William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American film actor and producer. He has received numerous awards and nominations including the Academy Award as a producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy rider on a road movie Thelma & amp; Louise (1991). His first major role in the production of the big budget came with the drama film A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and horror film Interview with Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction 12 Monkeys (both 1995), the latter earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and Nomination Academy Award.
Pitt starred in the film Fight Club cult (1999) and the movie theft of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His biggest commercial success was Troy (2004), Mr. & amp; Mrs. Smith (2005), and World War Z (2013). Pitt received the second and third Academy Award nominations for her outstanding performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). He produced The Departed (2006) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), both won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also The Tree of Life >, Moneyball and The Big Short (2015) are all nominated for Best Picture.
As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. For several years, he was mentioned as the most interesting person in the world by various media, and his personal life was the subject of vast publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston after five years of marriage, she married actress Angelina Jolie in 2014. They have six children together, three of whom are internationally adopted. In 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, who is currently pending.
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William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, who runs a trucking company, and Jane Etta (nÃÆ' Â © e Hillhouse), a school counselor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived with his younger siblings, Douglas (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969). Born in a conservative household, he grew up as a Southern Baptist, but has since declared that he does not "have a great relationship with religion" and that he "oscillates between agnosticism and atheism". Pitt described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, country Jesse James", growing up with "many hills, many lakes".
Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he became a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. She participated in the school's Key and Forensics club, in a school debate, and in the musical. After graduating from high school, Pitt enrolled at the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt felt unprepared to stay. He liked the movie - "a portal to a different world to me" - and, since the movie was not made in Missouri, he decided to go where they were made. Two weeks before getting her degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where she took acting lessons and worked odd jobs. He has named his early acting heroes as Gary Oldman, Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke.
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Careers
1987-1993: Initial work
While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took a lesson from acting coach Roy London. Pitt's acting career began in 1987, with parts not described in No No Way Out movies, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero >. His television debut came in May 1987 with the role of two episodes in the soap opera NBC Other World . In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC Growing Pains sitcom ABC . She appeared in four episodes of the primetime CBS series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the girlfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall). Then in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance in the Fox drama drama 21 Jump Street. That same year, Yugoslavia-US. co-production of the Dark Sun Side (1988) gave Pitt the first lead role of his first film, as an American youth taken by his family to the Adriatic to look for a cure for skin conditions. The film was kept at the time of the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. Pitt made two film appearances in 1989: the first in a supporting role in the Happy Together comedy; the second is the lead role in the horror film Cutting Class , Pitt's first film to reach the cinema. She made guest appearances on the Headline Class series, Freddy's Nightmares Thirtysomething, and (for the second time) Growing Pains >
Pitt plays Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of the young runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the 1990 NBC television show Too Young to Die? , the story of an ill-treated teenager who was sentenced to death for murder. Ken Tucker, television reviewer for Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Pitt is a slimmer as a sweating girlfriend, looking and sounding like an evil John Cougar Mellencamp, he's really scary." That same year, Pitt starred in six episodes of the short-lived Fox drama Glory Days and took on a supporting role in the HBO movie The Image . His subsequent appearances appeared in the 1991 film Across the Tracks; Pitt plays Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder. After years of supporting film roles and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt gained wider recognition in his supporting role in Ridley Scott's 1991 road road movie. Thelma & amp; Louise . He plays J.D., a small villain who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). Her love scene with Davis has been cited as an event that defines Pitt as a sex symbol. After Thelma & amp; Louise , Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture of an aspiring rock star, and the 1992 live/animated action fantasy Cool World i>, despite not continuing his career, has poor reviews and box office performance.
Pitt took on the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biopic of A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford. Her portrayal of characters is depicted by Janet Mock's ' as a career-making appearance, proving that Pitt can be more than a "cowboy." She has admitted feeling depressed when filming and thinks of it as one of the "weakest shows... It's so weird that it ends up being the person I care about most." Pitt believes that he benefited from working with such talented players and crew. He compared working with Redford to play tennis with a superior player, saying "when you play with someone better than you, your game gets better." In 1993, Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis for the California road movie . He plays Early Grayce, a serial killer and Lewis character girl in the show described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as "a wonderful charm, all boys and then a grunt that emits a pure threat." Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in hit cult of True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing much-needed comic help for action films. She closed the year by winning the ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.
1994-1998: Breakthrough
1994 marked a significant turning point in Pitt's career. Starring as a vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror film Interview with Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name, she is part of an ensemble player including Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. Despite winning two MTV Movie Awards at the 1995 ceremony, his performance was less than welcome. According to Dallas Observer , "Brad Pitt [...] is a big part of the problem [in the movie].When the director plays smug, hunkish, folksy side [...] he likes to watch. anything about him showing inner torture or even self-awareness, which makes him a boring Louis. "After the release of Vampires Interview, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (1994) , based on a novel of the same name by Jim Harrison, housed in West America during the first four decades of the 20th century. Describing Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant, Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category. Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt's brother. Despite the diversity of film receipts, many film critics praised Pitt's performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "The mixture of acting and Pitt's attitude to work for such heart perfection is shameful that the superficiality of the film is blocking its path." The Deseret News predicts that Legends of the Fall will reinforce Pitt's reputation as the lead actor.
In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the criminal thriller Seven , playing detectives in the footsteps of a serial killer. Pitt called it a great movie and claimed that it would broaden his acting horizons. He expressed his intention to move away from "this 'beautiful boy' [...] and play someone with flaws." His performance was well received, with Variety saying that it was the best screen acting, further commenting on Pitt's ability to submit "specified, energetic, creditable" jobs as a detective. Seven earned $ 327 million at international box office. Following the success of Seven , Pitt took on a supporting role as Jeffrey Goines in the 1995 science fiction film Terry Gilliam 12 Monkeys . The film received positive reviews, with Pitt praising in particular. Janet Maslin of the New York Times called the Twelve Monkeys "fierce and disturbing" and commented on Pitt's "shocking panic appearance", concluding that he "thrilled Jeffrey with a strange magnet that becomes important later in the film. "She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film and received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
The following year he had a role in the drama law Sleepers (1996), based on the novel Lorenzo Carcaterra of the same name. The film received mixed reviews. In Pitt's 1997 film The Devil's Own Pitt starred against Harrison Ford as Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany, a role that required him to study Irish accents. Critical opinions are divided into accents; "Pitt finds the exact moral ambiguity, but sometimes his Irish accent is too convincing - it's hard to understand what he's saying," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle. The Charleston Gazette i> believes that it has favored Pitt's accent over the film. The Devil's Own earned $ 140 million worldwide, but it is a critical failure. Later that year he led Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer in the movie Jean-Jacques Annaud Seven Years in Tibet . Pitt was trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking exercises, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with co-star David Thewlis. The film received mostly negative reviews, and was generally regarded as a disappointment. Pitt had a lead role in the fantasy love movie of 1998 Meet Joe Black . He describes the personification of death that inhabits a young man's body to learn how it feels to be human. The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt's performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt can not "make the audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and immortality." Roger Ebert stated "Pitt is a good actor, but the show is miscalculated."
1999-2003
In 1999, Pitt plays Tyler Durden on the Fight Club, a film adapted from Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher. Pitt prepared a section with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and wrestling. To view the passage, Pitt approved the removal of the restored pieces of his front teeth when the filming ended. When promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the movie was explored not taking someone's aggression on others but to "have experience, take more punches and see how you came out on the other end." Fight Club aired at the Venice International Film Festival 1999. Despite sharing critical opinions on the film as a whole, Pitt's performance is widely praised. Paul Clinton of CNN notes the nature of a risky but successful film, while Variety says Pitt's ability to be "cool, charismatic and more physically dynamic, may be from [...] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise ". Regardless of the poorer-than-expected performance of the box office, the Fight Club became a cult classic after the DVD release in 2000.
Pitt plays Irish Gypsy boxer with an almost incomprehensible accent in Guy Ritchie 2000 's Snatch gangster. Some reviewers are very critical of Snatch ; However, Pitt is most praised. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle says Pitt "ideally acts as an Irishman whose accent is very thick even Brits can not understand it", goes on to say it, before Pitching Pitt has been "shackled by a role that calls for contemplation of introspection, but recently he has found his vocation in black comic hype and striking extroverts;" while Amy Taubin from The Village Voice claimed that "Pitt got the maximum comic mileage from the role of a joke". The following year Pitt starred in Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican , a movie that garnered a variety of reviews but enjoyed box office success. Pitt's next role in the $ 143 million last year's Cold War thriller, Spy Game, is Tom Bishop, the operations of the CIA's Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford's character. Mark Holcomb from Salon.com enjoys the movie, although he notes that neither Pitt nor Redford provides "many emotional connections to the audience".
On November 22, 2001, Pitt made guest appearances in the eighth season of the TV series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married in time. For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Guest Actor category in the Comedy Series. In December 2001, Pitt plays Rusty Ryan in the movie theft of Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the original 1960 Rat Pack. He joins ensemble players including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy GarcÃÆ'a and Julia Roberts. Well received by critics, Ocean's Eleven is very successful at the box office, generating $ 450 million worldwide. Pitt appeared in two episodes of the MTV series Jackass reality in February 2002, first walking through the streets of Los Angeles with some cast members in a gorilla suit, and participating in his own kidnapping in other episodes. That same year, Pitt had a cameo role in the debut of director George Clooney Confessions of a Dangerous Mind . He took on his first acting-sound role in 2003, speaking as a titular character from the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and playing Boomhauer's brother Patch in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill .
2004-2013
Pitt had two major film roles in 2004, starring as Achilles in Troy , and repeating his role, Rusty Ryan, in the sequel to Ocean's Twelve . He spent six months of sword training before the filming of Troy , based on Iliad . Injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the image for several weeks. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Times stated that Pitt excelled in such a demanding role. Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Gray, CEO of Paramount Pictures. The Twelve Ocean earned $ 362 million worldwide, and the dynamics of Pitt and Clooney were described by CNN's Paul Clinton as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford." In 2005, Pitt starred in the action comedy Doug Liman-directed & amp; Mrs. Smith , in which the married couple got bored discovering that each was a murderer sent to kill the other. This feature received reasonable reviews but was generally praised for the chemistry between Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who played the character's wife, Jane Smith. The Star Tribune notes that "while the story feels haphazard, it gets its gregarious charm, stellar energy, and thermonuclear chemical screen." sir. & amp; Mrs. Smith earned $ 478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.
For the next film, Pitt starred Cate Blanchett in the multi-narrative drama Alejandro González IÃÆ' Â ± ÃÆ'¡rritu Babel (2006). Pitt's performance is very well received, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that he's credible and gives movie visibility. Pitt later said he considered taking part as one of the best decisions of his career. The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and later featured at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe nominations, won Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt's nomination for Actors Best Supporting Golden Globe. In the same year, the company Pitt Plan B Entertainment produced The Departed , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Pitt is credited on-screen as a producer; However, only Graham King is destined for an Oscar win.
Repeating her role as Rusty Ryan in the third picture, Pitt starred in 2007's Ocean's Thirteen . Although less profitable than the first two films, this sequel generates $ 311 million at the international box office. The role of Pitt's next film is as American criminal Jesse James in the 2007 Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford, adapted from 1983 Ron Hansen's novel of the same name. Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by the company Pitt Plan B Entertainment, the film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, with Pitt playing a "scary and charismatic role", according to Lewis Beale of the International Film Journal, and was awarded Pitt the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. He finally collected the award one year later at the 2008 festival.
Pitt's next appearance was in the 2008 Burn I Love black comedy, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly bound telescopic comedy," and noted that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest. He later served as Benjamin Button, the lead actor in the 2008 David Fincher movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a loosely adapted version of a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who was born as a child in his eighties and centuries in reverse, with Pitt's "sensitive" appearance making Benjamin Button an "eternal masterpiece", according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun. . The show earned Pitt her first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, as well as all four Golden Globe nominations and a second Academy Award nomination, all in the category for Best Actor. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total, and grossed $ 329 million at box office worldwide.
Pitt's main role came in 2009 with a war film directed at Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter fighting Nazis in occupied France German. The film is a box office hit, taking $ 311 million worldwide, and garnering generally favorable reviews. The film received numerous awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt. He next voiced the Metro Man superhero character in the 2010 animated feature Megamind . Pitt was produced and appeared in experimental drama Terrence Malick The Tree of Life , starring Sean Penn, who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2011. In a show that drew strong praise, he described the manager common Oakland Athletics Billy Beane in the drama Moneyball , which is based on a 2003 book with the same name written by Michael Lewis. Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt.
The next role is as Jackie Cogan's assassin at Andrew Dominik 2012 Killing Them Softly , based on George V. Higgins's Cogan Trade novel. In 2013, Pitt starred in World War Z , a thriller about the zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks novel of the same name. Pitt also produced the film. World War Z earned $ 540 million at worldwide box office, becoming Pitt's best-selling picture. Furthermore, in 2013, it produces, and plays a small role in, <12 Years a Slave , a historical drama based on Solomon Northup's autobiography. The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Picture. Also in 2013, Pitt has a supporting role at Ridley Scott The Counselor . Plan B Entertainment landed its first TV series on the 2013-2014 schedule, as their joint venture with ABC Studios, the sci-fi/fantasy Awakening drama, was picked up by ABC.
2014-present
Pitt starred in Fury , a World War II film directed and written by David Ayer, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal and Michael PeÃÆ'Â ± a. The film was released on October 17, 2014. At the end of its influence, Fury proved to be a commercial and critical success; it grossed over $ 211 million worldwide and received very positive reviews from critics. In 2015, Pitt starred in his wife, Jolie, in his third director, By the Sea, a romantic drama about marriage in crisis, based on the scenario. This film is their first collaboration since 2005 & amp; Mrs. Smith . Pitt's next role comes with the biographical comedy drama The Big Short , which he also produced. The film is a commercial success and critical. It became over $ 102 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, making Pitt her third Academy Award nominee as producer. In 2016, Pitt starred in romantic thriller Robert Zemeckis Allied , in which he plays a killer spy who falls in love with a French spy (played by Marion Cotillard) during a mission to kill a German official in World War II. In 2017, he starred in the satirical comedy comedy Netflix War Machine , which he also produced. Pitt played a recurring role as a weather expert on a late-night talk show at The Jim Jefferies Show during 2017.
In 2016 it was announced that Pitt would star in the upcoming sequel to World War Z , with an official release date set as 9 June 2017. However, as early as 2017, the release date is announced indefinitely. late. In June, David Fincher was confirmed to direct the sequel World War Z , marking the fourth collaboration of Pitt and Fincher. Furthermore, Pitt will star in the space epic of James Gray Ad Astra, where he will play a slightly autistic space engineer, Roy McBride who searched across the galaxy for his father, played by Tommy Lee Jones. In February 2018, it was announced that Pitt would star in Leonardo DiCaprio as Cliff Booth, a substitute cast, in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming A Time in Hollywood movie about the Manson Family's murder.
Humanitarian and political causes
Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October 2004 to encourage students to vote in the 2004 US presidential election, where he supported John Kerry. Then in October he openly supported the principle of public funding for embryonic stem cell research. "We have to make sure we open this path so that the best and brightest we can find the drugs they believe they will find," he said. To support this he supports Proposition 71, a California voting initiative intended to provide state government funding for stem cell research.
Pitt supports ONE Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in developing countries. He narrated the 2005 PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which addresses current global health problems. The following year Pitt and Jolie flew to Haiti, where they visited a school supported by YÃÆ' Â © le HaÃÆ'¯ti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. In May 2007, Pitt and Jolie donated $ 1 million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region. Together with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention on stopping "mass atrocities".
Pitt has an ongoing interest in architecture, even taking time away from films to learn computer-aided design at Los Angeles's famous architect's office, Frank Gehry. He narrates Design e2 , a PBS television series that focuses on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design. In 2000, he co-authored architectural books at Blacker House with architects Thomas A. Heinz and Randell Makinson. In 2006, he founded the Make It Right Foundation, which organizes housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and build 150 affordable new homes in New Orleans's Ninth Ward after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
The project involves 13 architecture companies and environmental organizations Global Green USA, with several companies donating their services. Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing each have a $ 5 million commitment. The first six houses were completed in October 2008, and in September 2009 Pitt received awards in recognition of the project of the US Green Building Council, a nonprofit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated. Pitt met with US President Barack Obama and Representative Nancy Pelosi in March 2009 to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss possible federal funding.
In September 2006, Pitt and Jolie formed a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to help humanitarian causes around the world. The Foundation made an initial contribution of $ 1 million each for Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders, followed by a $ 100,000 October 2006 donation to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an organization created to commemorate US journalist Daniel Pearl. According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $ 8.5 million into foundations in 2006; it provided $ 2.4 million in 2006 and $ 3.4 million in 2007. In June 2009, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $ 1 million to a US refugee agency to help displaced Pakistanis by fighting between troops and Taliban militants. In January 2010, the foundation donated $ 1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical help to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage. In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he would marry Jolie when everybody in America could legally marry. In September 2008, he donated $ 100,000 for the campaign against the 2008 calendar proposition proposal of California, an initiative to overturn a state Supreme Court decision that has legalized same-sex marriage. In March 2012, Pitt was featured in the drama show Dustin Lance Black, '8' - a gradual review of a federal court that overturned the Prop of California ban on same-sex marriage - as Judge Vaughn Walker.
In September 2012, Pitt reiterated his support for President Obama, saying, "I am a supporter of Obama and I support his election campaign in the US."
Personal life
Relationships
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens (Head Class), Jill Schoelen ( Cutting Class ), and Juliette Lewis ( Too Young to Die? and California ). In addition, Pitt has a widely publicized romance and engagement with his colleague Seven, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997.
Pitt met actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000. In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced that they had decided to split up. Two months later, Aniston filed for divorce, arguing that the differences could not be reconciled. The divorce of Pitt and Aniston was completed by the Los Angeles Superior Court on October 2, 2005. Despite media reports that Pitt and Aniston had a fierce relationship, Pitt said in an interview in February 2009 that he and Aniston "checked in with each other", adding that they both big parts of their respective lives.
During Pitt's divorce, his involvement with Mr. & amp; Mrs Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted media attention. Jolie states that there is no infidelity, and Pitt and Jolie state that they "fall in love" on set. In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photos appeared showing Pitt, Jolie and her son, Maddox on a beach in Kenya; the press interpreted the pictures as evidence of the relationship between Pitt and Jolie. During 2005, both were seen along with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the "Brangelina" couple. On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to the People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thus openly confessing their relationship for the first time. Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April 2012 after seven years together. They were married on August 23, 2014, in a private ceremony in ChÃÆ'Â Ã ¢ teau Miraval, France. On September 19, 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.
Children
In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he adopted his second son, Zahara Marley. On December 3, 2005, Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of both children; on January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Jolie's request to change the children's surname from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt". The adoption process was soon completed.
Jolie gave birth to her daughter Shiloh Nouvel in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. Pitt insists that their newborn daughter will qualify for a Namibian passport. The couple sold the first photo of Shiloh through a Getty Images distributor; North American rights are purchased by People for more than $ 4.1 million, while Hello! earned UK rights about $ 3.5 million. The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children. Madame Tussauds in New York launches a two-month-old Shiloh candle statue; it marks the first time a baby was recreated by a candle by Madame Tussauds.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three year old Pax Thien from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 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 the son of Knox LÃ © Â © and her daughter Vivienne Marcheline on July 12, 2008 in Nice, France. The rights to the first pictures of Knox and Vivienne are jointly sold to People and Hello! for $ 14 million - the most expensive celebrity photo ever taken. The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
In media
Pitt's sex appeal has been taken by many sources, including Empire, who named him one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history in 1995. That same year, Pitt won the " people of Sexiest Man Alive, an award he won again in 2000. Pitt appeared on the list of the 100 most famous celebrities in 2006, 2007, and 2008 in the Forbes 100 year number in No. 1. , No. 5, and No. 10 each. In 2007, it was listed among Time 100, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, selected annually by TIME . The magazine praised Pitt for using his "star power to get people to see where [cameras] usually do not catch". Pitt was once again included in Time 100 in 2009, this time in the Builders and Titans list.
Beginning in 2005, Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie became one of the most widely reported celebrity stories in the world. After confirming that Jolie was pregnant in early 2006, the significant media hype surrounding the couple reached what Reuters, in a story titled "Bramelina Fever," which is called "the point of madness". To avoid media attention, the couple flew to Namibia for the birth of their daughter Shiloh, described by a paparazzi blog as "the most awaited baby since Jesus Christ." Similarly, intense media interest greeted the announcement two years later about Jolie's second pregnancy; For two weeks Jolie spent time at a seaside hospital in Nice, reporters and photographers camped outside on the balcony to report births.
In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Pitt, along with Jolie, was found to be a favorite celebrity supporter for brands and products worldwide. Pitt has appeared in several television commercials. For the US market, he starred in Heineken commercials that aired during the Super Bowl in 2005; it was directed by David Fincher, who has directed Pitt in Seven , Fight Club , and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button . Other commercial appearances come in television venues including Acura Integra, where he performs in front of the Russian model Tatiana Sorokko, as well as SoftBank, and Edwin Jeans. On June 2, 2015, minor planet 29132 Bradpitt was named in his honor.
Awards and nominations
Movieography
See also
References
External links
- Brad Pitt in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Brad Pitt on IMDb
- Brad Pitt in Biography
- Brad Pitt in Box Office Mojo
- Brad Pitt at Charlie Rose
- Brad Pitt at Huffington Post
- Works by or about Brad Pitt in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- "Brad Pitt collects news and comments". The New York Times .
- "Brad Pitt collects news and comments". The Guardian .
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