Brad Pitt is a highly acclaimed American actor and film producer, recognized as one of the most influential celebrities globally. He has received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Pitt's films have generated over $6.9 billion worldwide, solidifying his position as a major figure in the entertainment industry.
In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was published, which was later loosely adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt in 2008.
In 1960, the original Rat Pack Ocean's Eleven film was released, which was later remade in 2001 starring Brad Pitt.
On December 18, 1963, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
In 1966, Brad Pitt's younger brother, Douglas Pitt, was born.
In 1969, Brad Pitt's younger sister, Julie (Pitt) Neal, was born.
In 1982, Brad Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising.
In 1983, Ron Hansen's novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was published. The novel was later adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt in 2007.
In May 1987, Brad Pitt made his television debut in a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.
In December 1987, Brad Pitt had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom Trial and Error and the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.
In 1989, Brad Pitt appeared in the comedy Happy Together and had a featured role in the horror film Cutting Class, which was his first film to reach theaters.
In 1990, Brad Pitt was cast as Billy Canton in the NBC television movie Too Young to Die?, playing a drug addict who takes advantage of a young runaway.
In 1991, Brad Pitt appeared in the film Across the Tracks, and he also featured in a Levi's jeans TV commercial using the song "20th Century Boy".
In 1991, Brad Pitt gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in Ridley Scott's road film, Thelma & Louise.
In 1991, after years of supporting roles, Brad Pitt attracted wider recognition in Thelma & Louise and starred in the film Johnny Suede.
In 1992, Brad Pitt starred in the live-action/animated fantasy film Cool World.
In 1992, Brad Pitt took on a leading role in the drama film A River Runs Through It.
In 1993, Brad Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis in the film Kalifornia, made a brief appearance in True Romance, and won a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.
In 1994, Brad Pitt began a much-publicized romance and engagement with his Seven co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated until 1997.
In 1994, Brad Pitt portrayed the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the horror film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel.
In 1994, Brad Pitt starred in the western film Legends of the Fall and the horror film Interview with the Vampire.
In 1994, following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Brad Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall, earning his first Golden Globe Award nomination.
In 1995, Brad Pitt starred in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, winning a Golden Globe and receiving an Academy Award nomination for the latter.
In 1995, Brad Pitt starred in the crime thriller Seven.
In 1995, Brad Pitt was Oscar-nominated for his role in the science fiction drama 12 Monkeys.
In 1995, Brad Pitt was named People's Sexiest Man Alive.
In 1995, Brad Pitt was named one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history by Empire and was also named People's Sexiest Man Alive.
In 1995, despite a mixed reception, Brad Pitt won two MTV Movie Awards for his performance in Interview with the Vampire.
In 1996, Brad Pitt appeared in the legal drama Sleepers, based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel.
In 1997, Brad Pitt ended his relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow after dating since 1994.
In 1997, Brad Pitt starred in The Devil's Own, playing an Irish Republican Army terrorist, a role for which he learned an Irish accent.
In 1997, The Dark Side of the Sun, filmed earlier and shelved due to the Croatian War of Independence, was finally released, marking Brad Pitt's first leading film role.
In 1998, Brad Pitt had the lead role in the fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black, portraying a personification of death.
In 1999, Brad Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in Fight Club, which is a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel. He took lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling to prepare for the role. Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival.
In 1999, Brad Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club.
On July 29, 2000, Brad Pitt married Jennifer Aniston in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu.
Despite an initial underwhelming box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000.
In 2000, Brad Pitt co-authored an architectural book on the Blacker House with the architects Thomas A. Heinz and Randell Makinson.
In 2000, Brad Pitt received the accolade of People's Sexiest Man Alive for the second time.
In 2000, Brad Pitt starred as an Irish Traveller boxer in Guy Ritchie's gangster film, Snatch. While the film received mixed reviews, Pitt's performance was widely praised.
On November 22, 2001, Brad Pitt made a guest appearance on the eighth season of Friends as a man with a grudge against Rachel Green. He was later nominated for an Emmy Award for this performance.
In December 2001, Brad Pitt starred as Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original. The film was a box office success.
In 2001, Brad Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.
In 2001, Brad Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh's heist film Ocean's Eleven.
In 2001, Brad Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican, which was a box office success. Also in 2001, he starred in the Cold War thriller Spy Game as Tom Bishop.
In February 2002, Brad Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV's reality series Jackass, participating in comedic stunts.
In 2003, Brad Pitt took on his first voice-acting roles, including the titular character in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Boomhauer's brother in King of the Hill.
In 2003, Michael Lewis wrote Moneyball, which was later adapted into a film starring Brad Pitt in 2011.
In October 2004, Brad Pitt visited the University of Missouri to encourage students to vote for John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Later in October 2004, he publicly supported public funding for embryonic stem-cell research and endorsed Proposition 71.
In 2004, Brad Pitt cemented his leading man status by starring in the historical epic Troy.
In 2004, Brad Pitt starred as Achilles in Troy and reprised his role as Rusty Ryan in Ocean's Twelve. He also produced Troy via Plan B Entertainment.
In January 2005, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston announced they had decided to separate.
In April 2005, one month after Aniston filed for divorce, paparazzi photographs emerged showing Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya, interpreted by the press as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie.
In July 2005, Brad Pitt accompanied Angelina Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, a girl named Zahara.
On October 2, 2005, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's divorce was finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court.
On December 3, 2005, Brad Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara, and Jolie's first adopted child, a boy named Maddox.
In 2005, Brad Pitt narrated the PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discussed current global health issues.
In 2005, Brad Pitt starred as John Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, alongside Angelina Jolie. The film was praised for the chemistry between the two stars.
In 2005, Brad Pitt starred in a Heineken commercial, directed by David Fincher, that aired during the Super Bowl.
In 2005, Brad Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie became a prominent global celebrity story.
In 2005, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was released.
On January 11, 2006, Angelina Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Brad Pitt's child, publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time.
On January 19, 2006, a California judge granted Angelina Jolie's request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt".
On May 27, 2006, Angelina Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in Swakopmund, Namibia. The first pictures of their daughter were sold to People and Hello! with proceeds donated to charities serving African children.
In September 2006, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world, initially donating $1 million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders.
In October 2006, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
In an October 2006 interview with Esquire, Brad Pitt said that he would marry Angelina Jolie when everyone in America is legally able to marry.
In 2006, Brad Pitt appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities, placing at number 20.
In 2006, Brad Pitt founded the Make It Right Foundation, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct 150 sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans's Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
In 2006, Brad Pitt starred in Babel and produced The Departed through Plan B Entertainment. Babel was screened at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, while The Departed won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2006, Brad Pitt starred in the acclaimed film Babel.
In 2006, a global industry survey by ACNielsen found Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to be the favorite celebrity endorsers for brands and products worldwide.
In early 2006, intense media hype surrounded the pregnancy of Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt, reaching what Reuters called "the point of insanity." The couple flew to Namibia for the birth of their daughter to avoid media attention.
On March 15, 2007, Angelina Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy, Pax, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In May 2007, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated $1 million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region.
In 2007, Brad Pitt appeared on the Time 100 list, a compilation of the 100 most influential people in the world, as selected annually by Time magazine.
In 2007, Brad Pitt starred in Ocean's Thirteen and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He won the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival for the latter.
In 2007, Brad Pitt starred in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
In 2007, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gave away $3.4 million to various causes.
On February 21, 2008, Brad Pitt adopted Pax in the United States.
In May 2008, at the Cannes Film Festival, Angelina Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins.
On July 12, 2008, Angelina Jolie gave birth to son Knox and daughter Vivienne in Nice, France. The rights for the first images of the twins were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million, with the proceeds donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
In September 2008, Brad Pitt donated $100,000 to the campaign against California's Proposition 8, an initiative to overturn the state Supreme Court decision that had legalized same-sex marriage.
In October 2008, the first six homes of the Make It Right Foundation were completed.
In 2008, Brad Pitt appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list of the 100 most powerful celebrities, placing at number 10.
In 2008, Brad Pitt made his final appearance on Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 list during that period, highlighting his continued influence.
In 2008, Brad Pitt received the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival for his role in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
In 2008, Brad Pitt starred in the black comedy Burn After Reading and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His performance in the latter earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, a fourth Golden Globe nomination, and a second Academy Award nomination.
In 2008, Brad Pitt was Oscar-nominated for his role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and he also starred in Burn After Reading.
In a February 2009 interview, Brad Pitt said that he and Jennifer Aniston "check in with each other", adding that they were both big parts of each other's lives, despite media reports of an acrimonious relationship.
In March 2009, Brad Pitt met with U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities.
In June 2009, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to a U.N. refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants.
In September 2009, Brad Pitt received an award in recognition of the Make It Right project from the U.S. Green Building Council.
In 2009, Brad Pitt starred as Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was a box office hit and received favorable reviews.
In 2009, Brad Pitt was included on the Time 100 list in the "Builders and Titans" category.
In January 2010, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
In 2010, Brad Pitt voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the animated feature Megamind.
In 2011, Brad Pitt produced and appeared in Terrence Malick's experimental drama The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also starred in Moneyball.
In 2011, Brad Pitt was Oscar-nominated for his role in the sports drama Moneyball and also starred in The Tree of Life.
In 2011, Brad Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award for Moneyball as a producer.
In March 2012, Brad Pitt was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Judge Vaughn Walker.
In April 2012, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced their engagement after seven years together.
In September 2012, Brad Pitt reaffirmed his support for Barack Obama, saying, "I am an Obama supporter and I'm backing his U.S. election campaign."
In 2012, Brad Pitt starred as mob hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, which is based on the novel Cogan's Trade.
In 2013, Brad Pitt starred in and produced World War Z. He also produced and played a small role in 12 Years a Slave. Additionally, he had a supporting role in The Counselor.
In 2013, as a producer, Brad Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave.
In a 2013 interview, Brad Pitt said that his inability to recognize people's faces had become so severe that he often wanted to stay home.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were legally married on August 14, 2014.
On August 23, 2014, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had their wedding in a private ceremony at the Château Miraval, France.
On October 17, 2014, Fury, a World War II film starring Brad Pitt, was released. The film was a commercial and critical success.
In 2013-2014 schedule, Plan B Entertainment had its first television series as their joint venture with ABC Studios, the sci-fi/fantasy drama Resurrection, was picked up by ABC.
On June 2, 2015, the minor planet 29132 Bradpitt was named in Brad Pitt's honor.
In 2015, Brad Pitt starred in The Big Short.
In 2015, Brad Pitt starred opposite Angelina Jolie in By the Sea, which was directed by Jolie. Pitt also starred in and produced The Big Short. By the Sea was their first movie together since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
In 2015, Brad Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award for The Big Short as a producer.
In September 2016, Brad Pitt got sober and began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
In September 2016, the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigated Brad Pitt for child abuse following an incident on a plane.
On September 19, 2016, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.
In 2016, Brad Pitt starred in Robert Zemeckis's romantic thriller Allied, playing an assassin who falls in love with a French spy.
In 2016, a sequel to World War Z was announced but ultimately shelved due to budget issues.
In 2017, Brad Pitt starred in the Netflix satirical war comedy War Machine. He also had a recurring role as a weatherman on The Jim Jefferies Show.
In 2017, the planned sequel to World War Z was briefly delayed before being confirmed to be directed by David Fincher and ultimately shelved.
In November 2018, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a custody agreement where Jolie had primary physical custody while Pitt had "custodial time" with their minor children.
As of January 2019, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was Brad Pitt's favorite film.
On April 12, 2019, the divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie became legal.
In December 2019, Brad Pitt wrote an article for Interview in which he talked with his Legends of the Fall and Meet Joe Black costar and fellow recovering alcoholic Anthony Hopkins about their experiences with addiction and recovery.
In 2019, Brad Pitt starred in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Ad Astra. He received several awards for his performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2019, Brad Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In October 2020, Brad Pitt narrated an advertisement for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
In 2020, Brad Pitt portrayed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday Night Live, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
In May 2021, Brad Pitt was granted joint custody of his children with Angelina Jolie, over four and a half years after proceedings began.
In 2021, Brad Pitt entered the recording business by creating Miraval Studios, a company with French record producer Damien Quintard, set in Pitt's Chateau Miraval in South of France.
On January 5, 2022, Brad Pitt signed on to star in and produce a racing film on Formula One titled F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski, for which he will earn $30 million.
In 2022, Angelina Jolie filed a countersuit against Brad Pitt during a legal battle over their formerly co-owned vineyard, alleging he had asked Jolie to sign a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting her from speaking outside of court about his abuse of her and their children.
In 2022, Brad Pitt began dating Ines de Ramon, a jewelry designer.
In 2022, Brad Pitt said that he had struggled for years to recognize people's faces due to prosopagnosia (face blindness).
In 2022, nine of Brad Pitt's sculptures were exhibited at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, alongside works by Nick Cave and Thomas Houseago.
In 2023, nine of Brad Pitt's sculptures continued to be exhibited at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, alongside works by Nick Cave and Thomas Houseago.
In September 2024, Brad Pitt's film Wolfs, a comedy-thriller written and directed by Jon Watts and co-starring George Clooney, was released.
As of 2025, Brad Pitt's films have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide, according to The Numbers.
As of 2025, Brad Pitt's films have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide, demonstrating his enduring success and appeal in the film industry.
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