Let’s see what our talented actor has gone through to achieve so many heights in filming industry
Brad Pitt’s name has long been appellative. Not only charismatic, but also handsome man are given this “nickname”. Pitt took over the baton of the world sex symbol from another handsome man – Alain Delon. On December 18, Brad celebrates his 58th birthday. He took up his acting career more than 30 years ago. During this time, he reached the pinnacle of his fame in Hollywood. Pitt’s personal life was also intense. Let’s recall some of the brightest events in his life and see how his appearance has changed.
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Oklahoma, USA. His parents are religious people and were strict to all three of their children. Pitt was not really interested in education, but after finishing school, he entered university and studied journalism with a focus on advertising. He even managed to work a little in this field, but not in the role that his education implied.
After moving to Hollywood (Bradley had long dreamt of becoming an actor) he worked as a barker in a small diner. The people to whom he handed out flyers on the street could not even imagine that a future superstar was hiding in the costume of a huge chicken. A small salary went entirely to pay for a small housing, acting courses and for food.
In 1987, his attempts to break through at the auditions, finally succeeded, and Brad got his first role. By that time, he had already got used to his long name received at birth (William Bradley Pitt), shortening it to a more impressive version. In the early years, the young actor appeared exclusively in episodic roles in TV series. Pitt got his first main role in 1988, in the movie Cutting Class. After this movie, his career was on a roll.
Only 3 years later, Pitt was named Hollywood’s new sex symbol. He acted in the popular movie Thelma & Louise with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Originally, it was planned that in the bed scene, Geena’s double should replace her. But when the actress found out, she was going to act with young and good-looking Pitt, she refused to be replaced. After the release of the film, Brad became a celebrity.
In the next two years, several films with his participation were released. For his role in Kalifornia (1993) Pitt got his first impressive pay – $500 thousand. In the film, he turns from a cute heart-breaker into a bearded psycho.
On the set, Brad met Juliette Lewis and they started dating. They were a beautiful young and crazy couple. However, their relationship didn’t last long.
The romance Interview With The Vampire brought the actor worldwide fame. In Neil Jordan’s film, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise played vampires from the XVIII century.
In 1995, after filming in the films Interview With The Vampire and Legends Of The Fall, the People magazine named him the most handsome actor of his time.
On the set of the thriller Seven Brad Pitt met Gwyneth Paltrow, who played his wife. They began a passionate affair that lasted for several years. This couple looked incredibly spectacular on the red carpets. It was rumored that Gwyneth took care of the appearance of her lover. And, apparently, her “control” brought results. At that period of time Brad looked the most attractive.
Fans were already waiting for their wedding, when in 1997, Brad and Gwyneth broke up peacefully.
In 1998, the drama Meet Joe Black was released, where Pitt played death in the guise of an attractive blond man. A year later, we saw Brad Pitt in the film Fight Club playing crazy Tyler Durden.
Pitt received $17,5 million for each film, while his colleagues were getting much less.
The new millennium was marked for Brad Pitt by changes in his personal life and an abundance of filming, when all projects with his participation became successful (Snatch, The Mexican, Ocean’s Eleven and others).
In 2000, Pitt married the start of the TV series Friends – Jennifer Aniston. Two years after their wedding, Jen and Brad founded their own production company. They released the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kick-Ass, The Departed and others.
However, this beautiful couple also parted. The actors divorced in autumn, 2005. People started gossiping, that Brad left his wife, because she didn’t want children. Later, Aniston sharply denied these rumors.
But the truth was not long to come: in January 2006, the actor announced that Angelina Jolie was expecting a child from him. Together they starred in the action comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith. All the previous months since it became known about the divorce from Jennifer Aniston, Pitt denied that he was having an affair with someone else.
Pitt and Jolie’s relationship lasted 10 years. By this time they had 3 children – Shiloh, Vivien and Knox. The actor also adopted three children, adopted by his wife – Zahara, Pax and Maddox.
The whole world adored them – he is a sex symbol, and she is the most beautiful actress in Hollywood. But the fairytale ended. Two years after their wedding, Jolie filed for divorce. Many years of litigation began, which have not ended until now.
During his marriage with Jolie, Pitt received his first Oscar. But not as an actor, but as the producer of 12 Years A Slave.
Brad Pitt is one of the few actors who does not chase eternal youth and beauty. He is well-groomed, stylish, classy, but looks exactly his age. This, however, doesn’t bother his fans at all. The actor and producer is constantly credited with affairs with young actresses, but none of them has been confirmed.
To this day journalists torture Pitt with questions about his ex-wives Jennifer and Angelina. Very often Brad “flees” from the press.
In 2019, Pitt finally got his Oscar as an actor, although he was nominated for it three times as an artist, and twice as a producer. Brad received the highest award in the world of cinematography for Quentin Tarantino’s film Once upon a Time in…Hollywood, in which he starred with Leonardo DiCaprio (he also waited for his statuette for many years). Pitt has been nominated for Golden Globe Awards and got the statuette once, for the best supporting actor in the film 12 Monkeys.
In 2021, Pitt appeared at the Oscar ceremony with long hair pulled back in a ponytail.
In the next two years, six films with his participation will premiere at once. The actor keeps his personal life a secret. However, until the court proceedings with Angelina are completed and the lost relationship with the older children is not established, Brad is unlikely to waste his energy on new affairs.
