Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer, and one of Hollywood's most bankable movie stars. Born William Bradley Pitt on 18 December 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and raised in Springfield, Missouri, he rose to fame with a supporting role in Thelma & Louise (1991) before headlining films such as Legends of the Fall, Se7en, Fight Club, Troy and the Ocean's trilogy. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and a second Oscar as a producer of the Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. He was married to Jennifer Aniston and later to Angelina Jolie, with whom he has six children, and he co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.

One of Hollywood's biggest movie stars, Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer with a career spanning more than three decades. Born William Bradley Pitt on 18 December 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and raised in Springfield, Missouri, he moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s to pursue acting. His breakout came with a supporting turn in Thelma & Louise (1991), and he went on to headline films such as Legends of the Fall, Se7en, Fight Club and the Ocean's trilogy. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) and a second Oscar as a producer of 12 Years a Slave (2013), which won Best Picture. This page covers the Brad Pitt biography, his age, family, wife and relationships, movies, height and net worth.

Raised in Springfield, Missouri, in a Southern Baptist household, the future actor grew up with a strong Midwestern upbringing. His father, William Alvin Pitt, ran a trucking company, and his mother, Jane Etta, was a school counsellor. He has a younger brother, Doug, and a younger sister, Julie. He attended the University of Missouri, where he studied journalism and advertising, but left two weeks short of graduating to move to Los Angeles and try acting.

Questions about the Brad Pitt parents and Brad Pitt siblings are frequent. His father and mother raised the family in Missouri, and his brother Doug Pitt became a businessman and philanthropist, while his sister Julie has largely stayed out of public life. Where he is from traces back to Oklahoma by birth and Missouri by upbringing, and he has been based in Los Angeles for most of his career.

The Brad Pitt wife history and his relationships draw wide interest. He was married to actress Jennifer Aniston from 2000 to 2005. He then began a relationship with Angelina Jolie, his co-star in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); the couple, often called Brangelina, married in 2014 and separated in 2016, with their divorce finalised in later years. On the question of who is Brad Pitt married to now, he is not currently married. His high-profile relationships over the years have kept him a fixture of entertainment headlines.

Together with Angelina Jolie, the actor has six children — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne. Three were adopted and three are biological. Searches for the Brad Pitt daughter, his son Knox, or his kids all point to this family. He has spoken about wanting to keep his children out of the public spotlight as they grew up.

The Brad Pitt first movie credits date to the late 1980s in small film and television roles, but his breakout arrived with Thelma & Louise (1991), where his brief role as a charming drifter drew major attention. He quickly became a leading man in A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994).

A Brad Pitt movies list of his most acclaimed work — sometimes searched as the best Brad Pitt movies or the top Brad Pitt films — includes Se7en (1995), Fight Club (1999), Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Inglourious Basterds (2009), Moneyball (2011) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His Brad Pitt filmography also spans Troy (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Bullet Train (2022). Fans tracking Brad Pitt recent movies and his latest film continue to follow his newer releases such as F1 (2025).

Beyond acting, Brad Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment. Films he produced include The Departed, 12 Years a Slave — which won the Academy Award for Best Picture — and Moonlight. That producing work earned him a second Oscar and cemented his standing behind the camera as well as in front of it.

The Brad Pitt net worth is reported by third-party outlets at around 400 million US dollars, an estimate rather than an officially confirmed figure. His income comes mainly from acting fees, film producing through Plan B Entertainment, and business ventures including a French winery and a men's skincare line. What Brad Pitt's net worth is exactly has not been publicly disclosed, so any net worth of Brad Pitt figure quoted online should be treated as approximate.