Brad Pitt

Born: December 18, 1963

Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and grew up in Springfield, Missouri, eldest of three children. His father, Bill Pitt, owned a trucking company businessman and his mother, Jane Pitt a family counselor. Pitt studied journalism at the University of Missouri. 

Intended to enroll in the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California, but instead spent the next several months as limousine driver and trying to break into the L.A. acting scene. Joined an acting class after seven months in Los Angeles, he had an agent and regular acting work.

Relationships

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens, Jill Schoelen and Juliette Lewis , who, at the age of 16, was ten years his junior when they started dating. He also had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.

Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000. For years their marriage was considered a rare Hollywood success; however, in January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they had decided formally to separate after seven years together. Two months later Aniston filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Pitt and Aniston's divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005, legally ending their marriage. 

During Pitt's divorce from Aniston, his involvement with his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted vigorous media attention. While Pitt denied claims of adultery, he admitted that he "fell in love" with Jolie on the set. In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the pictures were construed in the press as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie. During the summer of 2005, the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina”. On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time. In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he and Jolie would marry when everyone in America is legally able to marry

Children

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, six-month-old Zahara Marley, a decision which Jolie later stated she and Pitt had made together. It was confirmed, in December 2005, that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children, Zahara and Cambodia-born Maddox Chivan; on January 19, 2006, a California judge granted their request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt". The adoptions were finalized "not long before" the birth of the couple's first biological child.

Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would have a Namibian passport. 

On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted three-year-old Pax Thien from Vietnam. Since Vietnam does not allow unmarried couples to adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent. In April 2007, Jolie filed a request to legally change her son's surname from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt", which was approved on May 31, 2007. Pitt adopted Pax in the United States on February 21, 2008.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins. She gave birth to son Knox Léon and daughter Vivienne Marcheline on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France.  

Religion

In an October 2007 interview, Pitt revealed that he is no longer a Christian and does not believe in an afterlife. "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible." In a July 2009 interview he said that he did not believe in God, and that he was "probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic."

Films

1991 Thelma & Louise

1991 Across the Tracks

1992 A River Runs Through It

1992 Johnny Suede

1992 Cool World

1993 Kalifornia

1993 True Romance

1994 Legends of the Fall

1994 Interview with the Vampire

1994 The Favor

1995 Seven

1995 12 Monkeys

1996 Sleepers

1997 Seven Years in Tibet

1997 The Devil's Own

1998 Meet Joe Black

1999 Fight Club

1999 Being John Malkovich

2000 To the White Sea

2000 The Mexican

2001 Spy Game

2001 Ocean's Eleven

2003 Full Frontal

2004 Troy

2004 Ocean's Twelve

2005 Mr & Mrs Smith

2006 Babel

2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 Ocean's Thirteen

2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2008 Burn After Reading

2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2009 Inglourious Basterds

2010 Megamind

2011 The Tree of Life

2011 Moneyball

2011 Happy Feet Two

2012 Cogan's Trade

2012 World War Z