BRAD PITT (John Smith) recently starred in Troy alongside Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom. The film is based on The Iliad, Greek poet Homer’s epic account of the Trojan War. Also in 2004, Pitt starred with George Clooney and Julia Roberts, along with an all-star ensemble cast, in Ocean’s Twelve, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s box office hit, Ocean’s Eleven.
He next stars in the drama Babel, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Pitt’s role as the seductive hitchhiker in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise (1991) first brought him national attention. He then starred as a psychopathic serial killer in Kalifornia, the charismatic but doomed Paul MacLean in Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It, and as the bloodsucking Louis in Neil Jordan’s Interview with a Vampire.
Pitt has been nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for his work as Tristan, the passionate, untamable brother in Legends of the Fall and for his costarring role in Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys, winning the Golden Globe for the latter.
Pitt had starring roles in Spy Game, The Mexican, Snatch, Full Frontal and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and he lent his voice to an animated film, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Pitt’s film credits also include Johnny Suede (which won the 1992 Golden Leopard Award for Best Picture at the Locarno Film Festival), Cool World, True Romance, Sleepers, The Devil’s Own, Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black and Fight Club.
Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. Right before graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to study advertising and graphic design, but instead he began to pursue an acting career, studying with Roy London. Soon thereafter he secured roles on television projects including the Fox series "Glory Days," HBO’s "The Image" and the critically acclaimed film "Too Young to Die."
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