William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He has received a
Golden Globe Award, a
Screen Actors Guild Award, and three
Academy Award
nominations in acting categories, and received two further Academy
Award nominations, winning one, for productions of his film production
company
Plan B Entertainment.
He has been described as one of the world's most attractive men, a
label for which he has received substantial media attention.
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Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road movie
Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with
A River Runs Through It (1992),
Interview with the Vampire (1994), and
Legends of the Fall (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller
Seven and the science fiction film
12 Monkeys (both 1995), the latter earning him a
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Pitt starred in the cult film
Fight Club (1999) and the major international hit
Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels,
Ocean's Twelve (2004) and
Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

His greatest commercial successes have been
Troy (2004),
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), and
World War Z (2013). Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and
Moneyball (2011). He produced
The Departed (2006) and
12 Years a Slave (2013), both of which won the
Academy Award for Best Picture, and
Moneyball, which garnered a Best Picture nomination.
Following a high-profile relationship with actress
Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress
Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress
Angelina Jolie in a
relationship that has attracted wide publicity.
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They are married and have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh,
Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has
become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States
and internationally.