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Birth name William Bradley Pitt Date of birth (location) 18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA Height 6'

Brad Pitt was born in Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri. His mother's name is Jane. His father, Bill, worked in management at a trucking firm in Springfield. In high school Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for "el Pollo Loco".

This handsome young actor emerged as one of the most celebrated screen sex symbols of 1990s Hollywood. Pitt started out in TV guest spots and recurring roles on the soap operas "Another World" and "Dallas," which tended to capitalize on his blond, wiry good looks.

He co-starred on "Glory Days" (Fox, 1990), a short-lived drama about post-high school angst. Pitt entered features via the well-traveled low road, appearing in supporting roles in such standard teen fodder films and family-oriented sports dramas.

Pitt gained relatively instant stardom as the hitchhiking hunk-part charmer, part thief-who seduces Geena Davis in the female buddy movie, Thelma & Louise (1991). He achieved leading man status in his next film sporting a formidable pompadour as the fictitious aspiring teen idol Johnny Suede, and maintained it as a soft-hearted yet hard-boiled vet turned cartoon cop in Cool World (both 1992), Ralph Bakshi's uneven blend of live-action and animation.

Pitt gained some critical esteem playing the troubled younger brother who casts a mean fishing line in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It (also 1992), but fared less well as a bearded psycho killer in Kalifornia (1993). He provided a delightful character turn as a stoner roommate in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted True Romance (also 1993).

Pitt played his first high-profile lead in a Hollywood blockbuster as Louis, the lachrymose narrator of Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). His depressed vampire seemed all the more anemic paired with a lively Tom Cruise.

Pitt's star qualities were displayed in Legends of the Fall (1995) as the wild middle brother of a colorful western clan. In a change of pace from glamour roles, Pitt played a scruffy, arrogant policeman tracking a serial killer with Morgan Freeman in Seven and had a supporting role as a twitching mental patient/animal rights activist in Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (both 1995).

In 1991 Brad Pitt was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.

After making Legends of the Fall in 1994 he was given title "Sexiest Man Alive" from People Magazine.

In 1995 was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#23) and voted "Best Actor" by viewers of MTV's "The Big Picture". Also he was listed in "People Weekly"s "Most Intriguing People" list (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996 issue).

In 1996 Brad Pitt was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

In October 1997 he was ranked #32 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list and chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

And in 2000 Brad Pitt was given title "Sexiest Man Alive" from People Magazine.

In 2004 he is on the top of the People magazine's list of the 50 most beautiful people.

The sources are Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) and StarLink