ACTOR · BORN 1963
Brad Pitt
- Born
- 18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
- Known for
- Troy (2004), Fight Club (1999), Se7en (1995), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
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Brad Pitt (born 18 December 1963) is an actor best known for Troy, Fight Club and Se7en.
Brad Pitt over the years
60 Interesting Facts About Brad Pitt
Interesting Facts (8)
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A girl went to Pitt's Hollywood-area home shortly after midnight January 7, 1999 and crawled in through an open window, dressed herself in his clothes and stayed for 10 hours before the alarm went off. Athena Rolando, 19, was ordered not to contact the actor and to stay 100 yards away from him for three years (1999).
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Production Story (19)
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He was scheduled to make Waking Up in Reno (2002) with Juliette Lewis but the date kept being moved which meant he was available when director Guy Ritchie asked him to do Diamonds which was retitled Snatch (2000) on release. By the time Waking Up was ready, he and Jennifer were unavailable so their roles went to Billy Bob Thornton and Natasha Richardson.
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Brad Pitt met with the director to discuss the role of Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018), but could not commit due to scheduling conflicts, so the role was given to Josh Brolin. Although he was cast as Vanisher instead.
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His first starring role in a feature film was in The Dark Side of the Sun (1988), shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988. As editing neared completion, civil war broke out in the region and much of the footage was lost. In 1996, after a five-year search, all of the lost footage was found and returned to producer Andjelo Arandjelovic, who is working on getting a distribution deal. Pitt was paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks. He played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic Sea to search for a cure for a rare skin disease.
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Behind the Scenes (4)
Characters & Cast (2)
Easter Eggs & References (2)
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Made a cameo appearance with Matt Damon for free in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) as a favor to Ocean's Eleven (2001) co-star and close friend George Clooney - the film was Clooney's directorial debut.
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Career & Awards (7)
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He has produced or executive produced nine films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Departed (2006), The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015), Moonlight (2016), Vice (2018) and F1: The Movie (2025). The Departed, 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight all won in the category but Pitt was only awarded the Oscar for producing 12 Years a Slave.
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Life & Family (18)
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Pitt kept working with producer Harvey Weinstein even after knowing that two of his partners had been sexually harassed by him. Pitt dated Gwyneth Paltrow (from 1994 to 1997), who accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the 1990s while she was dating Pitt, who knew about it since Paltrow told him when it happened, according to her interview on the Howard Stern Show on May 23, 2018. Peter Biskind, the author of the 2004 book "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film" (which depicts Weinstein as a brutish, violent man who nevertheless managed to charm all the right people in Hollywood), told Vanity Fair in October 2017 that he learned of the incident while reporting his 2001 Vanity Fair cover on Brad Pitt, but wasn't able to mention it in his story because Pitt had gone off-the-record. "He made me turn the tape recorder off ... but he did say he liked Harvey, despite the advances he had made on Gwyneth Paltrow," Biskind said. Pitt was also married to Angelina Jolie until 2016, with whom he had 6 children, who also accused Weinstein of sexually harassing her in the beginning of her career. In 2009, Pitt starred in Inglourious Basterds (2009), which was produced by Weinstein and distributed by The Weinstein Company, and a few years later he approached Weinstein and asked him to produce the movie Killing Them Softly (2012). Jolie said in an interview for The Guardian on September 4, 2021 that she fought with Pitt over that, but he still wanted Weinstein to produce the movie anyway, and Jolie said that it hurt her that Pitt was happy to work with Weinstein despite knowing he had assaulted her. Jolie never worked with Weinstein after he harassed her and avoided attending promotional events for Pitt's 'Killing Them Softly'. After his separation from Jolie, Pitt hired Weinstein's former attorney and PR fixer strategist, Matthew Hiltzik, who helped kill a New York Times' 2004 exposé on Weinstein. Pitt later bought the movie rights to the 2019 book "She Said" by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the New York Times investigative reporters who exposed Weinstein's history of abuse. The book was turned into a movie, She Said (2022), which was produced by Pitt.
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On the invitation of Virgin CEO Richard Branson, he visited over 100 orphans affected by HIV at a facility run by The Salvation Army in South Africa as well as personally meeting Nelson Mandela and discussing Mandela's 46664 campaign (named for his prison ID number) to call attention to South Africa's devastating AIDS epidemic. After South Africa, he then flew to Ethiopia on behalf of DATA, a third-world lobby group co-founded by U2's Bono.
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A girl went to Pitt's Hollywood-area home shortly after midnight January 7, 1999 and crawled in through an open window, dressed herself in his clothes and stayed for 10 hours before the alarm went off. Athena Rolando, 19, was ordered not to contact the actor and to stay 100 yards away from him for three years (1999).
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