Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt is one of Hollywood's most bankable and tabloid-magnified stars, an Oscar-winning actor whose love life has been dissected as obsessively as his filmography.
Brad Pitt: Actor, Producer, and Perpetual Headline
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and raised in Springfield, Missouri. He dropped out of the University of Missouri just two weeks before graduation and drove to Los Angeles to chase acting, a gamble that paid off spectacularly. Early breakout roles in Thelma & Louise (1991) and A River Runs Through It (1992) established him as a leading man, and he never looked back.
His résumé is genuinely one of the most varied in modern Hollywood: Se7en, Fight Club, Snatch, the Ocean’s trilogy, Troy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Inglourious Basterds, Moneyball, 12 Years a Slave (producer), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, for which he finally won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2020. He is also a co-founder of production company Plan B Entertainment, responsible for serious prestige films far beyond his own starring vehicles.
Off-screen, Pitt’s personal life has generated a level of public fascination that rivals his professional output. His marriage to Jennifer Aniston (2000–2005), his subsequent relationship and marriage to Angelina Jolie, and their bitter, years-long divorce battle have kept him in tabloid circulation for three straight decades. The Jolie divorce, filed in 2016, remained legally unresolved for years and produced a stream of court filings, allegations, and counter-allegations that were widely reported in the press.
People search for Brad Pitt constantly, sometimes for his films, but more often for updates on his legal battles, his rumored new relationships, and what his six children have to say about him. He is, in short, a genuine cultural phenomenon who exists simultaneously as a serious artist and as celebrity mythology.