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Brad Pitt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt[1] (born December 18, 1963)
is an American actor and film producer, who achieved
stardom in several successful films in the mid-1990s. He has
been cited as one of the world's most attractive men and his
off-screen life is widely reported.[2][3] Pitt has received one
Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
Pitt began his career in television guest spots, including a
recurring role on the CBS soap opera Dallas in 1987. He
was cast in supporting roles in such standard teen-oriented
films, slasher flicks, comedies and family-oriented sports
dramas. He gained recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker
who seduces Geena Davis' character in the 1991 film
Thelma & Louise. Pitt's first leading role in a major film was
in Interview with the Vampire (1994). He starred in the
1995 well-received crime and science fiction films Se7en
and Twelve Monkeys, for which he won a Best Performance
by an Actor. Pitt achieved fame as a result of his portrayal
of Tyler Durden, a straight-shooting but charismatic
mastermind individual in Fight Club (1999), and since then
has established himself as an A-list actor.[4] He has had his
biggest commercial successes with Ocean's Eleven (2001),
Spy Game (2001), Troy (2004), the action-comedy Mr. &
Mrs. Smith (2005), and Burn After Reading (2008).
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt in 2007
Born
Spouse(s)
Domestic
partner(s)
William Bradley Pitt
December 18, 1963
Shawnee, Oklahoma
Jennifer Aniston (2000–2005)
Angelina Jolie (2005–
present)
Awards won
[show]
Following a high profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and marriage to Jennifer Aniston, as of
2008, Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention.[5] He
and Jolie have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh,
Knox, and Vivienne. Since his relationship with Jolie, Pitt has become increasingly involved in social issues,
both in the United States and internationally.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Acting career
2.1 Early work
2.2 Early critical success
2.3 1998–2003
2.4 2004–present
3 Other projects
4 In the media
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5 Personal life
5.1 Marriage to Jennifer Aniston
5.2 Relationship with Angelina Jolie
6 Filmography
6.1 Producer
7 Awards and nominations
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Early life
Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the son of Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William
Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner.[6] Along with his siblings Doug and Julie Neal, he grew up in Springfield,
Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. Growing up, he was raised as a conservative Southern
Baptist, singing in the church choir.[7][6]
Pitt attended Kickapoo High School excelling at school; he was a member of the golf, tennis and swimming
teams, as well as the Key and Forensics clubs.[6] He also participated in school debates and musicals.[6]
Following his graduation, Pitt attended the University of Missouri in 1982, where he belonged to the Sigma Chi
fraternity,[1] where he frequently acted in several fraternity shows.[6] He majored in journalism, with a focus on
advertising.[8] In 1985, two weeks prior to earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles,
California to take acting lessons.[1] When asked why he left the university, Pitt responded: "I had this sinking
feeling as graduation approached. I saw my friends getting jobs. I wasn't ready to settle down. I loved films.
They were a portal into different worlds for me, and Missouri wasn't where movies were made. Then it hit me: If
they didn't come to me, I'd go to them."[9]
Once he moved to Los Angeles, he took a number of odd jobs, ranging from chauffeuring,[10] being a delivery
man,[6] selling cigarettes,[6] assisting a soap opera writer,[6] and dressing up as an El Pollo Loco chicken, to pay
for his acting classes.[1][6] When asked about the pivotal influence in his decision in leaving Missouri for Los
Angeles, Pitt said: "I wasn't ready to call it quits as far as getting out into the world. It wasn't leaving something
behind, it was heading for something that was nascent and ill-defined. I did not know what it would be when I
got to L.A., and to me not knowing that has always been the most exciting thing about making a trip."[9]
Acting career
Early work
While struggling in Los Angeles, he began studying acting with the late renowned acting coach Roy London.[8]
In December 1987, Pitt started out in television guest spots, including a recurring role on the CBS primetime
soap opera Dallas playing Randy, the boyfriend of Shalane McCall's character, Charlie Wade.[1][6] During an
interview with People magazine, he revealed, while questioned about his scenes with McCall, "It was real
sweaty-palms time for me. It was kind of wild, because I'd never even met her before."[1] His character spent
five weeks in the show.[6] In 1990, he co-starred in the short-lived television drama Glory Days.[6]
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In 1988, Pitt received his first film role in The Dark Side of the Sun, where he played
a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin
condition. The movie was shot in Yugoslavia in the summer of 1988. However, with
editing nearly complete, war broke out and much of the footage was lost; the film
was released nine years later.[11] Pitt was then cast in the television movie Too
Young to Die?, about an abused teenager given the death penalty for murder. Pitt
played the part of a drug addict, Billy Canton, who took advantage of a runaway
played by Juliette Lewis.[11][12] In the Entertainment Weekly review of the
television movie, critic Ken Tucker, wrote: "Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her
hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent John Cougar Mellencamp,
he's really scary."[12]
Pitt was named Sexiest
Man Alive by People
magazine in 1995 and
2000
Pitt starred alongside Vera Martins, in which he plays Joe Maloney in Across the
Tracks, which he portrayed a high school runner with a difficult criminal brother
played by Ricky Schroder.[11][13] Pitt attracted broader public attention from a supporting role in Thelma &
Louise, where he played a small-time criminal drifter who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His love scene with
Davis, which showed Pitt shirtless and wearing a cowboy hat, has been often cited as the moment that defined
Pitt as a "sex symbol".[1][11]
After the success of Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred alongside Catherine Keener and Nick Cave in the low budget,
Tom DiCillo-directed 1991 film Johnny Suede, as an awkward dreamer who aspired to be a big-haired rock
star.[11] After appearing in Cool World,[11] Pitt starred in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It in
1992.[14] In 1993, re-uniting with his Too Young to Die? co-star Juliette Lewis, they appeared in the film
Kalifornia, a road movie in which he played a scruffy serial killer and Lewis playing Pitt's ex-girlfriend.[11]
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone in his review of the film, called Pitt's performance as "outstanding".[15] He also
noted the performances by both Pitt and Lewis, with saying: "He and Lewis... play this flapdoodle with enough
urgency to make the suspension of disbelief worthwhile."[15] That same year, he won a ShoWest Award as
"Male Star of Tomorrow".[16]
Early critical success
Pitt's career prospects began to improve after being cast as vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the movie
adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire.[11][17] The role of the 18th-century vampire
required Pitt to endure several hours of make-up being applied every day to achieve the characteristic white
skin; Pitt wore a pair of green contact lenses and vampire fangs to complete the appearance.[18] His co-stars
included the 11-year-old Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.[11][17] His
performance earned him two wins at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards in the categories of Best Male Performance
and Most Desirable Male.[19]
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He then starred in Legends of the Fall (1994) and Se7en (1995).[20][21] His
performance in Legends of the Fall earned him his first Golden Globe nomination
in the category of Best Performance.[22] In Se7en, Pitt starred alongside Morgan
Freeman as the police detective David Mills who hunts a serial killer played by
Kevin Spacey.[21] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post in her review of the film
praised Pitt's performance as "impressive".[23]
Pitt next took the portrayal of Jeffrey Goines in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys. The
film was met with well-received reviews and the film was successful at the box
office. His character was particularly praised, as Janet Maslin of The 1ew York
Times wrote: "Giving a startlingly frenzied performance, he electrifies Jeffrey with a
Pitt visiting the Incirlik
weird magnetism that becomes important later in the film."[24] Pitt won his first
Air Base Hospital in 2001
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor,[22] and received his first
nomination for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor.
Pitt had a supporting role in the 1996 film Sleepers, the film is based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same
name.[25][26] The film starred Kevin Bacon and Robert DeNiro.[25][26] The following year, he starred alongside
Harrison Ford as the Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany in The Devil's Own (1997),[27] the first of
several films where Pitt used an Irish accent in his performance.[28] That same year, he played the main role of
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.[29] Pitt trained for
months for the role, which demanded a great deal of trekking and mountain climbing, by rock climbing in
California and the Alps with his co-star, David Thewlis. Due to the themes of Tibetan nationalism in the film,
the Chinese government banned Pitt and Thewlis from entering China for life.[30][31]
1998–2003
Pitt had the leading role in the film, Meet Joe Black (1998), where he played a personification of death
inhabiting the body of a young man in order to learn what it is like to be human.[11][32] The film re-united Pitt
and Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, with whom he had previously worked on Legends of the Fall (1994).[11]
In 1999, Pitt starred in Fight Club, an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. The film was
directed by David Fincher, who directed Se7en. In the film, Pitt portrayed the highly complex and colorful
character of Tyler Durden. His performance received positive reviews; In the Variety magazine review of the
film, critic David Rooney noted: "Pitt is cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical."[33] Peter Rainer of
1ew York magazine wrote: "Brad Pitt jangles like a lethal jitterbug."[34]
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Following the success of Fight Club, Pitt played the role of Mickey, an
Irish Gypsy boxer in the gangster movie Snatch, alongside Jason
Statham, Vinnie Jones and Benicio del Toro, directed by Guy
Ritchie.[35] The film was a wild caper involving a diamond heist, the
Russian and American mafia and the shady underground world, that
saw Pitt brought in as a ringer by two failing promoters. The movie saw
him moving on from the Northern Irish accent he attempted in The
Devil's Own; Pitt created a barely-intelligible accent in the movie.[36]
He continued to train for the role, and honed his boxing skills at Ricky
English's gym in Watford.[37]
Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon,
Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, cast of
Ocean's Eleven and director Steven
Soderbergh in December 2001
In 2001, Pitt starred alongside Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy
The Mexican.[38] His next role was in the Cold War thriller Spy Game
in which he starred alongside veteran actor Robert Redford, who played his mentor.[39][40] Also in 2001, Pitt
played the role of Rusty Ryan in the remake of the 1960s Rat Pack film of the same name, Ocean's Eleven. He
starred alongside George Clooney and Matt Damon.[41][42] Film critic Roger Ebert, in review of Ocean's Eleven
noted: "Brad Pitt has a nice dialogue passage."[42] He provided the voice of Sinbad, the animated title-hero in
the DreamWorks movie Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003).[43][44]
2004–present
In 2004, he starred in two films, Ocean's Twelve[41] and the epic Troy, based on the Iliad, in which he portrayed
hero Achilles. Before filming began, Pitt spent six months, for the required role, sword training.[45] During film
production, Pitt injured his Achilles tendon, delaying production for several weeks.[46] Mick LaSalle of the San
Francisco Chronicle, in his review of Troy, wrote that Pitt's performance was "magnetic".[47] Pitt starred in the
2005 film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who
find out that they are both secret assassins. Pitt starred as John Smith alongside Angelina Jolie. The film was
well-received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted,
"While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars'
thermonuclear screen chemistry."[48] The movie earned $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of
2005.[49][50]
Pitt's only movie in 2006 was Alejandro González Iñárritu's critically acclaimed
Babel, starring alongside Cate Blanchett.[51] The film was received with
positive reviews, including the film's direction by Iñarritu, as well as the
performances by Pitt, Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal.[52] William Arnold of
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted that Pitt's performance was "credible" and
gives the film "visibility".[53] The movie garnered a total of seven Academy
Award and Golden Globe nominations, one of which was a Golden Globe
nomination for Pitt as Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.[22] That
same year, he also produced the Best Picture film, The Departed.[54]
Pitt interviewed by the news
media at the Palm Springs
International Film Festival in
2007
In 2007, Pitt reprised his role as Rusty Ryan in the third Ocean's film Ocean's
Thirteen.[55] The sequel, while not as lucrative as the first two, earned $36
million at the international box-office.[56][57] He produced and starred in The Assassination of Jesse James by
the Coward Robert Ford, directed by Andrew Dominik, though production of the film began in 2005, the film
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was released until late 2007.[58] During promotion of the film, he noted of his portrayal of the character: "It is
— everything that he's been made famous for is, has, has already occurred. And everyone in his gang is either
dead or in jail. His brother's left. He's quit the gang and he's really on his own … the most important thing is, he
is consumed by paranoia, most of it justified, but consumed."[59] For his performance, he won the Volpi Cup for
Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival;[60] although Pitt attended the festival to promote the
movie, he left early after being attacked by a crazed fan who pushed through his bodyguards, and he was not
present to accept the award.[61] The festival failed to ship Pitt the award, so he did not collect it until the 65th
festival the next following year.[62]
Pitt appeared in the 2008 dark comedy Burn After Reading, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers (Joel
and Ethan). While promoting the film and signing autographs at the 65th Venice Film Festival, Pitt saved a fan
who slipped and fell into a lake; Pitt quickly grabbed the fan, pulled him safely back into the boat.[63] Burn
After Reading received positive reviews; Andrew Pulver of The Guardian called the film "a tightly wound,
slickly plotted spy comedy."[64] Pulver, who also rated the film four out of five stars, noted that Pitt's
performance was one of the "funniest".[64] He was cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher's The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, loosely adapted from the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott
Fitzgerald.[65][66] The film reunites Pitt with Babel co-star Cate Blanchett and Fight Club director David
Fincher.[65][66]
Pitt has two new screen roles scheduled for production. In October 2008,[67] production begun in Germany for
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, a film about an American resistance fighter, Pitt's character, battling
Nazis in German-occupied France. The movie awaits release in 2009.[68][69] Also in 2009, he will appear in the
drama Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick and starring alongside Sean Penn.[70][71]
Other projects
Pitt has appeared in television commercials designed for the Asian market, advertising such products as Edwin
Jeans.[72] He also appeared in a Heineken commercial which aired during the 2005 Super Bowl; it was directed
by David Fincher, who directed Pitt in the feature films Se7en and Fight Club.[73][74]
Pitt, along with Jennifer Aniston and Paramount Pictures head CEO Brad Grey,
founded the production company, Plan B, in 2002.[75] Aniston is no longer a partner
in the company, although she is still attached to many projects that were set up before
her divorce from Pitt.[76] The company produced the 2005 film, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp,[77][78] as well as The Departed (2006),[79]
and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007).[78]
Pitt signing autographs
for troops during his
December 7, 2001 visit
to Incirlik Air Base,
Turkey
Pitt made a guest appearance in an eighth-season episode of Friends, as a man who
has a grudge against Aniston's character Rachel Green,[80] lent his voice on an
episode of King of the Hill, where he played Boomhauer's brother, Patch
Boomhauer,[81] and appeared on an episode of MTV's Jackass, in which he took part
in a staged abduction of himself. In a later Jackass episode, he and several cast
members ran wild through the streets of Los Angeles in gorilla suits.[82]
Pitt has been an active supporter of research into diseases such as AIDS. He is the
narrator of the acclaimed Public Television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health
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Challenge,[83] which discusses current important global health issues.[83] Pitt is behind 1ot On Our Watch, an
organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur,
along with George Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub.[84]
In 2006, Pitt gathered a group of housing professionals together in the Hurricane Katrina-stricken New Orleans
to begin planning a project that Pitt calls Make It Right, with the goal of financing and constructing 150 new
houses in New Orleans' Ninth Ward.[85][86] The houses are being designed with an emphasis on sustainability
and affordability, with the hope that the project can and will be replicated throughout the city, with the
assistance of Global Green USA, a national environmental organization.[87][88] Thirteen architectural firms are
involved in the project, many of which are donating their services. Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each
committed to matching $5 million in donations.[89][90]
In the media
In 1995, Pitt was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history.[8] Pitt has also twice
been named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine in 1995 and 2000.[91][92] Pitt has appeared on the
annual Celebrity 100 list by Forbes magazine in 2006 and 2007, at No. 20 and No. 5.[93][94] In 2007, Pitt was
listed among the Time 100 a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by
Time magazine.[95] He was credited, along with his best friend Tiago Miranda Paulo, with using "his star power
to get people to look at places and stories that cameras don't usually catch."[95]
In 2004, Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus to encourage students to vote in the 2004 US presidential
election,[96] in which he supported John Kerry.[96][97] Also, in 2004, he publicly spoke for funding a tax-free
embryonic stem-cell research that involves the cloning and destruction of human embryos.[98] Saying, "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."[98] He also supported California's ballot iniative, Proposition 71, where federal
government provide funding for research that use different types of stem cells, including adult and embryonic
stem cells.[99]
Pitt was also prominently featured in the December 2006 Art Issue of Vanity Fair.[100] He is seen posing in a
blue-colored photo in nothing but white boxer shorts, socks and holding a gun while appearing to be drenched
with water.[100] The cover promotes an article on the Robert Wilson video portraits, a production of LAB HD
that includes numerous celebrities and noted personalities.[100] This cover had drawn criticism from Pitt
because, although he had signed a release for the image, he did not expect it to end up on the cover of Vanity
Fair.[101][102] The video portrait, which represents Pitt's first effort in avant-garde cinema, was exhibited at the
2006 Tribeca Film Festival.[100]
Pitt supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[103][104] In September 2008, Pitt donated
$100,000 to fight California's November 2008 ballot, Proposition 8, initiative that would overturn the state
Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.[105] He stated, "Because no one has the right to deny
another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire
if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and
against Proposition 8.[106]
Personal life
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In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pitt dated several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head Of The Class),
Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),[108] Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia), who at sixteen
was ten years his junior when they started dating,[109][108] and Gwyneth Paltrow (Se7en),[108] with whom he
had a much-publicized engagement. Pitt also dated actresses Sinitta and Thandie Newton.[108]
[107][108]
In an October 7, 2007 interview, Pitt told Parade magazine that he is no longer a fundamentalist Christian or
believes in an afterlife. In this interview, Pitt said: "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here
and now, and I'm responsible."[9] He is also a knowledgeable fan of architecture, particularly that of Frank
Lloyd Wright, and has helped the National Trust for Historic Preservation raise money.[110]
Marriage to Jennifer Aniston
Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her during an enclosed wedding ceremony in
Malibu on July 29, 2000.[1][111] The couple ensured that the ceremony would be a private affair by hiring
hundreds of guards to block any attempts of invasion by the paparazzi; just one wedding picture was released to
the media.[112]
In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they decided to formally separate after seven years
together.[111] Two months later, Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[113][114]
As Pitt's marriage to Aniston drew to a close, he and actress Angelina Jolie were involved in a well-publicized
Hollywood scandal in which Jolie was often painted as the "other woman", largely due to their chemistry during
the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. While Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, speculations continued
to mount throughout 2004 and early 2005. In an interview in June 2005, Jolie explained, "To be intimate with a
married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at
myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."[115] Pitt and
Aniston's final divorce documents were granted by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005, ending
their marriage.[114]
Relationship with Angelina Jolie
One month after Aniston filed for divorce, in April 2005, a set of paparazzi photos emerged that seemed to
confirm the rumors of a relationship between Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie. The photos, which were reportedly
sold for $500,000, showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya.[116] During the summer, the pair
were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina".
Two months later, the highly anticipated July 2005 issue of W magazine hit newsstands, featuring Pitt and Jolie
posed as a couple.[117]
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In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia,[118] where Jolie adopted her
second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara;[118] later Jolie indicated that
she and Pitt made the decision to adopt the child together.[119] In December
2005, it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two
(adopted) children as his own; per the legal requirements, classified
advertisements in the Los Angeles paper Daily Commerce announced the
name change request.[120] On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved
this request, and the children's legal surnames were formally changed to "JoliePitt".[121]
On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People magazine that she was
pregnant with Pitt's child.[122] On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter,
Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia by a scheduled caesarean
Angelina Jolie and Pitt at the
section. Pitt confirmed that their newly born daughter will have a Namibian
Deauville American Film
Festival in September 2007
passport.[123] People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American
rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for
roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide, which became the most expensive
celebrity image of all time.[124] All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. Madame
Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax
by Madame Tussauds.[125][126]
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, (originally Pax
Thien Jolie). Since the orphanage does not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single
parent, with Pitt later adopting him as his son domestically.[127][128]
Following media reports suggesting Jolie might be pregnant again, she attended the Independent Spirit Awards
2008 in a close-fitting dress, indirectly confirming those rumors. People quoted a source who confirmed her
pregnancy.[129] In May 2008, Jolie confirmed on the Today show that they were expecting twins.[130] On July
12, 2008, Jolie gave birth to the couple's twins, a boy named Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt and a girl named Vivienne
Marcheline Jolie-Pitt at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France.[131] The next morning, Jolie's doctor, Michel
Sussmann, confirmed the birth details, Knox weighing 5.03 pounds, and Vivienne 5 pounds, both delivered via
an early caesarean section.[132][133][134] 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.[135][136] The money
went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.[135][137][138]
Filmography
Year
1987
Film
Role
1o Way Out
Officer at party
1o Man's Land
Waiter
Less Than Zero
Partygoer
Cutting Class
Dwight Ingalls
1990 Too Young to Die?
Other notes
Billy Canton
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Across the Tracks
1991 Thelma & Louise
Contact
Cox
Paul Maclean
Kalifornia
Early Grayce
True Romance
Floyd
The Favor
Elliott Fowler
Tristan Ludlow
Se7en
David Mills
Twelve Monkeys
Jeffrey Goines
The Devil's Own
Francis "Frankie" Austin
McQuire/Rory Devaney
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
The Dark Side of the Sun
Rick
Himself
Fight Club
Tyler Durden
Cameo
Mickey O'Neil
2001 Spy Game
2004
Joe Black/Man in the Coffee Shop
Being John Malkovich
The Mexican
2003
Won - Golden
Globe
Michael Sullivan
2000 Snatch
2002
Louis de Pointe du Lac
Legends of the Fall
1998 Meet Joe Black
1999
Detective Frank Harris
A River Runs Through It
1996 Sleepers
1997
J.D.
Johnny Suede
1994 Interview with the Vampire
1995
Joe Maloney
Johnny Suede
1992 Cool World
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Jerry Welbach
Tom Bishop
Ocean's Eleven
Rusty Ryan
Full Frontal
Brad/Himself
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Brad, Bachelor #1
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad
Voice Actor
Abby Singer
Himself
Cameo
Troy
Achilles
Ocean's Twelve
Rusty Ryan
2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
John Smith
2006 Babel
Richard
2007 Ocean's Thirteen
Rusty Ryan
With Angelina
Jolie
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2008
2009
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Jesse James
Burn After Reading
Chad Feldheimer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Benjamin Button
awaiting release
Tree of Life
Mr. O'Brien
post-production
Inglourious Basterds
Lt. Aldo Raine
filming
Producer
The Departed (2006)
Running with Scissors (2006)
Year of the Dog (2007) (executive producer)
A Mighty Heart (2007) (Co-producer)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Time Traveler's Wife (2008)
Awards and nominations
Awards won:
1993: ShoWest Convention: Male Star of Tomorrow
1995: MTV Movie Awards: Best Male Performance for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles
1995: MTV Movie Awards: Most Desirable Male for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles
1996: MTV Movie Awards: Most Desirable Male for Se7en
1996: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Best Supporting Actor for Twelve Monkeys
1996: Golden Globes: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Twelve
Monkeys
1996: Sci-Fi Universe Magazine: Best Supporting Actor in a Genre Motion Picture for Twelve Monkeys
1997: Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Supporting Actor, Science Fiction for Twelve
Monkeys
1998: Rembrandt Awards: Best Actor for Seven Years in Tibet
2004: Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie Actor, Drama/Action Adventure for Troy
2005: People's Choice Awards: Favorite Leading Man
2006: MTV Movie Awards: Best Fight Scene for Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2007: Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup best actor: Best Actor for The Assassination of Jesse James
Awards nominations:
1995: Golden Globes: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for Legends of the Fall
1995: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Best Actor for Interview with the Vampire:
The Vampire Chronicles
1996: Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Twelve Monkeys
1995: MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Duo for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire
Chronicles
1996: MTV Movie Awards: Best Male Performance for Twelve Monkeys
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1996: MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Duo for Se7en
2000: Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Action Team for Fight Club
2001: Golden Satellite Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
for Snatch
2001: Teen Choice Awards: Choice Chemistry for The Mexican
2002: Emmy Awards: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Friends ("The One with the
Rumor")
2002: MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Team for Ocean's Eleven
2004: Kids' Choice Awards: Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven
Seas
2005: Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Acting Ensemble for Ocean's Twelve
2006: MTV Movie Awards: Best On-Screen Kiss for Mr. and Mrs. Smith
2007: Golden Globes: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Babel
See also
Supercouple
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External links
Brad Pitt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/) at the Internet Movie Database
Brad Pitt (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018965) at Yahoo! Movies
Brad Pitt (http://www.people.com/people/brad_pitt) at People.com
Not On Our Watch: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Jerry Weintraub
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Richard Gere and Cindy
Crawford
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1993)
People's Sexiest Man Alive
1995
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Denzel Washington
People's Sexiest Man Alive
2000
Succeeded by
Pierce Brosnan
(no award given in 1994)
Preceded by
Richard Gere
Awards and achievements
Saturn Award
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Gary Sinise
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Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1995
for Twelve Monkeys
Succeeded by
Brent Spiner
for Star Trek: First Contact
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by
Martin Landau
for Ed Wood
Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1996
for Twelve Monkeys
Succeeded by
Edward ;orton
for Primal Fear
Venice Film Festival
Preceded by
Ben Affleck
for Hollywoodland
Best Actor
2007
for The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
Succeeded by
TBD
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