Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and Movie producer.

Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt - Hollywood California - July 2019
Born	William Bradley Pitt (1963-12-18) December 18, 1963 (age 61) Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Occupations	Actor movie producer
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Jennifer Aniston ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2005)​ Angelina Jolie ​ ​ (m. 2014; div. 2019)​
Children	6

Early life

William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counsellor, and William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company.^[1][2] He was born into a conservative household.^[3] The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Douglas Mitchell Pitt (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969).^[4] He was raised as Southern Baptist.^[5] Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country", having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes".^[6]

Career

Pitt's television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.^[7] In 1995 Pitt won two MTV Movie Awards for his role in Interview with the Vampire. He played Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Pitt produced the 2013 movie 12 Years a Slave. He also played a small role in the movie.

He starred in two Quentin Tarantino movies: Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In 2020, he won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Philanthropy and activism

In September 2006, Pitt and Angelina Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world. In January 2010, the foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.^[8]

In September 2012, Pitt reaffirmed his support for Obama, saying, "I am an Obama supporter and I'm backing his U.S. election campaign."^[9]