Brad Pitt
February 2nd 2012 Posted at Celebrities in the Tabloids
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William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. He has been described as one of the world’s most attractive men, a mark for which he has received substantial media attention.
Pitt started his acting career with television guest appearances, including a role on the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas in 1987. He later gained join marketing recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’s character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt’s initially leading HGH Shot in the arm roles in huge-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Myths of the Fall, which earned him his initially Golden Globe appointment. In 1995 he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science Atlanta bankruptcy attorney fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award appointment. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty Ryan in Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successeshave been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his following Academy Award appointment for his title role performance in the 2008 film The Scarce Case of Benjamin Button.
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 plaque attack in a relationship that has generated wide exposure. He and Jolie have six children—Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Since beginning slim ts his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly caught up in social issues both in the United States and globally. Pitt owns a production company named Plot B Entertainment, whose productions include the 2007 Academy Award winning Best Picture, The Departed.
Early work
While struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. He took on various right to bare legs jobs, spending some time as a give somebody a ride and dressing up as an El Pollo Loco chicken to pay for acting lessons.
Pitt’s onscreen career started in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Man’s Land and Less Than Zero. His television introduction came in November of the same year with a guest advent on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains. He appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, Shake Weight the boyfriend of Charlie Wade (played by Shalane McCall). Pitt described his character as “an idiot boyfriend who gets caught in the hay.” Speaking of his scenes with McCall, Pitt later said “It was kind of wild, since I’d never even met her before.” Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest advent on the Fox control drama 21 Jump Street.
In the same year, the Yugoslavian–U.S. co-production The Dark Side of the Sun (1988) gave Pitt his initially leading film role, as a childish American taken by his family to the Adriatic to find a remedy for a skin condition. But, the film was shelved on the rash of the Croatian War of Independence, and was unrestricted only in 1997. St Louis Speed Limits Pitt made two motion picture appearances in 1989: the initially in a supporting role in the comedy Pleased Together; the following a Max Burn featured role in the horror film Cutting Class, the initially of Pitt’s films to reach theaters. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddy’s Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and (for a following time) Growing Pains.
Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, a drug addict who takes advantage of a childish runaway (played by Juliette Lewis) in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Childish to Die?, the tale of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder. Ken Tucker, television reviewer for Entertainment Weekly wrote: “Pitt is a magnificent slimeball as her hoody boyfriend; looking and sounding like a malevolent Cougar Mellencamp, he’s really terrifying.” The same year, Pitt co-starred in six episodes of the small-lived Fox drama Glory Days, and took a supporting role in the HBO television movie The Image. His next advent came in the 1991 film Across the Tracks; Pitt described Joe Maloney, a high school sprinter with a criminal brother, played by Ricky Schroder.
After years of supporting roles in movies and frequent television guest appearances, broader public recognition came for Pitt with his supporting role in the 1991 road film Thelma & Louise. He played J.D., a small-time criminal who befriends Thelma (Geena Davis). His like scene with Davis has been cited as the moment that defined Pitt as a sex symbol.
After Thelma & Louise, Pitt starred in the 1991 film Johnny Suede, a low-budget picture in this area an aspiring rock star, and the 1992 film Cool World, although neither furthered his career in light of their poor reviews and box office performance. Pitt took the role of Paul Maclean in the 1992 biographical film A River Runs Through It, aimed at by Robert Redford. His portrayal of the character has been described as a career-building performance, proving that Pitt could be more than a “cowboy-hatted hunk”, although he admitted that he felt under pressure when building the film. Pitt added that he considered it one of his “weakest performances … It’s so eerie that it finished up being the one that I got the most attention for.” Pitt believed that he benefited from working with such a talented cast and crew, going on to compare working with Redford to playing tennis, saying “when you play with somebody better than you, your game gets better.”
In 1993, Pitt reunited with Juliette Lewis, co-star from Too Childish to Die?, for the road film Kalifornia. He played Early Grayce, a serial killer and the boyfriend of Lewis’s character in a performance Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described as “outstanding, all boyish charm and then a snort that exudes pure menace”. Pitt also garnered attention for a brief advent in the cult hit Right Romance as a stoner named Floyd, providing much looked-for comic relief to the action film. He capped the year by winning a ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.
Critical success
1994 marked a significant turning point in Pitt’s career. Starring as vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the feature film Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 novel of the same name, he was part of an ensemble cast that included Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas. Despite winning two MTV Movie Awards at the 1995 ceremony, his performance was poorly received. According to the Dallas Observer, “Brad Pitt … is a large part of the problem [in the film]. When directors play up his self-satisfied, hunkish, folksy side … he’s a joy to watch. But there’s nothing in this area him that suggests inner torment or even self-awareness, which makes him a dull Louis.”
Following the release of Interview with the Vampire, Pitt starred in Myths of the Fall (1994), a film set during the initially four decades of the twentieth century. Pitt described Tristan Ludlow, son of Colonel William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) a Cornish immigrant, and received his initially Golden Globe Award appointment, in the Best Actor category. Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas co-starred as Pitt’s brothers. Although the film’s greeting was mixed, many film critics complimented Pitt’s performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, “Pitt’s diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it’s a bring shame on the film’s superficiality gets in his way” while the Deseret News predicted that Myths of the Fall would solidify Pitt’s reputation as a lead actor.
In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the crime thriller Seven, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer (played by Kevin Spacey). Pitt called the film a fantastic movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons, expressing a desire to go on from “this ‘pretty boy’ thing and play someone with flaws”. His performance was critically well-received, with Variety saying that it was screen acting at its best, further remarking on Pitt’s ability to turn in a “determined, energetic, creditable job” as the detective. Seven earned $327 million at the international box office.
Following the success of Seven, Pitt took a supporting role as Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam’s 1995 science-fiction film 12 Monkeys. The movie received predominantly clear reviews, with Pitt praised in particular. Janet Maslin of the New York Times called Twelve Monkeys “fierce and disturbing” and remarked on Pitt’s “incredibly frenzied performance”, concluding that he “electrifies Jeffrey with a eerie magnetism that becomes vital later in the film.” He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film and received his initially Academy Award appointment for Best Supporting Actor.
The following year he had a role in the legal drama Sleepers (1996), based on the Lorenzo Carcaterra’s novel of the same name. The film received mixed reviews. In the 1997 movie The Devil’s Own Pitt starred, opposite Harrison Ford, as the Irish Republican Army terrorist Rory Devany, a role for which he was required to gather an Irish accent. Critical opinion was divided on his approximation of the accent; “Pitt finds the right tone of moral ambiguity, but at times his Irish brogue is too convincing – it’s hard to know what he’s saying”, wrote the San Francisco Chronicle while a contributor from The Charleston Gazette opined that it had favored Pitt’s accent over the movie. The Devil’s Own grossed $140 million worldwide, but was a critical failure. Later that year he led as Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean-Jacques Annaud film Seven Years in Tibet. Pitt trained for months for the role, which demanded significant mountain climbing and trekking practice, including by rock climbing in California and the European Alps with his co-star David Thewlis. The film received frequently negative reviews, and was generally considered a disappointment.
Pitt then had the lead role in 1998′s Meet Joe Black. He described a personification of death inhabiting the body of a childish man to gather what it is like to be human. The film received mixed reviews, and many were critical of Pitt’s performance. According to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, Pitt was unable to “to make an audience believe that he knows all the mysteries of death and eternity.”
From 1999 to 2003
In 1999, Pitt described Tyler Durden, an uncompromising and charismatic individual, in Fight Club, a film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, aimed at by David Fincher. Pitt prepared for the part with lessons in boxing, taekwondo, and grappling. To look the part, Pitt consented to the removal of pieces of his front teeth which were restored when filming finished. While promoting Fight Club, Pitt said that the purpose of the film was not necessarily to take one’s aggressions out on someone else but rather to “have an experience, take a punch more” and see how you come out on the other end. Fight Club premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival and, despite divided critical opinion on the film as a whole, Pitt’s performance was broadly praised. Paul Clinton of CNN noted the risky yet successful nature of the film while Variety remarked upon Pitt’s ability to be “cool, charismatic and more dynamically physical, perhaps than his breakthrough role in Thelma and Louise”. In spite of a worse-than-expected box office performance, Fight Club became a cult classic after its DVD release in 2000 torchwood.tv
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Following Fight Club, Pitt was cast as an Irish Gypsy boxer with a barely understandable accent in Guy Ritchie’s 2000 gangster film Run off with. Several reviewers were critical of Run off with, but most praised Pitt. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said Pitt was “ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can’t know him”, going on to say that, before Run off with, Pitt had been “shackled by roles that called for brooding introspection, but recently he has found his calling in black comic outrageousness and flashy extroversion;” while Amy Taubin of The Village Voice claimed that “Pitt gets maximum comic mileage out of a one-joke role”.
The following year Pitt starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romantic comedy The Mexican, a film that garnered a broad range of reviews but loved box office success. Pitt’s next role, in 2001′s $143 million-grossing Cold War thriller Spy Game, was as Tom Bishop, an operative of the CIA’s Special Activities Division, mentored by Robert Redford’s character. Salon.com loved the film, though noting that neither Pitt nor Redford provided “much of an emotional connection for the audience”. On November 22, 2001, Pitt made a guest advent in the eighth season of the television series Friends, playing a man with a grudge against Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston, to whom Pitt was married at the time. For this performance he was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. In December 2001, Pitt had the role of Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean’s Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack original. He joined an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, and Julia Roberts. Well-received by critics, Ocean’s Eleven was successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide.
Pitt appeared in two episodes of MTV’s reality series Jackass in February 2002, initially running through the streets of Los Angeles with several cast members in gorilla suits, and participating in his own staged abduction in another episode. In the same year, Pitt had a cameo role in George Clooney’s directorial introduction Confessions of a Perilous Mind. He took on his initially voice-acting roles in 2003, lending his voice to the titular character of the DreamWorks animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and playing Boomhauer’s brother, Patch, in an episode of the animated television series King of the Hill.