Brad Pitt

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Brad Pitt (18 December 1963 - )

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to high school counselor Jane Etta Hillhouse and truck company owner William Alvin Pitt. Raised a conservative Southern Baptist, he attended Kickapoo High School, then majored in journalism at the University of Missouri but did not graduate, choosing to try to be an actor.

One biography, NNDB's, lists his girlfriends as having been Shalane McCall (1987); Jill Schoelen (1989); Robin Givens (1989); Juliette Lewis (1989 - 1993); Thandie Newton (1994); Gwyneth Paltrow (19941997); Sonita Henry (1989); April Florio (2003); and Angelina Jolie (dating since 2005, one daughter).

He married Jennifer Anistone 29 July 2000 and they divorced 2 October 2005).

Pitt's children are Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (a Cambodian orphan adopted by Jolie in 2002 and by Pitt in 2006); Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (an Ethiopian orphan adopted by Jolie 2005 and by Pitt 2006); Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (born 27 May 2006 with Jolie); Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Vietnamese orphan adopted 2007 with Jolie); and twins Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, with Jolie).

Dubbed one of the world's most attractive men, Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and has won one Golden Globe Award out of four nominations. Well-read in the humanities, "He is a model humanities humanist with the emphasis upon model," according to one Manhattan wag.

In a May 2009 article in Germany's Bild, Pitt was asked if he believes in the Almighty and responded, smiling, "No, no, no!" The interviewer, clearly well-versed in pneumatics, then posed the thesis: "Is your soul spiritual?" Brad came back with an equally nuanced, well-formulated antithesis: "No, no, no! I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it." In the interview, Pitt verified wife Angelina Jolie's assertion that the couple "have a 3-meter-wide bed" so they can cuddle up with all eight of their kids. "But even that isn't big enough," he adds. The interview was widely quoted in international journals.

Pitt, on Real Time With Bill Maher (14 August 2009), said he had abandoned religion and could not enter politics because of the fact that he supports gay marriage and the legalizing of pot.

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