William Bradley Pitt 

(born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He is the recipient of various
accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy
Award. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment
industry.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles
in big-budget productions came with the drama films A River Runs Through It (1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), and the
horror film Interview with the Vampire (1994). He gave critically acclaimed performances in David Fincher's crime
thriller Seven (1995) and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995). The latter earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best
Supporting Actor and his first Academy Award nomination.
Pitt found greater commercial success starring in Steven Soderbergh's heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001), and reprised his role
in its sequels. He cemented his leading man status starring in blockbusters such as the historical epic Troy (2004), the romantic
crime film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), the horror film World War Z (2013), and the action film Bullet Train (2022). Pitt also starred
in the critically acclaimed films Fight Club (1999), Babel (2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert
Ford (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), Inglorious Basterds (2009), The Tree of Life (2011), and The Big Short (2015). Pitt
received Academy Award nominations for his performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
and Moneyball (2011), and he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood (2019).
In 2001, Pitt co-founded the production company Plan B Entertainment.[3] He produced The Departed (2006), 12 Years a
Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, while others such as The Tree of
Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), and The Big Short (2015) were nominated for the award.
For many years, he was cited as the world's most attractive man by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of
wide publicity. He is divorced from actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. Pitt has six children with Jolie, three of whom
were adopted internationally.