Interesting Facts About Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt, a 60-year-old Hollywood stardom and film producer throughout his career has had the best times for his global audiences. Apart from his starstudded personality, he is a man of enchanting intricacy and puzzling episodes. This blog is on the lesser-known facts that you are likely not aware of this marvelous man. 

Unfamiliar Facts about Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt’s Early Life

• On December 18, 1963, Pitt was born In Shawnee, Oklahoma.
• His parents were William Alvin, a truck company manager, and Jane Etta Pitt, a school counselor.
• Doug Pitt who owns the technology company “ServiceWorld Computer” and Julie Pitt Neal, water ambassador for “WorldServe International” were his siblings.
• His nickname in school was Brad the Pitt-Bull.
• Two weeks short of completing his journalism degree at the University of Missouri, Pitt left his university and moved to Los Angeles to attend acting school.
• Before his acting career, Pitt was supporting himself by driving strippers in limos and moving refrigerators, and dressing as a giant chicken in El Pollo Loco.

Brad Pitt Movies List

1. Thelma & Louise (1991)
2. A River Runs Through It (1992)
3. The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
4. Seven (1995)
5. 12 Monkeys (1995)
6. Fight Club (1999)
7. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
8. Troy (2004)
9. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
10. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
11. The Tree of Life
12. Moneyball (2011)
13. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
14. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Brad Pitt’s Acting Career

• Pitt began his acting career in the year 1987.
• His early movies ‘No Way Out’ (1987), ‘No Man’s Land’ (1987), and ‘Less than Zero’ (1987) have only uncredited roles.
• His lead role as J.D. in Thelma & Louise was his big break. Despite having less than ten minutes of screen time, Pitt nailed his performance as the southern conman in the film.
• In 1997, Pitt’s role as Heinrich Harrer in the movie, “Seven Years in Tibet” sparked controversy and led the Chinese government to impose a ban on Pitt, prohibiting him from entering the country for 17 years.
• Brad earned $6,000 for the film Thelma and Louise. He also earned a base salary of $4 million for asking the hard-hitting “What’s in the box?” question in Se7en, $10 million for Sleepers.
• In the film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) Pitt started earning $20 million or more per movie.
• The seven most definite movies of Bradd Pitt are Fight Club, Se7en, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Thelma & Louise, Ocean’s Eleven, Moneyball, and The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford.

Brad Pitt Awards and Nominations

• Brad received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.
• In 1994, the movie, The Vampire Chronicles earned him the MTV Movie Awards for Most Desirable Male and Best Actor in a Movie.
• In 1995, the film 12 Monkeys won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and his first Academy Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
• His 2008, fantasy romantic drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button earned him several awards and nominations including his first Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance.
• His 2011 biographical sports drama Moneyball also earned him his Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.
• In 2013, Pitt produced and performed in the biographical period drama 12 Years a Slave, which won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
• In 2019, Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the Quentin Tarantino’s comedy-drama film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
• Pitt received his first Oscar nomination under the category ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for the film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ in 2020.

Brad Pitt’s Relationship

• Pitt counts several Hollywood superstars as his exes, including former wives Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston, former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow, and ex-girlfriends including Juliette Lewis, Christina Applegate, and more.
• Pitt married Jennifer Aniston in 2000 in a private wedding ceremony. The couple announced their separation in the year 2006.
• From 2004 Brad Pitt and Angelina Julie were in a romantic relationship and finally got married in 2014. This couple got divorced in 2019.
• Since 2022, Pitt has been dating Ines de Ramon who is the Vice President at Anita Ko Jewelry
• Shiloh Nouvel and twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt are the biological kids of Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Brad Pitt’s Personal Life

• As of the year 2024, Brad Pitt’s net worth is $400 million
• In 2022, Brad Pitt announced in an interview that he had suffered from Prosopagnosia, or Face Blindness for several years.

Brad Pitt’s Contribution to Society

• Pitt makes substantial donations to charities. In 2011, he donated $100,000 to the Human Rights Campaign, and In 2006 alone his donations to charities exceeded $4.4 million.
• In the year 2020, Pitt donated USD 1 million to an anti-racism charity after the African-American man George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US.

Latest News about Brad Pitt

• In March 2023, Pitt revealed his favorite movie lists to Far Out Magazine. The movies are Saturday Night Fever, Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Dr Strangelove.
• From the year January 2023, Pitt has been working on the project “Wolf”, which is set to release in September 2024.

In Feb 2024, at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Brad Pitt honors his friend and actor Bradley Cooper for his work starring as Leonard Bernstein in the biopic Maestro.