Brad Pitt BIOGRAPHY :
Full Name: William Bradley Pitt
Born Place : Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. Raised in Springfield, Missouri.
Family : Jennifer (wife), Jane (mom), Bill (dad), Doug (brother) and Julie (sister).
Married: Jennifer Aniston 29th July 2000
Hair: Blond ; Eyes: Blue

Education: Graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield 1982. Attended University Of Missouri at Columbia 1986.
Smokes: Yes. His favourite brands are Camel Wides and Marlboro. Started smoking in 6th grade.
Drinks: Coffee and beer.
Hobbies: Interior design, architecture and nature.
Pets: 5 dogs (Blanco, C.C. Rider, Purdy, Saudi and Todd Potter).
Car: Black GMC SUV. Previous a black Jeep Cherokee.

Favourite author: Cormac McCarthy
Favourite candy: Twizzlers
Favourite cereal: Frosted Flakes
Favourite drink: Mountain Dew
Favourite movies: Planet of the Apes and Saturday Night Fever
Favourite music : Jimi Hendrix, Gipsy Kings, Stone Temple Pilots and Bob Marley. The first album he bought was Elton John's 'Captain Fantastic'. He also likes Shirley Manson (Q Magazine March 1999). His first concert was the 'Dobbie brothers'
Favourite snacks: Pizza
Favourite sports: Bicycling, rock climbing and tennis.
Favourite TV-show: All in the Family
Hates: Sharks and spiders.

Brad Pitt's Address:
9150 Wilshire Blvd #350
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA

c/o Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA

Brad 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.

He 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, Brad 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.

Brad 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 him instead of his classmate. After weathering only seven months in Los Angeles, Brad Pitt had secured an agent and regular acting work.

His 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, Brad 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. Brad and Juliette (9 years his junior at age 16) started dating and eventually moved in together.

Brad 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. Brad 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. His 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.

His 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. Brad Pitt played the main character's charismatic gambling, fly-fishing brother (looking remarkably like the young Robert Redford). Robert Redford later admitted that he did not choose him on the strength of his audition, rather, because "[he] had an inner conflict that was very interesting to me." Brad Pitt delivered a sparkling performance, skillfully depicting the character's dangerous footing between overwhelming charm and reckless self-destructiveness.

In 1993, Brad Pitt re-teamed with three-year girlfriend Juliette Lewis in Dominic Sela's Kalifornia. Pitt played Early Grayce, a man who goes on a cross-country killing spree with his girlfriend. The film was deemed self-indulgently violent and nihilistic by many reviewers and did not do well in the box office. Brad and Juliette broke up soon after filming, creating a publicity disaster.

Brad Pitt proceeded to lighten his repertoire with a comedic performance as "Floyd," a burnt-out hippie in Tony Scott's True Romance, but his next major role came in the adaptation of Ann Rice's Interview with the Vampire, alongside Tom Cruise. Ann Rice initially expressed outrage at the casting choices, finding the two boyish, all-American film stars too rough for the subtle, slightly homoerotic overtones of the tale. "It's like casting Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer," she reportedly complained. However, after seeing the final film, she retracted her initial statements and filmed a short spot for the video version, endorsing the film. Caryn James of The New York Times reported, "the power of the film depends on Mr. Pitt's rich and deeply affecting performance. Low-key and serene, he makes Louis convincing as a bereaved father, lover, even son."

His next few efforts secured his place as a Hollywood staple; still, many critics found his roles lacking in dimension. In 1994's Legends of the Fall, an epic family melodrama, Brad Pitt played Tristan--a stereotypical romantic hero with long, golden locks and a penchant for alternately selfish and self-sacrificing gestures.

However, Brad Pitt abruptly took a gritty turn as a detective on the trail of a serial killer in David Fincher's disturbing and gory thriller, Seven. During filming, he met and began dating his then relatively unknown costar, Gwyneth Paltrow. Both claimed it was "love at first sight." The two stayed together for two and a half years and were one of Hollywood's most admired and celebrated couples. Then, in 1997, after a seven-month engagement, the couple split for unknown reasons.

In 1995, Brad Pitt starred as a mental patient in Terry Gilliam's psychological thriller Twelve Monkeys and won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor. He followed with another dark thriller, Sleepers (1996), and Alan J. Pakula's Devil's Own with Harrison Ford, before heading to Argentina to film Seven Years in Tibet, an ambitious, seventy million dollar project, which met disappointingly mixed reviews. And also dit The dark side of the Sun.

His next film, the three-hour plus Meet Joe Black, co-starring Anthony Hopkins, in which he played a very comely version of Death. After landing the romantic lead in the epic drama Legends of the Fall, People magazine saw fit to pronounce Brad Pitt "The Sexiest Man Alive." Though he set out to prove all his crass oglers wrong or at least earn other qualifiers like "good actor" his appeal proved potent enough to cross some major boundaries. Singer Melissa Etheridge provided this Brad Pitt testimonial: "One night a few of us, shall we say, lesbians, were in the hot tub watching the guys play basketball in the pool. We were staring at Brad and we all agreed he could change a woman's mind."

In 1999, after a brief hiatus from the Hollywood hot list, Brad Pitt re-teamed with Seven director, David Fincher, to make Fight Club. The apocalyptic film, also starring Edward Norton, presents an unglamorous Pitt in a disturbing role as leader and recruiter of Fight Club a bloody diversion for young professional males.

A two-time winner of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" title (1995 and 2000), Brad Pitt began dating Jennifer Aniston, star of the TV sitcom Friends, in 1998. Pitt and Aniston were married July 29, 2000, in Malibu, California. The couple lives in Los Angeles.

Next up for Bad Pitt was the British crime-caper Snatch (2001), costarring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Guy Ritchie. Also in 2001, Pitt stars with Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican. And he will finish the year 2001 with two movies Ocean Eleven costarring George Clooney, again Julia Roberts, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon and Spy Game where he teams up again with Robert Redford.

Filmography :
Fountain, The (2003)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)
E! Rank: 25 Toughest Stars (2002) (TV)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Full Frontal (2002)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Spy Game (2001)
Mexican, The (2001)
Snatch. (2000)
Fight Club (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Dark Side of the Sun, The (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Devil's Own, The (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Favor, The (1994)
True Romance (1993)
Kalifornia (1993)
Contact (1992)
River Runs Through It, A (1992)
Cool World (1992)
Across the Tracks (1991)
Johnny Suede (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Cutting Class (1989)