to his credit.
Pitt's role as the seductive hitchhiker in Ridley Scott's controversial Thelma & Louise first brought him national attention. He then went on to star as the psychopathic serial killer in Kalifornia, the charismatic-but-doomed Paul Maclean in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It, and the bloodsucking Louis in Neil Jordan's Interview With The Vampire.
Pitt has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award -- for his work as Tristan, the passionate, untamable brother in Tri-Star's Legends of the Fall and for his co-starring role in Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Pitt won the award for his performance in the later.
Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and growing up in Springfield, Missouri, Pitt attended the University of Missouri at Columbia where he majored in Journalism with a focus on advertising. Right before graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to study advertising and graphic design, but instead began to pursue an acting career, studying with Roy London. Soon thereafter, he began securing roles in various television projects, including the Fox series, "Glory Days," HBO's "The Image" and the critically acclaimed movie of the week, "Too Young To Die.”
Pitt's recent starring roles include Wolfgang Petersen's Troy, which had a international box office of $481 Million; the hits Oceans 11 and Oceans 12 with an ensemble cast that included George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Matt Damon, directed by Steven Soderbergh and Universal's Spy Game in which he starred opposite Robert Redford, directed by Tony Scott. He also co-starred in Dreamworks' The Mexican with Julia Roberts and James Gandolfini for director Gore Verbinski and Guy Ritchie's Snatch. He appeared in cameo roles in Soderbergh's Full Frontal and Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Pitt also lent his voice as Sinbad in Dreamworks' animated motion picture Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. His most recent starring role was as John Smith in Doug Liman's Mr. & Mrs. Smith opposite Angelina Jolie, which was one of 2005's most successful films, garnering $428 Million worldwide.
Pitt has also starred in Johnny Suede, which won the 1992 Golden Leopard Award for Best Picture at the Locarno Film Festival, Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, Tony Scott's True Romance, Sleepers, The Devil's Own, Jean Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet, Marty Brest's Meet Joe Black, and Fight Club reuniting him with director David Fincher (Seven).
1986 Moved to Los Angeles claiming to his parents that he was attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
1987 Cast as the boyfriend of Jenna Wade Ewing's daughter in three episodes of the CBS primetime soap "Dallas"
1987 Did extra work in the film "Less Than Zero"
1987 Had small role on the NBC soap opera "Another World"
1987 Primetime TV debut in a guest role in an episode of the ABC sitcom "Growing Pains"
1988 TV-movie debut, "A Stoning in Fulham County"
1989 Feature acting debut, "Cutting Class"
1989 Made second guest appearance on "Growing Pains", playing a different character
1990 Appeared in the regular role of Walker Lovejoy, a high school graduate working as a reporter, in the short-lived Fox drama "Glory Days"
1990 Co-starred with Juliette Lewis in the fact-based NBC TV-movie "Too Young to Die?" , about a teenage girl put on trial for murder
1991 Cast in breakthrough role of drifter J D in "Thelma & Louise" after Billy Baldwin bowed out to star in "Backdraft"
1991 Debut as a feature lead, "Johnny Suede", about an aspiring pop singer
1992 Had major role in "A River Runs Through It", directed by Robert Redford
1993 Played featured role in "True Romance"
1994 Co-starred with Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire", playing Louis, the aristocratic Southerner made turned reluctant bloodsucker
1994 First worked with Anthony Hopkins playing one of his sons in "Legends of the Fall"
1995 Co-starred with Morgan Freeman as detectives tracking a serial killer in "Seven"
1995 Earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a mental patient in "12 Monkeys"
1995 In January dubbed "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine
1997 Engendered controversy for making negative comments about "The Devil's Own", in which he played an Irish revolutionary opposite Harrison Ford as an NYC cop
1997 Film "Seven Years in Tibet" was subject of controversy when it was disclosed that the character Pitt played, Heinrich Harrer, had ties to the Nazis
1997 Successfully sued Playgirl magazine to stop distribution after it published unauthorized nude photographs of Pitt and then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow
1998 Reteamed with Anthony Hopkins for "Meet Joe Black", a loose remake of "Death Takes a Holiday"
1999 Co-starred with Edward Norton in "Fight Club"
2000 Portrayed an itinerant Irish gypsy bare knuckles boxer in "Snatch", written and directed by Guy Ritchie
2001 Co-starred with Julia Roberts in "The Mexican", playing a mafia bagman sent to retrieve the titular object, an antique pistol that supposedly carried a curse
2001 Had featured role in the ensemble of "Ocean's Eleven" which included Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Matt Damon
2001 Teamed with Robert Redford in "The Spy Game", playing the protege of a retiring CIA agent
2002 Cast as the lead in the sci-fi film "The Fountain" directed by Darren Aronofsky; film fell through
2003 Voiced the title character in the animation feature "Sinbad"
2004 Portrayed fated warrior Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy"
2004 Reunited with the original cast for "Ocean's Twelve" directed by Steven Soderbergh
2005 Starred opposite Angelina Jolie, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
Grew up in Springfield, Missouri
Signed on to spoof himself in the comedy "Chad Schmidt" he'll play both himself and the look-alike title character, a frustrated wannabe actor (lensed 2005)
Teaming with Edward Norton and National Geographic to produce a 10-part miniseries for HBO about explorers Lewis and Clark (lensed 2006)
Will play cowboy outlaw Jesse James in a film based on a novel called "The Assassination Of Jesse James" by Coward Robert Ford (lensed 2005)
Will produce an adaptation of Leif Enger's novel "Peace Like a River," a 1960s-era drama that will star Billy Bob Thornton (lensed 2005)
Will reprise role along with the original cast for "Ocean's 13"
Worked at odd jobs including as a chaffeur to Strip-O-Gram strippers, delivering refrigerators to college students and dressing up in a chicken costume outside the El Pollo Loco restaurant.
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