Brad Pitt

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Brad Pitt (2019)

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963 in Shawnee , Oklahoma ) is an American actor and film producer and two-time Oscar winner . He is also the co-founder and sole owner of the film production company Plan B Entertainment .

life and career

Early years and career start

Brad Pitt, who has English , Irish , Scottish , Swedish , Dutch and German ancestry, grew up with his two younger siblings Doug and Julie in Springfield, Missouri . His father, William Alvin Pitt, was a trucking company manager, while his mother, Jane Etta Pitt (nee Hillhouse), was a school counselor. Both belong to the Protestant denomination and are strict Baptists .

Pitt sang in the church choir as a child and youth and was brought up very religiously. After finishing school at Kickapoo High School he began in 1982 to study journalism and advertising at the University of Missouri , where he a member of the fraternity Sigma Chi was.

In 1985 he dropped out two weeks before graduation, even though he was only missing two courses. He moved to Los Angeles to become an actor. Through his part-time job as a chauffeur for strippers, Pitt came into contact with Roy London, at that time one of the most renowned acting teachers in Los Angeles, who enabled him to enter the film industry. He initially kept himself afloat with smaller jobs, for example with a commercial for Levi's jeans.

Pitt made his film debut in 1987 in Hunk ; however, his role in the comedy was so insignificant that his name was not featured in the credits . His roles as a waiter in the thriller No Man's Land - Tatort 911 and party-goers in the literary film Unter Null were also not mentioned in the film credits. Pitt first saw a wider audience in the television series Dallas , when he played the supporting role of Randy in four episodes (1987/88). In 1988 Pitt appeared in a guest role alongside Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street - Tatort Classroom and had guest appearances on the US sitcom Our Loud Home in 1987 and 1989 .

Pitt played his first leading role in 1988 in the romance film Dark Side of the Sun , a US-Yugoslav co-production that was shot in Montenegro and only released in 1997, when Pitt was already world famous. He played supporting roles in the television film Gebot des Schweigens (1988) and in the comedy Happy Together (1989), followed by a leading role in the slasher film Death Party II (1989).

Breakthrough and international acting career

Pitt caught the attention of the movie industry in 1991 when he played Geena Davis' young lover in the film Thelma & Louise . At the side of Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne , he took on the role of Detective Frank Harris in Cool World in 1992 , a combination of real and cartoon films . He was then hired by Robert Redford for his film A River Runs From the Middle (1992), and he played an unscrupulous serial killer in the 1993 thriller California . In the film True Romance (1993), the first collaboration with Quentin Tarantino , who had written the script for the film, he played the minor supporting role of Floyd.

Pitt finally achieved his international breakthrough as an actor alongside Tom Cruise in the film adaptation of the novel Interview with a Vampire (1994), at the latest with the drama Legends of Passion (1994) he became a teen idol. He soon tried to escape this image by impersonating a policeman in an extremely stressful case in controversial films such as Sieben (1995) and a mentally ill person in 12 Monkeys (1995). He received a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar nomination for the role of Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys .

In 1996 he played in Sleepers alongside Robert DeNiro , Dustin Hoffman , Kevin Bacon and Minnie Driver and received a fee in the tens of millions for the first time. He played an IRA terrorist alongside Harrison Ford in Confidant Feind (1997) and played the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in Jean-Jaques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet (1997) . The People's Republic of China banned him for life because of his involvement in the film.

In 1998, Pitt played Death in Human Form at the side of Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani in Rendezvous with Joe Black . In Fight Club (1999) he embodies the rebellious, rebellious colleague Edward Norton . In Guy Ritchie's comedy Snatch - Pigs and Diamonds (2000), Pitt played a supporting role with a difficult-to-understand accent and received a nomination for the Satellite Award . In 2001 he starred alongside Julia Roberts in The Mexican and starred alongside Robert Redford in the thriller Spy Game - The Final Countdown . He received an Emmy nomination for his guest appearance on the sitcom Friends , in which his then wife Jennifer Aniston played one of the lead roles . In 2002, Pitt also had two guest appearances on the series Jackass , in which he ran through the streets in a gorilla costume and took part in a kidnapping sketch.

In Steven Soderbergh's successful remake of Frankie and his cronies under the title Ocean's Eleven , he starred alongside George Clooney , Matt Damon , Andy García and Julia Roberts in the role of Robert "Rusty" Ryan, which he also appeared in the sequel Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007) took over. With his role as Achilles in Troy (2004) and the action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the side of Angelina Jolie , he celebrated further commercial success.

Another Golden Globe nomination earned him his role in Alejandro González Iñárritus several times for the Oscar-nominated drama Babel (2006). For the title role of Jesse James in Andrew Dominik's western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Pitt was awarded the Coppa Volpi , the actor's award at the 64th Venice Film Festival .

In the following year he received another Golden Globe and Oscar nomination, this time for best actor, for the renewed collaboration with David Fincher on the literary film The Strange Case of Benjamin Button (2008) alongside Cate Blanchett . In 2009 he worked alongside Christoph Waltz in Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds .

2011 appeared with The Tree of Life and The Art of Winning - Moneyball two films with his participation. For the latter, he was once again nominated for an Oscar for best actor.

At the 2020 Academy Awards , he won the Academy Award for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood .

Activity as a film producer

In 2002 Brad Pitt founded the film production company Plan B Entertainment with Brad Gray and his then-wife Jennifer Aniston . Pitt has been the sole owner of the company since 2006. With Plan B Entertainment, Pitt realized the films Departed - Unter Feinden (2006), Ein brave Weg (2007) with his partner Angelina Jolie in the lead role, Eat Pray Love (2010), The Tree of Life (2011) and Kick- Ace and kick-ace 2 .

The action film World War Z (2013), which he also produced , achieved gross revenues of over 540 million US dollars, making it Pitt's most financially successful production to date.

Pitt celebrated great success with critics with The Art of Winning - Moneyball (2011) and 12 Years a Slave . Both films received an Oscar nomination for best film and 12 Years a Slave was named best drama and best film at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards and the 2014 Academy Awards . The film also won other Academy Awards in the categories of Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Private life

Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

From 1990 to 1993 Brad Pitt was in a relationship with Juliette Lewis , whom he met while filming the television film To Die Far Too Young (1991) and with whom he also stood in front of the camera for California . While working on the thriller Seven , Pitt fell in love with his film partner Gwyneth Paltrow , with whom he was in a relationship from 1995 to 1997 and was briefly engaged. In 1998, Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston became a couple. They were married on July 29, 2000. The couple separated in January 2005 and divorced on October 2, 2005.

Pitt had been dating his then film partner Angelina Jolie since filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith . The couple are often referred to as "Brangelina" in the tabloids. After becoming engaged in 2012, the couple married in France on August 23, 2014. Pitt and Jolie have six children together: In December 2005, Pitt applied for adoption for Jolie's adopted children Maddox (from Cambodia ) and Zahara (from Ethiopia ). In May 2006, the couple's first biological daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, was born in Namibia . In March 2007, Jolie adopted the boy Phan Quang Sang (* 2003) from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City - initially alone for reasons of Vietnamese adoption law . Pitt later also adopted the boy, whom the couple renamed Pax Thien. On July 12, 2008, Jolie gave birth to twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline in Nice. All children have the surname Jolie-Pitt.

In September 2016, his wife Angelina Jolie filed for divorce.

Others

Pitt is very interested in architecture . During the construction of his house, he met members of Graft , whom he then commissioned to design his work studio and an eco hotel. In 2000 he published a book about the Blacker House in Pasadena together with the American architect Thomas A. Heinz and Randell Makinson . Through his Make It Right foundation , he commissioned well-known architecture firms to design semi-detached houses for reconstruction after the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans . He placed particular emphasis on sustainability , climate neutrality and affordability.

For her wedding to Angelina Jolie , he gave her the Ernest Hemingway typewriter, valued at $ 250,000.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian , Pitt is one of the five most influential people in Hollywood. The first four places go to James Cameron , Steven Spielberg , Leonardo DiCaprio and John Lasseter . His ex-wife Angelina Jolie is ranked 18th.

Pitt was a vegan at times . In addition, today he describes himself 80% as an agnostic and 20% as an atheist .

In a survey in 2019, he named Robert De Niro as his favorite actor .

He was voted Sexiest Man Alive by US People magazine in 1995 and 2000 .

Filmography

actor

Feature films

Pitt at the 2011 premiere of his film The Tree of Life at the Cannes International Film Festival

TV Shows

  • 1987: Another World: Bay City
  • 1987–1988: Dallas (episodes 11x13–11x14, 11x16 and 11x20)
  • 1987–1989: Our noisy home ( Growing Pains , episodes 3x09 and 4x14)
  • 1988: 21 Jump Street - crime scene classroom (episode 2x20)
  • 1989: Great class (Head of the Class)
  • 1989: Freddy's Nightmares (Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street - The Series)
  • 1989: The best years ( thirtysomething , episode 3x02)
  • 1990: Glory Days
  • 1992: Tales from the Crypt ( Tales from the Crypt , Episode 4x09)
  • 2001: Friends (episode 8x09)
  • 2002: Jackass (episodes 3x08–3x09)
  • 2003: Freedom: A History of Us
  • 2003: King of the Hill (speaking role in episode 8x01)
  • 2017-2018: The Jim Jefferies Show (7 episodes)

film producer

Executive Producer

Awards

Brad Pitt has been one of the most successful actors for many years and has received over 50 awards and over 100 nominations in his career. In 1996, Pitt was honored with the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 12 Monkeys . In the same year he received his first Oscar nomination. For some years now, Brad Pitt has been working increasingly as a producer and has received various awards in this role. As a co-producer of the drama 12 Years a Slave , Pitt won the Oscar for the first time in 2014. Brad Pitt was also co-producer of Departed - Unter Feinden , which also received the 2007 Oscar for best film. For this award, however, the Academy only accepted Graham King as nominees, so Brad Gray and Pitt were not honored. The following list shows the most famous nominations and awards that Pitt has achieved so far in his career.

Oscar

Pitt at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival

Golden Globe Award

British Academy Film Award

Emmy

Venice International Film Festival

Saturn Award

Voice actor

Pitt has been dubbed by Tobias Meister since 1995 . An exception was the film Troy , in which it was spoken by Martin Keßler , as the director Wolfgang Peterson was not satisfied with Master's voice. Keßler spoke to Pitt in the 1994 film Legends of Passion .

In early films he was voiced by Bernd Vollbrecht , Benno Fürmann , Timmo Niesner , Axel Malzacher , Bernd Schramm , David Nathan , Michael Deffert , Christian Stark , Tobias Lelle and Frank Schröder , among others .

literature

Web links

Commons : Brad Pitt  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Statement by Brad Pitt during his Inside-the-Actors-Studio interview on February 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Tell Brad, how about religion? Retrieved November 16, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Brad Pitt Filmography, Biography. In: foxnews.com. May 11, 2006, archived from the original on June 15, 2018 ; accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Brad Pitt Salary imdb.com, accessed January 21, 2014 (English)
  5. ↑ Brad Pitt's biography in the New York Times
  6. ↑ World War Z - Total Lifetime Grosses Worldwide Box Office Mojo, accessed January 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ sueddeutsche.de Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh and now Pax Thien
  8. ↑ Angelina Jolie: The twins are here. In: Spiegel Online . July 13, 2008, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ promilounge.de Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: They 're getting divorced!
  10. ^ Architect Brad Pitt , kino.de, June 4, 2003, accessed December 11, 2011
  11. ↑ Home design: You must know them ( memento from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), stern.de from October 8, 2005, accessed on May 1, 2019
  12. ↑ Brad Pitt builds Ökohotel spiegel.de with Berlin architects from June 4, 2008, accessed on December 11, 2011
  13. ↑ Heinz, Thomas A .; Makinson, Randell L .; Pitt, Brad: Greene & Greene: the Blacker House . 1st ed. Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City 2000, ISBN 978-0-87905-949-1 .
  14. ^ "Make It Right House" in New Orleans ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) detail.de, accessed on December 11, 2011.
  15. ↑ Make it right! First houses in New Orleans completed baunetz.de, January 5, 2009, accessed on December 11, 2011.
  16. ↑ Brad Pitt: Building Instructions for a Better World , The European , November 25, 2009, accessed December 11, 2011
  17. ↑ https://www.freenet.de/unterhaltung/promis/pictureshow/das-sind-die-seltsamsten-geschenke-die-stars-je-bekommen-haben_6581672_4729180_3557850_9.html
  18. ^ Film Power 100: the full list
  19. ↑ ibtimes.com: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt disagree over "red meat" ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  20. ↑ IUS star Brad Pitt attended the documenta - Dinner in Kassel
  21. ↑ Brad Pitt: 'I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic'
  22. ↑ https://www.t-online.de/tv/film-und-fernsehen/id_86274340/neuer-tarantino-film-dicaprio-und-pitt-scherzen-ueber-kollegen.html
  23. ^ Brad Pitt Awards In: IMDB.com. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  24. ↑ Brad Pitt Misses Out on Oscars Producer Prize ( January 31, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ) In: CelebritySpider.com. Accessed May 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pitt, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitt, William Bradley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawnee , Oklahoma , United States