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Brad Pitt
American actor (born )
For other uses, see Brad Pitt (disambiguation).
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, ) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
One of the most influential celebrities, Pitt appeared on Forbes' annual Celebrity list from to , and the Time list in
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (). Pitt emerged as a star taking on leading man roles in films such as the drama A River Runs Through It (), the western Legends of the Fall (), the horror film Interview with the Vampire (), and the crime thriller Seven ().
Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh's heist film Ocean's Eleven (), and reprised his role in its sequels. He cemented his leading man status starring in blockbusters such as the historical epic Troy (), the romantic crime film Mr.
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Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles in the science fiction drama 12 Monkeys (), the fantasy romance The Curious Case of Benjamin Button () and the sports drama Moneyball ().
He also starred in acclaimed films such as Fight Club (), Babel (), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (), Burn After Reading (), Inglourious Basterds (), The Tree of Life (), and The Big Short ().
In , Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.[3] As a producer he won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave () and was nominated for Moneyball () and The Big Short ().
Pitt was named People'sSexiest Man Alive in and
Early life
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, , in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor.[4] The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Douglas Pitt (b.
) and Julie (née Pitt) Neal (b. ).[5] Born into a conservative Christian household,[6][7] he was raised as Southern Baptist and later "oscillate[d] between agnosticism and atheism."[8] He later reconciled his belief in spirituality.[9] Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country," having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes."[10]
Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming, and tennis teams.[11] He participated in the school's Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.[12] Following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in , majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising.[13] As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down.
He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made.[14][15] Two weeks short of completing the coursework for a degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.[14] He has named Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, and Mickey Rourke as his early acting heroes.[16]
Career
Early work (–)
While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London.[12][17] His acting career began in , with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out (), No Man's Land () and Less than Zero ().[12][18] In May , he made his television debut in a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World.[19] In November of the same year, Pitt had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom Trial and Error[20][21] and the ABC sitcom Growing Pains.[22] He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December and February as Randy, the boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter Charlotte (played by Shalane McCall).[23] Later in , Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street.[24] In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S.
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Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of a young runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the NBC television movie Too Young to Die?, the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder.
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent John Cougar Mellencamp, he's really scary."[26] The same year, Pitt co-starred in six episodes of the short-lived Fox drama Glory Days and took a supporting role in the HBO television film The Image.[27] His next appearance came in the film Across the Tracks; Pitt portrayed Joe Maloney, a high school runner with a criminal brother, played by Rick Schroder.[28] The same year he featured in a Levi's jeans TV commercial based around the song "20th Century Boy" which played in the background.[29]
After years of supporting roles in film and frequent television guest appearances, Pitt attracted wider recognition in his supporting role in Ridley Scott's road film Thelma & Louise.[27] He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis).
His love scene with Davis has been cited as the event that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.[22][30] After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture about an aspiring rock star,[31] and the live-action/animated fantasy film Cool World,[22] although neither furthered his career, having poor reviews and box office performance.[32][33]
Pitt took on the role of Paul Maclean in the biographical film A River Runs Through It, directed by Robert Redford.[34] His portrayal of the character was described by People's Janet Mock as a career-making performance,[35] proving that Pitt could be more than a "cowboy-hatted hunk."[36] He has admitted to feeling under pressure when making the film[5] and thought it was one of his "weakest performances&#; It's so weird that it ended up being the one that I got the most attention for."[5] Pitt believed that he benefited from working with such a talented cast and crew.
He compared working with Redford to playing tennis with a superior player, saying "when you play with somebody better than you, your game gets better."[35][36] In , Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis for the road film Kalifornia. He played Early Grayce, a serial killer and the abusive husband of Lewis' character, in a performance described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as "outstanding, all boyish charm and then a snort that exudes pure menace."[37] Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing comic relief to the action film.[38] He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.[39]
Breakthrough (–)
In , Pitt portrayed the vampireLouis de Pointe du Lac in the horror film Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name.[40] He was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas.[40] Despite his winning two MTV Movie Awards at the ceremony,[41] his performance was poorly received.
According to the Dallas Observer, "Brad Pitt&#;[] is a large part of the problem [in the film]. When directors play up his cocky, hunkish, folksy side&#;[] he's a joy to watch. But there's nothing about him that suggests inner torment or even self-awareness, which makes him a boring Louis."[42]
Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Legends of the Fall (),[43] based on a novel by the same name by Jim Harrison, set in the American West during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
Portraying Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant,[44] Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category.[45]Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt's brothers.
Although the film's reception was mixed,[46] many film critics praised Pitt's performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it's a shame the film's superficiality gets in his way."[47] The Deseret News predicted that Legends of the Fall would solidify Pitt's reputation as a lead actor.[48]
In , Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer who preys on people he considers guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins.[49] Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.[50] He expressed his intent to move on from "this 'pretty boy' thing&#;[] and play someone with flaws."[51] His performance was critically well received, with Variety saying that it was screen acting at its best, further remarking on Pitt's ability to turn in a "determined, energetic, creditable job" as the detective.[52]Seven earned $&#;million at the international box office.[32] Following the success of Seven, Pitt played psychotic anarchist Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam's science fiction film 12 Monkeys.
The movie received predominantly positive reviews, with Pitt praised in particular. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Twelve Monkeys "fierce and disturbing" and remarked on Pitt's "startlingly frenzied performance", concluding that he "electrifies Jeffrey with a weird magnetism that becomes important later in the film."[53] He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film[45] and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[54]
The following year, he appeared in the legal drama Sleepers (), based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name.[55] The film received mixed reviews.[56] In the film The Devil's Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany,[57] a role for which he was required to learn an Irish accent.[58] Critical opinion was divided on his accent; "Pitt finds the right tone of moral ambiguity, but at times his Irish brogue is too convincing&#;– it's hard to understand what he's saying", wrote the San Francisco Chronicle.[59]The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt's accent over the movie.[60]The Devil's Own grossed $&#;million worldwide.[32]
Later that year, he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet.[61] Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis.[62] Pitt had the lead role in 's fantasy romance film Meet Joe Black.
He portrayed a personification of death inhabiting the body of a young man to learn what it is like to be human.[63] The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt's performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt was unable to "make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity."[64]Roger Ebert remarked, "Pitt is a fine actor, but this performance is a miscalculation."[65]
Rise to prominence (–)
In , Pitt portrayed Tyler Durden in Fight Club,[66][67] a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name, directed by David Fincher.[68] Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling.[69] To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming ended.[70] While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the film explored not taking one's aggressions out on someone else but to "have an experience, take a punch more and see how you come out on the other end."[71]Fight Club premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.[72] Despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole,[73][74] Pitt's performance was widely praised.
Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film,[75] while Variety remarked upon Pitt's ability to be "cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than [] his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise".[76] In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in [77]
Pitt was cast as an Irish Travellerboxer with a barely intelligible accent in Guy Ritchie's gangster film Snatch.[78] Several reviewers were critical of Snatch; however, most praised Pitt.[79] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Pitt was "ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can't understand him", going on to say that, before Snatch, Pitt had been "shackled by roles that called for brooding introspection, but recently he has found his calling in black comic outrageousness and flashy extroversion;"[80] while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that "Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role".[81]
The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedyThe Mexican,[82] a film that garnered a range of reviews[83] but enjoyed box office success.[32] Pitt's next role, in 's $&#;million-grossing Cold War thriller Spy Game,[32] was as Tom Bishop, an operative of the CIA's Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford's character.[84] Mark Holcomb of enjoyed the film, although he noted that neither Pitt nor Redford provided "much of an emotional connection for the audience".[85]
On November 22, , Pitt made a guest appearance in the eighth season of the television series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married at the time.[86] For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.[87] In December , Pitt played Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the Rat Pack original.
He joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, and Julia Roberts.[88] Well received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $&#;million worldwide.[32]
Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV's reality series Jackass in February , first running through the streets of Los Angeles with several cast members in gorilla suits,[89] and in a subsequent episode participating in his own staged abduction.[90] In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.[91] He took on his first voice-acting roles in , speaking as the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas[92] and playing Boomhauer's brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.[93]
Worldwide recognition (–)
Pitt had two major film roles in , starring as Achilles in Troy, and reprising his role, Rusty Ryan, in the sequel Ocean's Twelve.
He spent six months sword training before the filming of Troy, based on the Iliad.[94] An on-set injury to his Achilles tendon delayed production on the picture for several weeks.[95]Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post stated that Pitt excelled at such a demanding role.[96]Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures.[97]Ocean's Twelve earned $&#;million worldwide,[32] and Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described by CNN's Paul Clinton as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford."[98] In , Pitt starred as John Smith in the Doug Liman-directed action comedy Mr.
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& Mrs. Smith, in which a bored married couple discover that each is an assassin sent to kill the other. The feature received reasonable reviews but was generally lauded for the chemistry between Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who played his character's wife Jane Smith. The Star Tribune noted that "while the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry".[99]Mr.
& Mrs. Smith earned $&#;million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of []
For his next film, Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel ().[] Pitt's performance was critically well-received, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer said that he was credible and gave the film visibility.[] Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career.[] The film was screened at a special presentation at the Cannes Film Festival[] and was later featured at the Toronto International Film Festival.[]Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe.[45] That same year, Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment produced The Departed, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Pitt was credited on-screen as a producer; however, only Graham King was ruled eligible for the Oscar win.[]
Reprising his role as Rusty Ryan in a third picture, Pitt starred in 's Ocean's Thirteen.[] While less lucrative than the first two films, this sequel earned $&#;million at the international box office.[32] Pitt's next film role was as American outlaw Jesse James in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, adapted from Ron Hansen's novel of the same name.[] Directed by Andrew Dominik and produced by Pitt's company Plan B Entertainment, the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival,[] with Pitt playing a "scary and charismatic" role, according to Lewis Beale of Film Journal International,[] and earning Pitt the Volpi Cup award for Best Actor at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.[] He eventually collected the award one year later at the festival.[] As of January , it was his own favorite of his films.[]
Pitt's next appearance was in the black comedy Burn After Reading, his first collaboration with the Coen brothers.
The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy",[] noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest.[] He was later cast as Benjamin Button, the lead in David Fincher's film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a loosely adapted version of a short story by F.
Scott Fitzgerald. The story follows a man who is born an octogenarian and ages in reverse,[] with Pitt's "sensitive" performance making Benjamin Button a "timeless masterpiece", according to Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun.[] The performance earned Pitt his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination,[] as well as a fourth Golden Globe and second Academy Award nomination,[45] all in the category for Best Actor.
The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, and grossed $&#;million at the box office worldwide.[32]
Established actor (–present)
Pitt's next leading role came in with the Quentin Tarantino-directed war filmInglourious Basterds, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.[] Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France.[] The film was a box office hit, taking $&#;million worldwide,[32] and garnered generally favorable reviews.[] The film received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations and seven MTV Movie Award nominations, including Best Male Performance for Pitt.[][] He next voiced the superhero character Metro Man in the animated feature Megamind.[] Pitt produced and appeared in Terrence Malick's experimental drama The Tree of Life, co-starring Sean Penn, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.[] In a performance that attracted strong praise, he portrayed the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane in the drama Moneyball, which is based on the book of the same name written by Michael Lewis.[]Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Pitt.[]
His next role was as mob hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly, based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V.
Higgins.[] In , Pitt starred in World War Z, a thriller about a zombie apocalypse, based on Max Brooks's novel of the same name. Pitt also produced the film.[]World War Z grossed $&#;million at the box office worldwide,[32] becoming Pitt's highest grossing picture.[] Next in , he produced, and played a small role in, 12 Years a Slave, a historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.[] The film received critical acclaim[] and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Picture.[] Also in , Pitt had a supporting role in Ridley Scott's The Counselor.[] Plan B Entertainment landed its first television series on the – schedule, as their joint venture with ABC Studios, the sci-fi/fantasy drama Resurrection, was picked up by ABC.[]
Pitt starred in Fury, a World War II film directed and written by David Ayer, and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, and Jason Isaacs.[][][] The film was released on October 17, [] By the end of its run, Fury proved to be a commercial and critical success; it grossed more than $&#;million worldwide[32] and received highly positive reviews from critics.[] In , Pitt starred opposite his wife, Jolie, in her third directorial effort, By the Sea, a romantic drama about a marriage in crisis, based on her screenplay.
The film was their first collaboration since 's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Pitt's next role came with the biographical comedy-drama The Big Short, which he also produced and also co-starred alongside Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling. The film was a commercial and critical success.
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A sequel to World War Z was in announced in ,[] before the film was briefly delayed, then confirmed to be directed by David Fincher, and then ultimately shelved due to budget issues.[][] Pitt starred as Cliff Booth, a stunt double, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, reuniting with DiCaprio after The Departed, which Pitt produced and DiCaprio starred in.[] For his performance in the film, he received awards for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critics' Choice Movie Awards.[] This is the second Academy Award for Brad Pitt, his first that he received for acting.[] In , he also starred in James Gray's deep space epic Ad Astra, in which he played Roy McBride, a space engineer searching the galaxy for his father.[] Pitt's performance was praised as one of his career-best turn,[][] delivering a performance "that weaponizes passivity into a lethal form of self-defense".[] In , Pitt portrayed Dr.
Anthony Fauci in the cold open on Saturday Night Live, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.[][]
In , Pitt entered the recording business by creating a company with French record producer Damien Quintard. Set in Pitt's Chateau Miraval in South of France, Miraval Studios will re-open in after two decades of inactivity.
The previous version of the studio was one of the most iconic studios in the world, producing the records for Pink Floyd, the Cranberries, AC/DC, Sade and Muse, among others.[] In , Pitt starred in Bullet Train, directed by David Leitch,[] and reunited with his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Margot Robbie in Babylon, directed by Damien Chazelle.[] On January 5, , he signed on to star in and produce a racing film on Formula One titled F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski,[] for which he will earn $30 million.[] He reteamed with George Clooney in Wolfs, a comedy-thriller written and directed by Jon Watts, which was released in September []
Acting credits and accolades
See also: Brad Pitt filmography and List of awards and nominations received by Brad Pitt
Over his career Pitt has received numerous awards including two Academy Awards (as a producer and actor), two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Over his career he has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:
Philanthropy and activism
Pitt visited the University of Missouri campus in October to encourage students to vote in the U.S. presidential election,[] in which he supported John Kerry.[][] Later in October, he publicly supported the principle of public funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
"We have to make sure that we open up these avenues so that our best and our brightest can go find these cures that they believe they will find", he said.[] In support of this he endorsed Proposition 71, a California ballot initiative intended to provide state government funding for stem-cell research.[]
Pitt supports One Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world.[][] He narrated the PBS public television series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, which discusses current global health issues.[] The following year Pitt and Jolie flew to Haiti, where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean.[] In May , Pitt and Jolie donated $1&#;million to three organizations in Chad and Sudan dedicated to those affected by the crisis in the Darfur region.[] Along with Clooney, Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub, Pitt is one of the founders of Not On Our Watch, an organization that focuses global attention on stopping "mass atrocities".[]
Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture,[] even taking time away from film to study computer-aided design at the Los Angeles offices of renowned architect Frank Gehry.[] He narrated e2 design, a PBS television series focused on worldwide efforts to build environmentally friendly structures through sustainable architecture and design.[] In , he co-authored an architectural book on the Blacker House with the architects Thomas A.
Heinz and Randell Makinson.[] In , he founded the Make It Right Foundation, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct &#;sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans's Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.[][]
The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms donating their services.[][] Pitt and philanthropist Steve Bing have each committed $5&#;million in donations.[] The first six homes were completed in October ,[] and in September Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the U.S.
Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated.[][] Pitt met with U.S. PresidentBarack Obama and Speaker of the House of RepresentativesNancy Pelosi in March to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities.[]
In September , Pitt and Jolie established a charitable organization, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to aid humanitarian causes around the world.[] The foundation made initial donations of $1&#;million each to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders,[] followed by an October donation of $, to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an organization created in memory of the late American journalist Daniel Pearl.[] According to federal filings, Pitt and Jolie invested $&#;million into the foundation in ; it gave away $&#;million in [] and $&#;million in [] In June , the Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1&#;million to a U.N.
refugee agency to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants.[] In January , the foundation donated $1&#;million to Doctors Without Borders for emergency medical assistance to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.[][]
Pitt is a supporter of same-sex marriage.[] In an October interview with Esquire, Pitt said that he would marry Jolie when everyone in America is legally able to marry.[] In September , he donated $, to the campaign against California's ballot proposition Proposition 8, an initiative to overturn the state Supreme Court decision that had legalized same-sex marriage.[] In March , Pitt was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8&#;– a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage&#;– as Judge Vaughn Walker.[] In September , Pitt reaffirmed his support for Obama, saying, "I am an Obama supporter and I'm backing his U.S.
election campaign."[] In October , he narrated an advertisement for Joe Biden's presidential campaign.[]
Personal life
Relationships and marriages
From the late s to early s, Pitt was romantically involved with several of his co-stars, including Shalane McCall (Dallas),[]Robin Givens (Head of the Class),[]Jill Schoelen (Cutting Class),[]Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise),[] and Juliette Lewis (Too Young to Die? and Kalifornia).[35] McCall and Lewis were respectively 15 and 16 when Pitt started dating them.[][] Subsequently, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from to []
Pitt met actress Jennifer Aniston in ; they married in a private wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, [] In January , Pitt and Aniston announced they had decided to separate.
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During Pitt's divorce proceedings, his involvement with his Mr.
& Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie attracted media attention. Jolie and Pitt stated that they fell in love on the set[][] and that there was no infidelity.[] In April , one month after Aniston filed for divorce, a set of paparazzi photographs emerged showing Pitt, Jolie, and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya; the press interpreted the pictures as evidence of a relationship between Pitt and Jolie.
Throughout , the two were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina".[] On January 11, , Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child, thereby publicly acknowledging their relationship for the first time.[] Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement in April after seven years together.[] They were legally married on August 14, , and had their wedding in a private ceremony at the Château Miraval, France on August 23, [] On September 19, , Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.[] On April 12, , the divorce became legal.[][2] After Pitt sued Jolie for selling her share of a winery they owned to a third party, she filed a countersuit, in which she alleged that he physically and verbally abused her and their children during a plane flight in []
In , he began dating Ines de Ramon (b.
), a jewelry designer.[]
Children
In July , Pitt accompanied Jolie to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she adopted her second child, a girl named Zahara.[][] On December 3, , Pitt was in the process of becoming the adoptive father of Jolie's daughter, and Jolie's first adopted child, a boy named Maddox.[] On January 19, , a California judge granted Jolie's request to change the children's surnames from "Jolie" to "Jolie-Pitt".[] The adoptions were finalized soon after.[]
Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, Pitt confirmed that she would qualify for a Namibian passport.[] The couple sold the first pictures of their daughter through the distributor Getty Images; the North American rights were purchased by People for over $&#;million, while Hello! obtained the British rights for approximately $&#;million.
The proceeds from the sale were donated to charities serving African children.[]Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of the two-month-old; it marked the first time an infant had been honoured with a statue in the museum.[]
On March 15, , Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy, Pax, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.[] Pitt adopted the boy in the United States on February 21, [] At the Cannes Film Festival in May , Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins.[] She gave birth to son and daughter, Knox and Vivienne, on July 12, in Nice, France.[] The rights for the first images of the twins were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14&#;million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.[][] The couple donated the proceeds to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.[][]
Since Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt on September 19, , they have been embroiled in a custody battle over their children.
Jolie had full custody until May when Pitt was granted joint custody, over four and a half years after proceedings began.[] However, in July, Los Angeles superior court judge John W. Ouderkirk was removed from the case due to concerns over his impartiality as he did not sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt's lawyers.
This resulted in the custody arrangement reverting to a previous November agreement where Jolie has primary physical custody while Pitt has "custodial time" with their minor children.[][]
Abuse allegation
In September , the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services investigated Pitt for child abuse following an incident on a plane, where Pitt was accused by an anonymous person of being "verbally abusive" and "physical" towards one of his children.[] Pitt was not criminally charged for the incident by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, or by the FBI.[]
In , Jolie filed a countersuit against Pitt during a legal battle over their formerly co-owned vineyard.
Jolie's lawyers stated that during negotiations, Pitt had asked Jolie to sign "a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting her from speaking outside of court about his abuse of her and their children."[] Her complaint stated that he grabbed and shook her during the plane ride, strangled one of their children, and struck another in the face, among other allegations.[]