Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt Biography

Born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri, the eldest of three children in a devoutly Southern Baptist family. His father, Bill Pitt, owned a trucking company and his mother, Jane Pitt, was a family counselor. Pitt originally aspired to be an advertising art director, studying journalism at the University of Missouri. However, the young college student had other quiet aspirations, the product of a childhood "love of movies," which finally seemed tangible his last semester at university when he realized, “I can leave.” On a whim, Pitt dropped out of college, packed up his Datsun, and headed West to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, just two credits shy of a college degree.

Pitt told his parents he intended to enroll in the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, but instead spent the next several months driving a limousine—chauffeuring strippers from one bachelor party to the next, delivering refrigerators, and trying to break into the L.A. acting scene. He joined an acting class and, shortly after, accompanied a classmate as her scene partner on an audition with an agent. In a twist of fate, the agent signed Pitt instead of his classmate. After weathering only seven months in Los Angeles, Pitt had secured an agent and regular acting work.

Pitt's first jobs came in television, appearing in episodes of Dallas, the daytime soap Another World, the sitcom Growing Pains, and in 1990's short-lived Fox Television series, Glory Days. In 1989, Pitt played Billy Canton, the drug-addicted pimp of a teenage runaway, played by Juliette Lewis, in the NBC made-for-television movie Too Young to Die. Pitt and Lewis (9 years his junior at age 16) started dating and eventually moved in together.

Pitt made his big screen debut in 1989's horror/slasher film Cutting Class with Donovan Leitch, and played a teen track star in Sandy Tung's Across the Tracks, but it was a well-timed bit part in a controversial Hollywood film that pushed him into the glare of instant stardom. Pitt's performance as a renegade, sugar-tongued hitchhiker who gets picked up by the two title characters in Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise (1991) grabbed universal attention despite only a few minutes worth of screen time. Pitt's combination of charming bad boy charisma and sexual playfulness (particularly in a fiery love scene with Geena Davis) secured him as a genuine sex symbol (and wore out the rewind button on many a VCR).

Pitt's next few films failed to boost his acting credibility and establish him as more than just a pretty face in Hollywood. He appeared in The Favor (1992) with Elizabeth McGovern, Tom CiCillo's directorial debut, Johnny Suede (1992), and the unconvincing, half-animated Cool World (1992).

However, later that year, the Hollywood sunshine set the golden boy alight once more in Robert Redford's 1992 film based on Norman McLean's autobiography, A River Runs Through It. Pitt played the main character's charismatic gambling, fly-fishing brother (looking remarkably like the young Robert Redford).
Redford later admitted that he did not choose Pitt on the strength of his audition, rather, because “[he] had an inner conflict that was very interesting to me.” Pitt delivered a sparkling performance, skillfully depicting the character's dangerous footing between overwhelming charm and reckless self-destructiveness.

Brad Pitt filmography: Film & television projects

Untitled Brad Pitt/Jesse James Project (2006) .... Jesse James
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)  .... John Smith
Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Rusty Ryan
Troy (2004) .... Achilles
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) .... Sinbad
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) .... Brad, Bachelor #1
Full Frontal (2002) .... Brad/Himself
Ocean's Eleven (2001) .... Rusty Ryan
Spy Game (2001) .... Tom Bishop
The Mexican (2001) .... Jerry Welbach
Snatch. (2000) .... Mickey O'Neil
Fight Club (1999) .... Tyler Durden
Meet Joe Black (1998) .... Joe Black
The Dark Side of the Sun (1997) .... Rick
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) .... Heinrich Harrer
The Devil's Own (1997) .... Rory Devaney/Francis Austin McGuire
Sleepers (1996) .... Michael Sullivan
Twelve Monkeys (1995) .... Jeffrey Goines
Se7en (1995) .... Detective David Mills
Legends of the Fall (1994) .... Tristan Ludlow
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) .... Louis de Pointe du Lac
The Favor (1994) .... Elliott Fowler
True Romance (1993) .... Floyd
Kalifornia (1993) .... Early Grayce
Contact (1992) .... Cox
A River Runs Through It (1992) .... Paul Maclean
Cool World (1992) .... Detective Frank Harris
Across the Tracks (1991) .... Joe Maloney
Two-Fisted Tales (1991) (TV) .... Billy (segment "King of the Road")
Johnny Suede (1991) .... Johnny Suede
Thelma & Louise (1991) .... J.D.
"Glory Days" (1990) TV Series .... Walker Lovejoy (1990)
Too Young to Die? (1990) (TV) .... Billy Canton
The Image (1990) (TV) .... Steve Black
Cutting Class (1989) .... Dwight Ingalls
Happy Together (1989/I) .... Brian
A Stoning in Fulham County (1988) (TV) .... Theodore 'Teddy' Johnson
"Another World" (1964) TV Series .... Chris (1987)
Less Than Zero (1987) (uncredited) .... Partygoer
No Man's Land (1987) (uncredited) .... Waiter

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