Where was Brad Pitt raised?
Brad Pitt was born December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Son of Jane and William Pitt, he spent his childhood in Springfield, Missouri. Eldest of the siblings, he has a brother, Douglas and a sister, Julie. As a teenager, he first turned to a sports career, then to architecture, before devoting himself to cinema.
Revealed at the age of 28 in the film Thelma and Louise by Ridley Scott (1991), the actor then goes through the films at a frantic pace. In 1994, he confirmed his talent with Interview with a Vampire and gave the answer to Tom Cruise and the young Kirsten Dunst. He pursues a faultless career, he collaborates with prestigious directors; David Fincher (Fight Club), Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Eleven), Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds), or the Coen brothers (Burn after Reading). He appears in blockbusters like the Troie peplum (2004), or World War Z (2013).
He left an impression in the role of authoritarian father in The Tree of Life, by Terrence Malick, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2011. At the same time, he pursued a career as a wise producer, with his production company Plan B entertainment (The infiltrators, World War Z, Twelve years a slave…). In 2015, he toured Vue sur mer under Angelina Jolie's direction. In 2016, he starred in Robert Zemeckis' Allies and Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time.
On January 6, 2020, he won the award for best actor in a supporting role for his role in Once upon a time in… Hollywood, during the Golden Globes ceremony. On February 9, 2020, he also won the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for this role.
Amateur and great collector of contemporary art, Brad Pitt is also a committed man, very involved in many humanitarian missions in New Orleans. In August 2005, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the actor created the Make it Right foundation to help rebuild certain disadvantaged neighborhoods in Louisiana.
On the private side, Brad Pitt shares the life of actress Gwyneth Paltrow between 1994 and 1997. The glamorous couple got engaged in December 1996, but broke up a few months later. In 1998, through mutual friends, he met actress Jennifer Aniston. After several months of rumors, the two actors formalize their romance in February 1999 on the occasion of the actress's 30th birthday. On July 29, 2000, the couple got married. But in January 2005, the actors announced their separation. A few months later, in October 2005, the divorce judgment was pronounced.
The actor fell in love with Angelina Jolie immediately, on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith. For her, he adopts Maddox (born in August 2001) and Zahara (born in January 2005), children that the actress herself had adopted. The whole world calls them the Brangelina. The couple enlarged the tribe with the birth of their daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, on May 27, 2006, in Namibia and the adoption of a boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien (born in November 2003), in March 2007. July 12, 2008 , the actress gives birth to twins Knox and Vivienne, in Nice. Two years after their engagement, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married on their property in the Miraval estate in the south of France, on August 23, 2014. In September 2016, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce.
