William Bradley Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer, oftentimes referred to as one of the most bankable actors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries of Hollywood. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to a middle-class family on December 18th, 1963. He is about 5 feet 11 inches tall (180 cm), has dazzling blue eyes, blond hair, and is known for his sporty physique, all of which are features that paved the way for his early career in acting. Brad Pitt was brought up in Springfield, Missouri, by his dad, William Alvin Pitt, who was the owner of a truck company, and his mom, Jane Etta Pi, who was a school counsellor. He has one brother, Douglas (Doug) and one sister, Julie. While in high school, he competed in sports and was part of extracurricular activities, but he never stopped dreaming of a career in the performing arts. He attended the University of Missouri for a short period of time, where he was a journalism and advertising major before deciding to leave one semester away from graduation to go and try his luck in acting in Los Angeles. Brad Pitt’s transition to the show business industry was not immediate. His first film roles were in low-budget, uncredited, or minor characters during the late 1980s. Among them were appearances in Another World and The Dark Side of the Sun. He played a broad range of characters through the early ’90s that, first, opened his artistic toolbox, and, second, made him more attractive to the public.
Pitt’s journey into the entertainment industry was quite gradual. He only had unnoticeable parts in the late 1980s. For example, he was in Another World and The Dark Side of the Sun. During the 1990s, Pitt acted in a wide variety of roles, which made him famous, and people started to like him more. After that, he was in movies like Thelma & Louis, A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall. These movies, like Thelma & Louise and A River Runs Through It And Legends of the Fall, were the ones that made Pitt a big star. Pitt kept going in this way by picking diverse and daring characters in very good and popular films like 12 Monkeys (1995), Fight Club (1999), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Pitt earned many awards during his time in the industry. In particular, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and was a producer on 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Picture at the Oscars. In addition to this, he was recognised by the BAFTA and the Golden Globe, which are two other very important awards, showing that he was a great artist not only in front of the camera but also behind it.
Personal Life and Relationships
Throughout his life, Pitt’s personal affairs have been the subject of media attention. He has been romantically involved with several well-known people. Right at the start of his career, he was dating actresses like Robin Givens and Juliette Lewis and later on, he was involved with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Claire Forlani. He married Jennifer Aniston in 2000, and the two parted ways in 2005. Not long after, Pitt hooked up with Joli, and their relationship lasted until their marriage in 2014. They got divorced in 2024 after a long legal battle.
Currently, Pitt is dating Ines de Ramon, a jewellery executive. They started dating toward the end of 2022 and have been spotted together at different events, which indicates that they are a couple in his life after the breakup.
Children and Family
Brad Pitt is a father to six kids with Angelina Jolie. He has three kids that he adopted and three kids that are his biological children, with Angelina Jolie:
- Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (adopted, b. 2001)
- Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (adopted, b. 2003)
- Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (adopted, b. 2005)
- Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (b. 2006)
- Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (twins, b. 2008)
