Name Brad Pitt

Birth name William Bradley Pitt

Date of birth 18 December 1963

Star sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA

Height 5ft 11in

Eye colour Blue

Marriages Jennifer Aniston, 29 July 2000 (divorced 2 October 2005)

Children Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie-Pitt, born 5 August 2001 (adopted by Brad January 2006); Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, born 8 January 2005 (adopted by Brad January 2006); Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, born 29 November 2003 (adopted March 2007); Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, born 27 May 2006; twins Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, born 12 July 2008

Biography

Regularly dubbed ‘Sexiest Man Alive’, actor, film producer and social activist Brad Pitt is one half of Hollywood’s golden couple with partner Angelina Jolie.

Born into a strict Baptist family, Brad grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He moved to California in the mid-1980s in search of stardom, but his road to the acting A-list was littered with odd jobs – including dressing up as a chicken to advertise a restaurant chain.

He scooped a plum guest-starring role on popular soap Dallas in 1987 and it wasn’t long before film bigwigs cottoned on to his growing heart-throb status, casting him in hits such as Thelma & Louise and A River Runs Through It.

Following grittier roles in Kalifornia and Se7en and relationships with respective co-stars Juliette Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad was Oscar-nominated for sci-fi thriller Twelve Monkeys and landed a reported $17.5 million deal to star in Meet Joe Black.

In 1998 he admitted he was dating Friends star Jennifer Aniston and the pair tied the knot two years later. But while Brad was raising pulses in 2003 film Troy, rumours of a split circulated and the couple separated in 2005 – reportedly fuelled by Brad’s off-screen chemistry with Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith.

Following his divorce in October 2005 Brad began dating Angelina. In December of that year they announced they were a couple and Brad became the legal father of Angelina’s adopted children, Maddox, Zahara and Pax, soon after the pair welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel, in 2006.

On 12 July 2008, Angelina gave birth to twins Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne
Marcheline Jolie-Pitt in France.

Quotes

‘I don't see my marriage as any kind of failure. It was an extraordinary time.’ (ABC News, 8 June 2005)

(On public opinion regarding his relationship with Angelina Jolie)
‘I don't give a s*** about that. People have been saying crap about me for 15 years.’ (New York Daily News, 5 September 2007)

(During his divorce)
‘All my bitches are mad at me right now.’ (GQ, May 2005)

‘We get away with things that other people can’t. And you start to believe the lie that you are special, that you’re better than other people.’ (Vanity Fair, November 2001)

(On being followed by the press)
‘The feelings would be the closest thing I could understand to rape. It’s just a creepy, creepy feeling to think you have this freedom and this privacy and then find out you’re being observed or followed.’ (The Dallas Morning News, 20 December 1998)