Why He's No. 26

He is a talented actor who has starred in Legends Of The Fall (1994), Fight Club (1999), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Babel (2006), the Ocean's trilogy, and Burn After Reading (2008).

Back Stage

Brad Pitt (full name William Bradley Pitt) was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His family moved to Springfield, Missouri, it was there that he spent his high school years at Kickapoo high school.  Brad Pitt's childhood was fairly normal, happy family, lots of friends, camping trips, but there was one thing about Brad Pitt that made him unique, he loved movies! Brad Pitt attended the university of Missouri, where he majored in journalism and advertising. Brad Pitt was a hard worker in university but " Got into enough trouble to keep things interesting, " as he puts it. Leaving college two credit hours short of graduation, Brad Pitt hopped in his car named " runaround Sue  " and was bound for California. Brad Pitt arrived in Los Angeles, and a new life had started for him. With whatever money he could salvage went to his community theatre acting lessons. Slowly Brad Pitt worked his way into television and soon after the film industry.



Brad Pitt's first feature film role was as a cowboy in the 1991 Thelma and Louise. Although this movie only provided the young star with 14 minutes of screen time Brad Pitt made such an impact that you could have guessed that in a few short years he would be one of Hollywood's top actors. In 1995 Brad met Gwyneth Paltrow, his co-actor in 'Seven'. On June 16th 1997, Brad Pitt's publicist announced that the relationship was over. Brad Pitt was involved in a long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. They became engaged in December 1996, but the couple split in June 1997. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded the relationship. Nude photographs of the couple, taken by paparazzi without permission, controversially appeared in magazines. Brad Pitt married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. Their separation was announced on January 7, 2005, and Aniston filed for a divorce on March 25 the same year. Brad Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie, while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The famous couple was quickly dubbed " Brangelina " by the media. Both Pitt and Jolie denied such relationship during his marriage to Aniston. Aniston, however, was not convinced and eventually filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized on October 2nd 2005. In March 2006, it was announced that Paramount had purchased the rights to The Sparrow for Pitt's production company, Plan B, and that Pitt would be playing the lead role of Sandoz.



In June 2006 it was announced that Paramount and Plan B will be working on a new zombie film called World War Z, based on the book of the same name by Max Brooks. Pitt is behind Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities such as in Darfur, along with George Clooney, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Jerry Weintraub. Speculation of a relationship between the two began to be confirmed with the first private paparazzi photos of Jolie and Pitt emerged April 9, 2005 (and were reportedly bought for $500,000). They showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer, the pair were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple " Brangelina ". Two months later, the highly-anticipated July 2005 issue of W magazine hit newsstands, featuring Pitt and Jolie posed as a married couple. In July 2005 he accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia, where Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl named Zahara, later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt the girl together. In December 2005 it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie's two children as his (as part of legal requirements), classified advertisements in the Los Angeles paper Daily Commerce announcing the name change request. On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request. The children's legal surnames were formally changed to "Jolie-Pitt ". During a charity trip to Haiti with Wyclef Jean, rumors began to circulate that Jolie was pregnant.



On January 11, 2006 Jolie confirmed to People magazine that she was pregnant with Pitt's child. On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia by the couple's Los Angeles obstetrician, assisted by local staff. Pitt confirmed that their newborn daughter would have a Namibian passport. Public interest in the child was immense. In an August 2006 survey, 41 percent of participating 18 to 24-year-old American adults correctly identified that the couple had named their baby Shiloh. Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to take these extremely valuable snapshots. People magazine paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million; the total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most expensive celebrity image of all time. Jolie and Pitt donated all the earnings to an undisclosed charity. On July 26, 2006 Madame Tussauds of New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh, it is the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.

Forcaste

Brad Pitt has come a long way from his small roles in Another World and Growing Pains, to become an A-list star (though he has never had the box office clout of heavyweights Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks). He has declined several Hollywood blockbusters, in lieu of smaller (let's admit it, more artsy) roles, which is one of the reasons he doesn't get top dollar like other male stars. He needs to star in Terminator IV: I Won't Be Back After This, or something to satisfy studio executives who have been less than pleased by his light box office pull. However, alongside Tom Cruise and Bill Clinton, he is one of the most photographed and famous men in the world. And no matter where he goes, he is instantly swarmed by fans.