Brad Pitt majored in journalism at the University of Missouri, but dropped out two weeks before graduation, when he decided to become an actor. He told his family he was going to attend art design school in Los Angeles, but that was a lie. Instead he drove to California in his Datsun -- nicknamed "Runaround Sue" -- and suffered through months of failed auditions. While he was a struggling actor, he worked as a refrigerator deliveryman, limo driver, and wore a chicken suit to promote El Pollo Loco, a chain of Mexican restaurants.
Meanwhile, after several more small parts, Pitt scored big as a sweet-talkin' hitchhiker who wooed Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise, and as the misfit rebel in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It. Anne Rice stated publicly that she thought Pitt was all wrong for the film of her novel Interview with the Vampire, but she changed her mind when she saw the movie. In his best performances, Pitt played the naïve new detective in the gruesome Se7en with Morgan Freeman, the mentally disturbed animal-rights activist in Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys, the kid from Hell's Kitchen who became District Attorney in Sleepers with Robert De Niro, the soap salesman who packs a punch in Fight Club with Edward Norton, the boxer with a thick Irish accent in Snatch with Dennis Farina, a poker-playing con man in Oceans Eleven with George Clooney, a prince of Greece in the historical epic Troy with Eric Bana, and the American tourist in Mexico whose wife (Cate Blanchett) is shot in Babel.
[1] Raised Baptist, but described himself in a 2009 interview with Bild as "probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic".
Father: William Alvin Pitt (owns trucking company, b. 1941)
Mother: Jane Etta Hillhouse Pitt (high school couselor, b. 1940, m. 11-Aug-1962)
Brother: Doug Pitt (owns computer service shop, b. 1966)
Sister: Julie Neal Pitt (homemaker, b. 1969)
Girlfriend: Shalane McCall (actress, dated 1987)
Girlfriend: Jill Schoelen (actress, b. 1963, dated 1989)
Girlfriend: Robin Givens (actress, dated 1989)
Girlfriend: Juliette Lewis (dated and cohabited, 1989-93)
Girlfriend: Thandie Newton (actress, dated 1994)
Girlfriend: Gwyneth Paltrow (actress, dated and engaged, 1994-97)
Girlfriend: Sonita Henry (actress, b. 1977, dated 1998)
Wife: Jennifer Aniston (actress, dated 1998-2000, m. 29-Jul-2000, div. 2-Oct-2005)
Mistress: April Florio (actress, b. 1982, 2003 affair, according to her)
Wife: Angelina Jolie (actress, cohabiting since 2005, m. 23-Aug-2014, three sons, three daughters)
Son: Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Cambodian orphan, b. 5-Aug-2001, adopted by Jolie Mar-2002, adopted by Pitt 2006)
Daughter: Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Ethiopian orphan, b. 2005, adopted by Jolie 2005, adopted by Pitt 2006))
Daughter: Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (b. 27-May-2006)
Son: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Vietnamese orphan, adopted 2007)
Son: Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (twin b. 12-Jul-2008)
Daughter: Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (twin b. 12-Jul-2008)
High School: Kickapoo High School, Springfield, MO (1982)
University: University of Missouri (dropped out)
Endorsement of Honda Integra
Endorsement of TAG Heuer
El Pollo Loco (in Chicken Costume)
Key Club
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Golden Globe 1996 for Twelve Monkeys
Indecent Exposure Malibu, CA, charge dropped
Disturbing the Peace Malibu, CA
Wedding: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones (2000)
Risk Factors: Former Smoker, Vegetarian, Marijuana
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Deadpool 2 (1-May-2018)
War Machine (26-May-2017)
Allied (13-Nov-2016)
The Big Short (12-Nov-2015)
Down By the Sea (5-Nov-2015)
Fury (15-Oct-2014)
The Counselor (25-Oct-2013)
12 Years a Slave (30-Aug-2013)
World War Z (2-Jun-2013)
Killing Them Softly (22-May-2012)
Happy Feet Two (17-Nov-2011) · Will the Krill [VOICE]
Moneyball (9-Sep-2011) · Billy Beane
The Tree of Life (16-May-2011) · Mr. O'Brien
Megamind (30-Oct-2010) · Metro Man [VOICE]
Inglourious Basterds (20-May-2009)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (25-Dec-2008) · Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading (27-Aug-2008)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2-Sep-2007)
Ocean's Thirteen (24-May-2007)
Babel (23-May-2006) · Richard
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (9-Jun-2005) · John Smith
Ocean's Twelve (8-Dec-2004)
Troy (9-May-2004) · Achilles
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2-Jul-2003) · Sinbad [VOICE]
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (31-Dec-2002) · Bachelor Brad
Full Frontal (2-Aug-2002) · Himself
Ocean's Eleven (5-Dec-2001) · Rusty Ryan
Spy Game (19-Nov-2001)
America: A Tribute to Heroes (21-Sep-2001) · Himself
The Mexican (2-Mar-2001)
Snatch (23-Aug-2000) · Mickey O'Neil
Fight Club (6-Oct-1999)
Meet Joe Black (2-Nov-1998) · Joe Black
The Dark Side of the Sun (20-Dec-1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (13-Sep-1997)
The Devil's Own (13-Mar-1997) · Rory Devaney
Sleepers (18-Oct-1996) · Michael
Twelve Monkeys (27-Dec-1995) · Jeffrey Goines
Se7en (22-Sep-1995) · Mills
Legends of the Fall (16-Dec-1994) · Tristan
Interview with the Vampire (11-Nov-1994) · Louis
The Favor (29-Apr-1994) · Elliott
True Romance (10-Sep-1993)
Kalifornia (3-Sep-1993) · Early Grayce
A River Runs Through It (13-Sep-1992) · Paul Maclean
Cool World (10-Jul-1992) · Frank Harris
Johnny Suede (Aug-1991) · Johnny Suede
Thelma & Louise (24-May-1991) · J. D.
Across the Tracks (1991) · Joe Maloney
Too Young to Die? (26-Feb-1990) · Billy Canton
The Image (27-Jan-1990)
Cutting Class (Jul-1989)
Happy Together (4-May-1989)
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AKA William Bradley Pitt