Brad Pitt biography

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Date of Birth
18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA

Birth Name
William Bradley Pitt

Height
5′ 11″ (1.80 m)

Brad Pitt was born in 1963 in Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri. His mother’s name is Jane Etta Hillhouse. His father, William Pitt, worked in management at a trucking firm in Springfield. He has a younger brother, Douglas Pitt and a younger sister Julie Neal Pitt. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for “el Pollo Loco.”

Salary

Inglourious Basterds (2009) $9,000,000
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) $1,000,000
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) $20,000,000
Troy (2004) $17,500,000
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) $30,000,000
Spy Game (2001) $17,500,000
The Mexican (2001) $10,000,000
Fight Club (1999) $17,500,000
Meet Joe Black (1998) $17,500,000
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) $10,000,000
The Devil’s Own (1997) $10,000,000
Sleepers (1996) $10,000,000
Se7en (1995) $4,000,000
Kalifornia (1993) $500,000
Thelma & Louise (1991) $6,000
Cutting Class (1989) $12,000