Brad Pitt

The US Trends | Brad Pitt | Brad Pitt is an American actor. Pitt has received two Oscar nominations and four Golden Globe nominations, winning one. Pitt has been described as one of the most attractive men in the world, a label for which he received media attention.

Brad Pitt was born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri, the eldest of three children in a very Southern Baptist family. His father, Bill Pitt, owned a transport company and his mother, Jane Pitt, was a counselor in the family. Pitt originally aspired to be an art director in advertising studies journalism at the University of Missouri. However, the young student had other quiet aspirations, the product of a childhood love of the film, which finally seemed tangible his last semester in college when he realized, "I can go." On a whim, Pitt dropped out of school, packed up his Datsun, and west to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, just two credits shy of a degree.

Brad Pitt told his parents he intended to enroll in the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, but instead spent the next several months driving a limousine—chauffeuring strippers from one bachelor party to the next, delivering refrigerators, and trying to break into the L.A. acting scene. He joined an acting class and, shortly after, accompanied a classmate as her scene partner on an audition with an agent. In a twist of fate, the agent signed Pitt instead of his classmate. After weathering only seven months in Los Angeles, Pitt had secured an agent and regular acting work.

Brad Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas in 1987. He later gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis's character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt's first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995 he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty Ryan in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second Academy Award nomination for his title role performance in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

A two-time winner of People magazine "sexiest man alive" title (1995 and 2000), Brad Pitt began dating Jennifer Aniston, star of TV sitcom Friends, in 1998. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were married July 29, 2000, in Malibu, California. The couple announced their separation in January 2005 and divorced in October of this year.

Shortly after their separation, Brad Pitt began dating actress Angelina Jolie. In May 2006, the couple had a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. They also have three adopted children (Maddox, Pax Thien and Zahara). In July 2008, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave birth to twins, a boy, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline a girl. The family now divide their time between Los Angeles and New Orleans.

After an extensive relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has generated wide publicity. He and Jolie have six children Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. Since the beginning of his relationship with Angelina Jolie, has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally. Pitt owns a production company called Plan B Entertainment, whose productions include the 2007 Award for the Best Picture Oscar, The Departed.

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