Trivia

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Childhood – Early Stage Trivia

Brad Pitt’s birth name is William Bradley Pitt.

Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma to strict, Southern Baptist parents of mainly English and Irish descent. He was raised in Springfield, Missouri.

He has a brother Doug, born in 1966 and a sister Julie, born in 1969.

He sang in the church choir.

Brad Pitt graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Mo (1982). Other Alumni include Adrienne Wilkinson and Jay Kenneth Johnson.

In high school he was involved in sports and was a member of the golf, tennis, and swim teams.

In high school he was also involved in debating, student government, and school musicals.

He also belonged to the Forensics Club and the Key Club in High School, a club which does community service, raises money for charity, etc.

He was voted best dressed at Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Mo.

His high school nickname was Brad the “Pitt-bull.”

Brad has smoked since the 6th grade.

He posed for a campus calendar in college.

Was a journalism major in college with an advertising focus.

He attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Pitt dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and was two credits shy of graduating with a journalism degree before trying his luck in Hollywood.

Afterwards Brad studied acting with the late Roy London.

His first job was dancing in a chicken suit to draw in customers at an El Pollo Loco restaurant on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.

Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself as a chauffeur by driving limos, by working as a furniture mover moving refrigerators, and as a costumed mascot dressing as a giant chicken while working for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco.

Brad once used to work as a driver for strip group ‘Women of the Pole’.

In the late 1980s, Pitt started landing acting gigs on primetime series such as Dallas, Thirty something, 21 Jump Street, Freddy’s Nightmares, Another World, Growing Pains, and Head of the Class.

In 1988, he finally landed his first starring role in The Dark Side of the Sun.

Career Trivia

Pitt‘s first starring role in a feature film was in The Dark Side of the Sun (1997). He played a young American taken by his family to the Adriatic Sea to search for a cure for a rare skin disease. The film was shot in pre-war Yugoslavia during the summer of 1988.

As editing neared completion, civil war tore apart the region and much of the footage was lost. In 1996, after a five-year search, all of the lost footage was found and returned to producer Andjelo Arandjelovic, who is currently working on getting a distribution deal for the film. Pitt was paid $1,523 per week for seven weeks.

Pitt auditioned for the role of J.D. in the cult classic 1988 film Heathers (1989) and although he showed talent, casting directors thought he was too sweet for the role, and cast Christian Slater instead. He would later go on to a very similar role in the horror film Cutting Class (1989).

For Cutting Class Pitt was paid $12,000 (1989).

Pitt was the third choice for the role of J.D. in Thelma & Louise (1991). William Baldwin, the first choice, left to star in Backdraft (1991).

Pitt admits the sex scenes with Geena Davis in his big film debut Thelma & Louise remind him of one of his most embarrassing and uplifting moments (February 4, 2003).

He was paid $6,000 for Thelma & Louise (1991).

Pitt had to learn to fly-cast for his role in A River Runs Through It (1992). He practiced on top of buildings in Hollywood. During these practices he frequently hooked himself in the back of his head.

A short while after completing A River Runs Through It (1992), he flew to Amsterdam where he briefly lived for three months by himself in a small basement apartment before returning to the USA to film Kalifornia (1993).

For the film Kalifornia he was paid $500,000 (1993).

Pitt was briefly considered by Albert Pyun for the lead in Max Havoc, Curse of the Dragon, but was ultimately turned down.

At the end of the film Legends of the Fall (1994), the narrator says Tristan (Brad Pitt) died in 1963, the year Brad Pitt was born.

The role of Tommy Williams was intended for him in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

He was considered for the role in Crimson Tide (1995) that eventually went to Denzel Washington.

Pitt turned down a role as an astronaut in Apollo 13 (1995) to accept his Oscar-nominated role in Twelve Monkeys (1995) and to accept a role in Se7en (1995).

In the movie Se7en new Line executives originally balked at the ending of the film, but Pitt refused to make the film if the ending were changed.

In Se7en he broke his arm while filming the scene where Mills chases John Doe in the rain. He fell and his arm went through a car windscreen and requiring surgery. This accident was worked into the script of Se7en (1995).

Pitt was paid $4,000,000 for Se7en (1995).

For Sleepers he was paid $10,000,000 (1996).

The film Seven Years in Tibet was released in 1997. This film, which chronicled China’s invasion of Tibet, was hailed by Tibetan nationalists and resulted in Brad Pitt, along with his co-star David Thewlis.

He was banned from entering China because of his role in the controversial movie Seven Years in Tibet (1997).

He was paid $10,000,000 for Seven Years In Tibet (1997).

Pitt wanted to leave the production of The Devil‘s Own (1997), but was threatened by a lawsuit. In the February 2, 1997, Pitt called the film a disaster in issue of Newsweek, and said that it was the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking - if you can even call it that - that I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t believe it. Rumors of fighting on the set (especially over which star would be the focus of the film) plagued the production.

The original script was discarded and there were at least seven subsequent rewrites. Pitt said the final version was a mess. The script that I had loved was gone, he said. I guess people just had different visions and you can’t argue with that. But then I wanted out and the studio head said, „All right, we’ll let you out, but it’ll be $63 million for starters.“

Pitt was paid $10,000,000 for The Devil‘s Own (1997).

He was paid $17,500,000 for Meet Joe Black (1998).

Pitt and Edward Norton found out during rehearsals for Fight Club (1999) that they both hated the new Volkswagen Beetle with a passion. In the film they are seen banging a Volkswagen Beetle with baseball bats.

Pitt chipped his tooth during the making of Fight Club (1999) and decided not to get it fixed so as to add to the character. He didn’t have it capped untill after the film finished because it added authenticity.

He showed his parents the “Chemical Burn” scene to convince them not to watch Fight Club (1999).

In Spy Game when asked by Nathan where he learned to shoot like he could, Tom (Brad Pitt) says he learned it in Boy Scouts. In Fight Club, when asked where he learned about how to build a bomb, he also said in Boy Scouts.

Pitt was paid $17,500,000 for Fight Club (1999).

He was considered for the lead in The Matrix (1999) but lost the starring role in to Keanu Reeves.

Pitt was considered for two roles which went to Johnny Depp: Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Both were directed by Tim Burton.

He was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), and approached director Guy Ritchie to ask for a role in his next film, Snatch. When Ritchie found Pitt couldn’t master a London accent Ritchie gave him the role of Mickey the One Punch Pikey, an Irish fighter, in Snatch (2000).

Pitt became concerned when Guy Ritchie told him that he would be playing a boxer in Snatch (2000), because he had just finished shooting Fight Club and did not want to play the same type of role again. Because Pitt wanted to work with Ritchie so badly he took the role anyway.

Without being asked to, he made an appearance on MTV’s Jackass (2000) where he did stunts with the cast, dressed in an ape outfit. In one episode, Johnny Knoxville and a few other guys drive a van to a film set where Pitt is shooting a movie and grab him. They throw him into the back of the van and drive off with him gorrilla-style. Pitt was not aware that this stunt would take place, nor was anyone else on the set. He eventually dons a monkey suit and joins the guys in their wild antics for the remainder of the episode.

Pitt was paid $10,000,000 for The Mexican (2001).

His character in Spy Game (2001) is named Tom Bishop. In Sneakers (1992), Robert Redford plays a character named Martin Bishop.

He was paid $17,500,000 for Spy Game (2001).

In Ocean‘s Eleven his character, Rusty Ryan, eats or drinks in all but four scenes. This came about when director Steven Soderbergh was looking for a funny trait for Pitt’s character. He asked Brad for an idea when Brad happened to be eating dinner. Pitt, who had not eaten anything that day and was starving, said, with a mouthful of food, „How about he eats all the time?“

The scene in Ocean‘s Eleven where Brad Pitt teaches Joshua Jackson and Topher Grace to play poker is spoofed in the Taco Bell commercials Rules of The Table and King of Clubs. The commercials were meant to be so accurate that the very same card table used in the film was tracked down and rented for them.

For Ocean‘s Eleven he was paid $30,000,000 ($10m salary + backend participations) (2001).

Pitt got into a real life car chase after a crash in LA on August the 7th, 2002, as he chased after a woman driver who sped off from the scene.

In September, 2002, hundreds of crew members on filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s sci-fi thriller film The Fountain took Pitt to task for bailing on the production just two months before its scheduled start date in Australia, apparently scuttling the project.

He urged movie The Fountain bosses to move the shoot to nearby Cairns, because he thought the Gold Coast is a shlocky tourist area.

Pitt has upset residents of an Australian tourist resort, by refusing to shoot his new movie there. The movie star is moving Down Under for six months while he makes new film The Fountain there, with Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp.

Pitt has given his shaggy beard a rather strange name, the Bin Laden. The Hollywood actor says his straggly whiskers make him look just like the al-Qa’ida terror leader. Brad grew the beard for a part in sci-fi thriller The Fountain, but because filming has been repeatedly cancelled the beard has grown and grown.

In September 2002, Pitt walked off the Australian set of The Fountain because he couldn’t bear to be away from his wife Jennifer Aniston a minute longer; he was desperately unhappy on the set after a series of supposed creative disputes with director Darren Aronofsky (September 25, 2002).

When acting in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) he made a cameo appearance with Matt Damon for free as a favor to Ocean’s Eleven (2001) co-star and close friend George Clooney. The film was Clooney’s directorial debut.

Pitt owns the rights to the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002). He wanted it to be remade with him and Tom Cruise in the leading roles.

A sequel to hit film Se7en is to be made with original star Morgan Freeman but without hunk Brad Pitt. Se7en was the grisly serial killer movie wowed audiences in the 1995 who watched as Pitt’s character Detective David Mills was left berefoot after his wife and unborn baby became the last victims of Kevin Spacey’s psycho. Instead the action will center on Freeman’s character William Somerset as he comes up against another serial killer (January 3, 2003).

Brad was taught to ride a horse by Albertan John Scott, a rancher/stunt co-ordinator who also taught numerous other Hollywood stars the same skill.

In February 2003, filming of Pitt’s new blockbuster movie Troy was delayed, amid fears of a terrorist attack.

Pitt was furious when a British tabloid accused him of bulking up with the assistance of steroids, because it took such a lot of dedication to get in shape. His spokesperson Cindy Guagenti says Brad has worked extremely hard for months to obtain his look for the film Troy and he does not use steroids under any circumstances (June 23, 2003).

Pitt was devastated after his friend’s death on the set of new film Troy. Pitt became a regular visitor and enjoyed playing poker with George Camilleri, who suffered an horrific leg wound after jumping off a galleon as it approached the beach in the Trojan War epic, before the extra died of heart attack (July 8, 2003).

Pitt planned to remake 1955 James Dean movie East of Eden and play the lead role. The actor had approached the estate of classic author John Steinbeck in a bid to secure movie rights to the novel, which inspired the Oscar-winning flick about two Californian brothers who compete for the love of their father (August 14, 2003).

Pitt abandoned his Troy film set on the island of Malta to have his hair dyed, 2,600 miles away in Britain. He was reportedly concerned the strong Mediterranean sun had damaged his hair, so he contacted his favorite stylist Daniel Galvin and begged him to open up his shop even though it was closed (September 17, 2003).

Police arrested six security guards hired to protect the set of the Brad Pitt’s movie Troy and charged them with stealing an all-terrain motorcycle and tools belonging to the production crew (September 30, 2003).

At first, Pitt didn’t want to appear in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), although it was him who gave the script to director Doug Liman.

Pitt teamed up with Angelina Jolie to star in the action movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith in January 2004.

Pitt gave viewers of his recent film Mr. and Mrs. Smith the sight of his naked posterior (February 7, 2004).

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took to firing guns in preparation for their roles as assassins in the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith (February 12, 2004).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie constantly needed medical treatment, especially after filming a series of sexy clinches in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The doctors blamed a flu-like bug that was sweeping the set and it looked as if the stars kept re-infecting each other (March 13, 2004).

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had immediate chemistry from the first day of the movie’s filming according to Mr. and Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman (May 25, 2005).

Doug Liman fears the sex scenes between Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the movie were so realistic that fans of Pitt’s estranged wife Jennifer Aniston would boycott the film (May 31, 2005).

The director, Doug Liman, insists there were no signs that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were an item on his film set, saying the story was just the tabloids working overtime, trying to explain Pitt’s break-up from wife Jennifer Aniston (June 28, 2005).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie forced Hollywood bosses to switch their new film Mr. & Mrs. Smith from a comedy into a full-scale action movie because they wanted to see who, among the two, could perform the best stunts (June 7, 2005).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie appeared in Tokyo together to promote Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Pitt actually walked out into the lobby of Tokyo’s International Airport carrying Jolie’s adopted daughter, Zahara (November 29, 2005).

For Mr. & Mrs. Smith he was paid $20,000,000.

Pitt was set to play legendary outlaw Jesse James in a film based on the book, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (March 23, 2004).

He quit smoking for months of intense physical training to prepare for his role as Greek hero Achilles in the film Troy (April 21, 2004).

He got into better shape and eventually gained over 20 pounds of muscle for Troy (2004).

Pitt has been branded a wimp by Val Kilmer who claims Pitt’s muscle-bound physique on Troy posters have been air-brushed (June 23, 2004).

He is named the actor with the sexiest bottom on film for his role as Achilles in the Greek epic Troy according to a poll carried out by Odeon cinemas (August 17, 2005).

Troy co-star Rose Byrne credits Pitt’s level-headed attitude with helping her cope with her sudden rise to fame (March 29, 2005).

Brad had a mishap during the production of Troy (2004) and tore his Achilles tendon, in which he plays, ironically, Achilles who is wounded in the Trojan War by an arrow piercing his Achilles tendon. The injury caused the production of Ocean’s Twelve to be pushed back to April 2004.

He was paid $17,500,000 for Troy (2004).

Pitt has appeared in the TV Shows: Friends, Jackass, Growing Pains, 21 Jump Street, Another World and King of the Hill.

He also used to act at the Vandevort Theater in Springfield, Missouri. He still visits and donates to the theater.

Pitt and his Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and Ocean’s Twelve (2004) co- stars, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Elliott Gould have all guest-starred on the TV show Friends (1994), though not in the same episodes.

Eric Bana and Brad Pitt make their trailers during downtime on the set of Troy, which were right next to each other, a bar, where all cast and crew could do was sit around and drink.

Pitt warned Ashton Kutcher off playing a practical joke on Hollywood’s most notorious prankster, George Clooney, because Clooney will make his life a misery (March 24, 2005).

Pitt wanted to play Darcy in Pride & Prejudice (2004), but wasn’t able to work out the filming dates.

He has reportedly canceled a series of interviews for his movie Troy, because he’s sick of answering questions about his marriage to Jennifer Aniston (May 17, 2004).

He caused outrage at the Cannes Film Festival by walking out of the official screening of his film Troy before it had started (May 29, 2004).

Brad Pitt and George Clooney played on each other filming Ocean‘s Twelve. Brad sent a memo to crew members, as if from George, telling them they had to call him Mr. Ocean and not to look him in the eye. George decided to get him back by putting a bumper sticker in the back of Pitt’s car saying „I’m gay and I vote“ (2004).

Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon have found the perfect way to promote their Ocean‘s Twelve, they home video their weekends off.

Pitt cancelled his Ocean‘s Twelve promotional activities in Britain to support his wife Jennifer Aniston as she mourns her close friend’s death (December 18, 2004).

He turned down the chance to star in critical chat show Inside The Actors Studio because he doesn’t think he’s experienced enough (2004).

The first commercial that Brad Pitt ever booked was through Matrix Talent Agency, Los Angeles. His agent was Linda Olhava, sister of film director Jody Lee Olhava.

Pitt won’t normally do American commercials like many A-List stars. Instead, he does commercials that are seen in Asia only, and he has for the last couple of years been the spokesman for Edwin Jeans ads in Japan.

He did TV commercial for Toyota, Altis model. The commercial only aired in Asia. The car became very popular and its sales resulted in Toyota getting an almost 32% share of the passenger car market.

In 2001, he was also the face of the ads for a new Japanese canned coffee which is named Roots. He was replaced in these tv ads (2002) by Kevin Costner.

The one exception to this is a commerical he’s been shooting with David Fincher for Heineken.

He earned $4,500,000 in 2005 for a Heineken commercial that aired during the 2005 Super Bowl.

Pitt was trained to handle weapons by renowned Hollywood gun coach Thell Reed, who has also trained such actors as Val Kilmer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Sam Elliot, Girard Swan, Ben Foster and Kurt Russell.

A freelance photographer was arrested for sneaking into the set of his new movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in Fort Edmonton, Canada (September 13, 2005).

While shooting the movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, he was scolded by Canadian police after he left the kitchen window of his cabin open, resulting in a horde of brown bears on his property; the bears was attracted by the smell of food coming from his kitchen (November 1, 2005).

In October 2005, three paparazzo trying to photograph Pitt on the set of forthcoming movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, have been arrested (October 8, 2005).

Pitt‘s production company, Plan B, faced legal action over allegations from a French screenwriter that his Oscar-winning oil thriller Syriana was copied (April 7, 2006).

In June 2006, Pitt says he will never get an Oscar because there is too much competition for the coveted award .

Pitt upset George Clooney because he hadn‘t signed his contract for Ocean‘s 13 as he was in Namibia, Africa with Angelina Jolie, who was expecting their first child. (May 11, 2006).

His production company, Plan B, beat out DiCaprio’s Appian Way label in a bidding war for the film rights to Max Brooks’ zombie-powered World War Z (June 16, 2006).

Brad Pitt’s name is mentioned in the song High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup and in Shania Twain’s That Don’t Impress Me Much.

First-time novelist Audrey Niffenegger announced on the “Today” show’s Book Club that Pitt and wife Jennifer Aniston had just bought the film rights to her novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. They are to both star in the film.

Pitt says he will be more picky about his movie roles because he worries what his children might think of him when they are old enough to watch his movies (September 13, 2006). He won‘t be filming any more nude scenes, because he doesn‘t want his kids to see them (December, 2007).

He denied rumors that he would replace Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible franchise (September 26, 2006).

He was originally cast as Colin Sullivan in The Departed (2006), but later dropped out. He continued to produce the film under his and his ex. wife Jennifer Aniston production company, Plan B.

Pitt regularly made his Babel co-stars smile by yanking his underwear above the waist of his trousers and waddling about like a duck (October 28, 2006).

When Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in India shooting the film A Mighty Heart they received threats on their lives from members of terrorist group al-Qaeda because of the political nature of the film (November 3, 2006).

Pitt was so impressed with the success of gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain, he wanted to find a script which could portray the ultimate gay love story (February 2, 2006).

Pitt left his hand and feet prints in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on June 6, 2007.

He was left shaken when a female fan tried to push past bodyguards and thow her arms around him at the premiere of his film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, at the Venice Film Festival (September 2007).

Pitt was supposed to reunite with his Fight Club co-star Edward Norton in the big screen version of the acclaimed BBC TV series State of Play (September 12, 2007). He pulled out in November, to be replaced by Russell Crowe.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie are teaming up to produce a new TV series based on the lives of aid workers (October 22, 2007).

He pulled out of Universal’s political thriller State of Play because of script concerns (November 22, 2007).

He and Russell Crowe were director Ridley Scott’s first two choices for the lead in American Gangster (2007). Crowe was eventually cast.

Pitt was so embarrassed by his performance in his early works like Cutting Glass, Meet Joe Black and Seven Years inTibet that he’s apologised to film critics (2007).

In December 2007, Pitt was in talks to star in Terrence Malick’s big-screen drama Tree of Life.

Pitt is set to produce and star in Lost City of Z, a new action-adventure movie about the hunt for a lost city in the Amazon (April 1, 2008).

He has been officially cast in writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming World War II film Inglorious Basterds (August 8, 2008).

He is being lined up for an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey set in outer space (October 2008).

Pitt is stepping behind the camera to take a new superhero to the big screen Battling Boy (November 2008).

He was roughed up by a security guard who was trying to shelter him from the paparazzi at Los Angeles screening of his movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (November 2008).

Angelina & Brad’s daughter has a cameo role playing Cate Blanchett’s baby in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. When twin sisters hired to take turns playing Cate Blanchett’s daughter wouldn’t settle down, Brad grabbed Shiloh, who had been in the on-set day care centre, and put her in the costume.

Pitt, who sports mustache in his upcoming war movie Inglorious Basterds, says it is his ”goal” to bring mustaches back (December 2008).

Pitt and Natalie Portman are coupling up to star in the silver screen adaptation of the new Leanne Shapton book “Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry (March 2009).

Pitt has appeared in eight movies with a number in the title and only one of them uses an actual number rather than spelling the word out. That is Se7en (1995), which is a combination of the two. He has appeared in one movie with the number Zero in the title, one with the number Two in the title, three with the number Seven in the title (Se7en (1995), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)), one with the number Eleven and two with the Twelve (Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Twelve Monkeys (1995).

He has been in seven movies where the title contains the name of the character he plays: Johnny Suede (1991), Meet Joe Black (1998), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Chad Schmidt (2010).

Trivia – Various Subjects

Brad is 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 metres).

Brad is interested in music.

Brad would prefer being a rockstar than an actor.

Brad has a Single Engine Land pilot license.

He occasionally flies a Cessna 208B Caravan belonging to Chivan Productions.

Brad is a Vegetarian.

His favorite food is pizza.

Brad likes dogs and chameleons.

Brad Pitt owns and plays Taylor Guitars.

His hobbies include interior designing, architecture and nature, collecting functional metal art pieces and furniture.

Brad’s favorite TV show is All In The Family. His favorite movies include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Planet of the Apes and Saturday Night Fever.

Dianne Wiest is Pitt‘s favorite actress.

Pitt has a home at Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey.

He said that he was glad to be an American and it made him proud to live there.

Pitt shares a birthday with Katie Holmes, Christina Aguilera, DMX, Ray Liotta, film critic Leonard Maltin, Casper Van Dien and filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

Pitt dated Jill Schoelen whom he met on the set of their film Cutting Class (1989).

He dated Juliette Lewis. They met when they filmed the NBC movie of the week entitled Too Young to Die? (1990). Pitt and Lewis also did the film Kalifornia (1993) together.

He briefly dated Geena Davis, his co-star in Thelma & Louise (1991).

He lived in Southern California with friend Buck Simmonds, who starred with Pitt in the movie A River Runs Through It (May 1992).

Pitt was involved in a long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Pitt announced his engagement to the actress in december 1996, but the pair split in June 1997. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded the relationship. Nude photographs of the couple, taken by paparazzi without permission, controversially appeared in magazines.

Pitt donated $100,000 to the Discovery Center - a children’s learning museum in his hometown of Springfield, MO (June 1996).

He purchased a mansion in Southern California from the actress who portrays Elvira (Cassandra Peterson). He reportedly paid $1.7 million for the house. This mansion is filled with antiques and has a vampirish look to it (1996).

There’re a gossip in music world that Pitt is the father of the rock star Melissa Etheridge’s daughters, Bailey and Beckett, along with the other names: Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks.

Many years ago, a prostitute, using only the name of Olivia, released a tell-all book, claiming she was paid $660 to have sex with Brad Pitt.

Brad sued Playgirl magazine in 1997 to stop the publication of nude photos of him.

A girl went to Pitt’s Hollywood-area home shortly after midnight on January the 7th, 1999 and crawled in through an open window, dressed herself in his clothes and stayed for 10 hours before the alarm went off. Athena Rolando, 19, was ordered on February the 10th to not contact the actor and to stay 100 yards away from him for three years (1999).

Brad Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston met on a blind date, which was arranged by their agent

Before his July 2000 nuptials with Jennifer Aniston, Pitt contacted the late Jeff Buckley’s mother, Mary, to get permission to use Buckley’s music at their wedding. The pair listened to him while dating.

He married Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. It was a $20 million ocean-view wedding. Jennifer filed for a divorce on March 25, 2005. Their divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.

Brad and Jennifer often chatted by webcam when they were working in different locations.

Brad took Greek language lessons in secret to surprise his ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, who is of Greek ancestry.

Brad splashed out on a $21,000 birthday party for his beloved wife Jennifer Aniston.

In 2001, the architect Frank O. Gehry renovated the wine cellar in the home in which Pitt and his wife, Jennifer Aniston lived. Pitt subsequently did an informal apprenticeship in Gehry’s Los Angeles office.

Pitt sued Damiani International, the company which made the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. The company has since been selling replicas and indicating Pitt/Aniston’s endorsement of the ring (July 18, 2001).

Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reached a settlement with Damiani International. The pair claimed the company agreed to never reproduce their wedding rings, but it manufactured and sold “Brad and Jennifer” rings in 18 karat white or yellow gold, featuring either 12 or 13 diamonds and costing about $1,000 a piece. Under the settlement, Pitt will now co-design a jewelry line with Damiani that Aniston will model in ads, and the company will stop selling the Pitt and Aniston copies (January 11, 2002).

Pitt missed his wife Jennifer Aniston’s big night at the Hollywood Film Awards because he was back home celebrating his parents’ wedding anniversary (October 10, 2002).

One night in October 2002 Pitt kept himself up all night looking at videos of his house because he feared the threat of intruders.

Pitt is sought after for magazine covers and posters worldwide, but the Malaysian government believes the Hollywood star’s appearance in a recent series of car advertisements in this region was an insult to Asians. Deputy Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said that ads featuring models and personalities who don’t look Asian would plant a sense of inferiority among Asians (December 17, 2002).

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston turned Christmas into a season of sexual frolics, by buying each other naughty gifts. The couple didn’t leave their Beverly Hills mansion over the festive season where it is rumored they haven’t even left the bedroom (December 28, 2002).

Brad and Jennifer have been rowing over when to start a family. Pitt is so desperate to become a daddy that he was sorely disappointed to hear that his wife had signed on to do a tenth series of Friends (January 16, 2003).

The news all men wanted to hear: Voted one of the sexiest guys alive, Brad Pitt has dandruff, according to a Britain tabloid, since letting his hair grow long and straggly Pitt’s suffered from a flaking scalp (January 31, 2003).

He has the best eyes and lips among male celebrities, according to an annual survey conducted by the Beverly Hills Institute For Aesthetic And Reconstructive Surgery in Los Angeles (February 6, 2003).

Pitt has proved it’s not just in movies where he’s an action hero. He was having a cigarette on the sidewalk outside Dan Tana’s Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, when he saw a sports car jump the curb and hurtle towards a female pedestrian; Brad then pushed the woman out of the way before the wayward driver plowed into her (February 26, 2003).

He looked to be teaming up with supermodel Cindy Crawford’s husband Rande Gerber to put into action his plan for a ‘Rat Pack’-style hotel venture. Pitt had already been reported as working with actor George Clooney to plan a chain of hotels across the world. He had then already scouted for land in Las Vegas that will be suitable for the star-studded venture (July 9, 2003).

In August 2003, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston finally moved into the Hollywood dream home they had bought two years before, prompting speculation they were ready to start a family.

He and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston campaigned in the United States to save “EastEnders” (1985) from being axed there (2003).

For his 40th birthday, Jennifer Aniston gave Brad a silk-screened-on-canvas image of Steve McQueen’s 1972 mug shot. McQueen is Pitt’s all-time idol.

He was in talks to portray Marvel superhero Captain America, a role he said he had wanted to play for a long time (Early 2004).

A doorman refused to let Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who were caught in a rain storm while out jogging, into a top Italian hotel after mistaking the actors for vagrants (March 17, 2004).

Pitt is to narrate a British Broadcasting Corp. radio series about one of his musical idols, British songwriter Nick Drake (April 7, 2004).

In May 2004, Pitt insisted his marriage to Jennifer Aniston was fine despite hinting shortly before that it may not last forever (May 12, 2004).

Pitt led a chorus of celebrities congratulating his former fiancee Gwyneth Paltrow on the birth of her daughter (May 25, 2004).

Wildfires threatened the Los Angeles ocean front home of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston while they away in Europe (June 10, 2004).

Pitt bought wife Jennifer Aniston a yacht, which was originally purchased by Richard Burton in 1967, when he wanted to congratulate Elizabeth Taylor on her Oscar for Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (July 23, 2004).

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston bought English home belonging to their celebrity chef pal Jamie Oliver (November 3, 2004).

Pitt and Jennifer Aniston visited Ethiopia for a four-day trip to learn more about the effects of the autoimmune disease in Africa (November 10, 2004).

Pitt‘s best friend is Troy (2004) co-star Orlando Bloom.

Pitt was featured in a 30 second television ad, which formed part of the Nelson Mandela 46664 Aids campaigne (2004).

Pitt was secretly coaching Matt Damon to become the Sexiest Man Alive after Damon lost out to Jude Law on the year’s People magazine list in 2004.

With looks that have inspired countless People magazine covers, Internet shrines, and estrogen surges, Brad Pitt is an actor whose very name inspires drooling platitudes, more about male beauty than about acting.

Pitt announced on January the 7th, 2005 that he and Jennifer Aniston were separating after 4 1/2 years of marriage.

Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were set for a bitter legal battle over their $190 million fortune after failing to sign a pre-nuptial agreement (January 18, 2005).

Pitt’s gran is convinced he and Jennifer Aniston are only on a trail separation and will rekindle their romance (February 4, 2005).

Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s split was rated the most fascinating break-up of 2005 in a survey by USA Today.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s shocking split left London waxwork museum Madame Tussaud’s facing a $19,000 bill. Staff had to re-mould the Hollywood couple as they were to become the first joined waxworks figures at the London venue (February 21, 2005).

Experts found that a new virus that purports to offer steamy pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie contained a payload targeted at Microsoft (April 1, 2005).

Pitt handed over keys to the $14 million Hollywood mansion he shared with Jennifer Aniston to his estranged wife (April 1, 2005).

After giving estranged wife Jennifer Aniston their Hollywood home, Pitt bought a Malibu, California cliff-top retreat for $9 million (April 7, 2005).

Pitt was among the A-list celebrities featured in a public service announcements for a campaign led by U2 singer Bono to fight poverty and AIDS (April 7, 2005).

After losing a high stakes bidding war to rival Us Weekly for exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie strolling along a secluded African beach, Star magazine used doctored photos to recreate the stars’ romantic rendezvous on its cover. A tiny note on page 8 says, The image on the cover … is a composite of two photographs (April 30, 2005).

Pitt said he did not understand the idea that marriage had to be forever (May 14, 2005).

Pitt said he still loved estranged wife Jennifer Aniston because he respected the way she was dealing with their divorce (May 14, 2005).

Pitt was astonished by the amount of money Angelina Jolie donated to charity, and was convinced the screen beauty was more interested in helping good causes than making movies (May 16, 2005).

Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend, Portia de Rossi, bought Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s Beverly Hills house (June 2, 2005). Pitt and Jennifer Aniston sold their former home for $28 million (October 3, 2005).

In June 2005, Pitt called the media focus on his personal life misguided, and denied that he wanted children and Aniston didn’t (June 7, 2005).

Pitt defended his decision to punish reporters who interfere his personal life in interview sessions, insisting he was just using a little personal justice (June 9, 2005).

Pitt was dismayed to discover photos of his Kenyan beach holiday with alleged lover Angelina Jolie earned a persistent photographer in excess of $500,000 because he said the money could have been much better spent (June 9, 2005).

A jar containing air reportedly breathed by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is being sold on the internet auction site eBay (June 30, 2005).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie were photographed playing happy families with her son Maddox at her English country estate (July 1, 2005).

According to a survey by British magazine Grazia, most women want their men to emerge looking like Pitt if they could have cosmetic surgery (July 13, 2005).

Pitt attended the Hollywood Foreign Press Association lunche in Beverly Hills, California to dish out donations to non-profit organizations and film schools (July 22, 2005).

Pitt blasted the media for using unflattering pictures of estranged wife Jennifer Aniston to illustrate how badly his relationship with Angelina Jolie has hit her (August 22, 2005).

In August 2005, Pitt left his Billy Idol blond look and decided to wear black hair.

Pitt took care of Angelina Jolie’s adopted children while she filmed The Good Shepherd in New York (August 31, 2005).

According to a pool made by British TV channel Five, Pitt is the celebrity most men wish they looked like (September 1, 2005).

A life-sized photo of Pitt and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston was left behind in the mansion they once shared reportedly because neither Pitt nor Aniston wanted it (September 3, 2005).

Pitt’s parents are said to have warned their son to be careful with his relationship with Angelina Jolie, recalling her bad marriage history (September 7, 2005).

Pitt helped designing a British $525 million housing and sports complex in a British seaside town. But the residents of the town didn’t like the complex, said it looked like tin-can towers and crumpled Victorian dresses (September 24, 2005).

According to relationship expert John Gray, Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s marriage was doomed from the start. He said they started out like the prom king and queen; he was the sexiest man and she the sexiest woman. That kind of pressure makes it hard to make a relationship last (September 30, 2005).

According to rumors among paparazzi, a picture with Brad canoodling Angelina Jolie can fetch up to $500,000 (October 8, 2005).

Pitt has reportedly formed a plan to foil the paparazzi from nabbing photos of him and Angelina Jolie and their ready made adopted family; he has bought a secluded, modest getaway cabin in the Canadian wilderness and instructed his bodyguards to take pictures of any snappers who follow him and Jolie should he need evidence one day in court after he presses harassment charges (October 11, 2005).

Pitt calls the police after catching a paparazzi peeping into his living room through a window (November 3, 2005).

In November 2005, he visited Pakistan with Angelina Jolie to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In 2006, Jolie and Pitt also went to Haiti where they visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie made their first public appearance together at The Muhammad Ali Center’s Grand Opening Gala in Louisville (November 22, 2005).

Pitt donated 40 orthopaedic beds to victims of the Pakistan earthquake (December 30, 2005).

Pitt topped a poll by Oxygen magazine for the best rear in Hollywood (2005).

He was considered as a future United Nations goodwill ambassador by Secretary General Kofi Annan (January 20, 2006).

A sonogram picture purporting to be Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby has been removed from auction website eBay.com after eBay bosses decided it violated their policy on celebrity materials (January 21, 2006).

In February 2006, Pitt and Jennifer Aniston concluded their $60 million divorce settlement. Aniston will be the sole owner of their $29 million Beverly Hills mansion, and Pitt now solely owns the former couple’s lucrative film company Plan B Productions with Grey’s departure for Paramount .

In March 2006 was a rumor that Pitt and Angelina Jolie were due to marry at pal George Clooney’s villa on Lake Como that was proved wrong. According to locals, police in the Lake Como area were on alert and a private security firm had increased security around Clooney’s villa (March 21, 2006).

Pitt sponsored a competition that chose architects to rebuild part of New Orleans, teaming up with Global Green USA in their campaign aiming to find environmentally-friendly designs for the houses that were going to be rebuilt (April 22, 2006).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie asking the press to respect their privacy while they await the birth of their child in the African country of Namibia, giving a local journalist a statement; To the local people who have been so kind and gracious, thank you for making us feel at home. As for the press, we kindly ask for privacy so that we can enjoy this beautiful country with our children (April 24, 2006).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly signed a $5-million deal for the first pictures of their unborn baby. And the money will go to children’s charity Unicef (May 19, 2006).

Pitt sent an e-mail to the Cannes Film Festival to wish the cast of his new film Babel luck, saying he was unable to attend because of the imminent birth of his baby with Angelina Jolie (May 24, 2006).

The daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born on the 27th of May, 2006 in Namibia, Africa.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie celebrated the birth of their daughter in Namibia by donating $300,000 to help other babies in this impoverished southern African country (May 30, 2006).

Pitt‘s parents arrived in Namibia via private plane on June 2, 2006 to meet their new granddaughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

A paparazzo was arrested in June 2006 for investigation of trespassing while trying to photograph Angelina and Brad’s adopted child, Maddox, at a day care centre the child was attending. The photographer was not charged, as prosecutors decided there was a lack of sufficient evidence.

A Jordanian man was caught trying to get cash from a money exchanger by using a fake ID with a photo of Brad Pitt (June 30, 2006).

Pitt and high-profile architects urged New Orleans to think green, selecting a series of environmentally friendly housing projects they hope to build in the hurricane-hit city (July 17, 2006).

Barely two months since her birth, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby Shiloh Nouvel has been chosen to be the first infant ever memorialized in wax by Madame Tussauds (July 26, 2006).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie are said to be leaving their beachfront compound in Malibu for it happens to be a bit too close to his ex wife Jennifer Aniston (August 18, 2006).

In September 2006, Brad and Angelina were forced to hastily set up a charity when questions were asked about where $5.5 million they got for selling photos of Shiloh, despite their promise the cash would go to charity.

Pitt revealed the winning architects in his competition to find an environment-conscious design for a new building project in New Orleans: Andrew Kotchen and Matthew Berman of New York firm Workshop/APD (September 2, 2006).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie launched a range of African homeware products in Paris in September 2006.

Pitt said he was not going to marry Angelina Jolie until restrictions on gay marriage are dropped (September 9, 2006).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly asked David Beckham to be Maddox’ s private instructor because the five-year-old has showed such promise since enrolling at the David Beckham Soccer Academy, in Los Angeles (October 4, 2006).

Pitt said he wants to have lots more children so he can have his own soccer team (October 6, 2006).

In October 2006 two employees of E! Networks, a producer and cameraman, were sacked after accusations that they trespassed in the grounds of Pitt’s Hollywood mansion. In November 2006 Brad sought trespassing charges against the E! Networks.

His representatives hit out at Vanity Fair after it splashed semi-naked photos of the actor on the cover of its December issue because he was not consulted by the magazine’s representative before the printing of the cover (November 2, 2006).

Brad and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving holiday traveling around the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike (November 25, 2006).

Pitt denied allegations that three bodyguards racially insulted parents and children at an Indian Islamic school during the shooting of a film starring his partner Angelina Jolie (November 20, 2006).

Angelina Jolie treated him to a tour of a famous house built by his architectural idol Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, for his 43th birthday (December 11, 2006).

Brad Pitt established the Jolie-Pitt Foundation with Angelina Jolie. They have built two healthcare centers for children in Cambodia and Ethiopia, giving access to those with TB and HIV/AIDS access to drugs and care.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie used their star power to help The Children’s Health Fund. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed the children’s homes. Brad and Angelina have made New Orleans their home and have been working to help the area recover.

According to federal tax filings, Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave over $8 million for their foundation in 2006.

Pitt is adoptive father of Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Zahara Jolie-Pitt with Angelina Jolie.

Pitt and Zahara enjoyed a father-daughter playdate in New York City: a horse-drawn carriage ride and an ice-cream treat. The couple has made a point to spend one-on-one time with each of their children. “Every day is just about making sure that their schooling is going right and their manners are intact and we’re disciplining properly and we’re spending enough time with them individually, so they seem special,” Jolie told USA Today.

In March 2007, he and his girlfriend Angelina Jolie adopted a 3-year-old boy named Pax Thien from Vietnam (born November 29th 2003). Pitt and Angelina Jolie officially adopted little Pax in February 2008, almost a year after rescuing him from a Vietnamese orphanage.

Both Jolie and Pitt have a zeal for life that their kids have inherited. Pitt, who once told Oprah Winfrey having children was a dream, is a playful dad who loves letting loose, like tubing down the mountain with Pax at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort in central California. “They have this incredible warmth for kids” says pal Wyclef Jean.

Kidnappers reportedly planned to abduct Pitt‘s Vietnamese son Pax when Jolie and the boy arrived back in the US on March 19, 2007, and hold the three year old to ransom for $100million.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie were reportedly buying a $138million Italian yacht (April 12, 2007).

Besides far-flung locations across the world like Cambodia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, India and Namibia, New York City is a favorite destination for the Jolie-Pitts. The family (disembarking after a helicopter ride around the Big Apple in 2007) has visited the Central Park Zoo and loves snacking on hot dogs and pretzels just like the locals.

Pitt launched an ambitious new drive to shave millions off America’s annual energy bill, by urging people to harness natural resources (August 24, 2007).

Pitt denied a report from Star magazine that his adopted daughter with Angelina Jolie, Zahara, is in need of hip surgery (September 17, 2007).

Pitt moved with Angelina Jolie and their four children to New Orleans in 2007.

Pitt was in talks to star in The Fighter, a new biopic of Massachusetts-born boxer ‘Irish’ Mickey Ward (September 21, 2007).

According to an expert psychotherapist, Pitt and Angelina Jolie may not be doing their children any favours by constantly moving from city to city around the world (October 2007).

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh was named the most influential infant in the world by Forbes magazine (December 2007).

Pitt told Larry King in an interview that he wanted more children with his partner Angelina Jolie (December 2007).

Forbes Magazine estimated in 2007 Pitt‘s earnings for the year to be $35 million.

Pitt denied reports that he and Angelina Jolie had received a kidnap threat against their biological daughter Shiloh (February 7, 2008).

Pitt provided a new lease of life to the poorest residents of New Orleans, Louisiana who were left homeless by Hurricane Katrina - by providing them with 150 pink-painted houses (March 2008).

Not On Our Watch, co-founded by Pitt, George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, producer Jerry Weintraub and civil rights lawyer David Pressman, has donated $500,000 to a U.N. food aid agency to help it continue flights in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region (March 13, 2008).

In May 2008, Brad and Angelina Jolie bought a chateau on the French Riviera worth $72 million. The Chateau Miraval contains 3 bedrooms, a forest, lake and a moat. Johnny Depp and Bono are close neighbors.

The Jolie-Pitt family planned to move to their new home in France for good to give their children a break from the photographers.

Pitt will be part of a team of consultants appointed to design a new five-star hotel and leisure development in Dubai (June 2, 2008).

He saw a Radiohead concert with his Fight Club co-star Edward Norton (June 18, 2008).

Pitt spent more than $500,000 at a design exhibition in Switzerland (June 2008).

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to children affected by the Iraq war; $500,000 for school supplies and education programs for refugee children in Iraq and $500,000 for American children who either lost a parent deployed in Iraq or have a parent serving in that country (June 25, 2008).

On July 12th 2008 in Nice, France, Angelina Jolie gave birth to twins, a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline.

Brad actually cut his twin babies’ umbilical cords (July 2008).

Pitt said he was longing for sleep following the birth of his twins in July (September 2008).

Brad has nothing but praise for Angelina and her mothering skills.

The mayor of the French city Nice, where the Brad and Angelina‘s twins were be born, said they could have French citizenship if they choose (July 4, 2008).

After Knox and Vivienne’s birth on July 12 at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, their heralded arrival made the front page of the Nice-Matin paper. According to Mayor Christian Estrosi, Pitt repeatedly told him, “I’m the happiest father ever” about the births of his twins.

Photographs of Brad and Angelina’s newborn twins are expected to fetch $20 million (July 2008).

Big sister Shiloh paved the way for Knox and Vivienne to become People cover babies when she made her official debut on the June 19, 2006, cover of the magazine. “To see the father, mother, daughter – it was such a beautiful image that it overtook me,” Jolie’s brother James Haven told People of seeing the family together.

In July 2008, Brad´s lawyers threatened legal action against any news outlet that published photographs of himself, Angelina or their children while at their French residence, declaring it an evasion of privacy.

Pitt and Angelina Jolie sold pictures of their new born twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon, for $14m to People magazine and Hello! All proceeds went to charity (August 1, 2008). In an exclusive interview and photos, including 19 pages of intimate family photos, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie offer People an intimate look at their growing family.

Despite reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wedded in a New Orleans church recently, a source close to the couple tells People there was “no wedding.”

Fortunately, they already have some household helpers. “[Shiloh] and Z pick out [the twins'] clothes and help change and hold them,” said Jolie. “It’s sweet – they are little mommies.”

Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline’s first home is Chateau Miraval, an 800-acre estate in Provence, France, complete with its own vineyard, olive groves, lake, moat, 20 fountains and a forest perfect for keeping prying eyes out (though that hasn’t stopped the paparazzi from trying). The Jolie-Pitt family has a long-term lease on the chateau, worth a reported $70 million.

Pitt registered his family at Brignoles town hall just after they moved to the south of France, meaning he and Angelina Jolie are eligible for an orphan allowance of $508.97 for each of their three adopted children, Maddox, seven, Pax, four, and three-year-old Zahara. The couple could also claim a nanny payment of $975.84 a month for new twins Knox and Vivienne and biological daughter Shiloh, two (August 2008).

When they’re not frolicking at their French chateau or living life in the Big Easy, the Jolie-Pitt clan enjoy the laidback California lifestyle at their home near Santa Barbara. Pitt also owns an oceanfront house in Malibu and one in Los Feliz in the Hollywood Hills, where they spend much of their time when they’re visiting Los Angeles.

With movie stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as parents, photographers snapping pictures will be part of Knox and Vivienne’s everyday A-list life. Even before they were born, Knox and Vivienne were the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, – check out that bump! – which Pitt and Jolie attended in May to promote her films Kung Fu Panda and The Changeling. Local newspaper Nice-Matin announced that the twins had even upstaged their famous parents: “The real stars of the festival are Angelina’s babies.”

Pitt reportedly photographed partner Angelina Jolie and their six children at their French estate Chateau Miraval for the November cover of W magazine (August 2008).

Pitt said his son Knox Leon looked like Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin when he was born (August 2008).

The Jolie-Pitt children already have more stamps on their passports than most adults will have in their lives. And Knox and Vivienne will be no exception. They were proclaimed real “Niçois” (citizens of Nice) by the French town’s mayor after they were born there, and are destined to be regular citizens of the world like their big sisters and brothers, Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2 (2008).

Pitt and Jolie stop their children watching television so they don’t ask for toys.

The couple encourages their kids to be kids, indulging them in toy-buying sprees and nurturing their sense of creativity. When the Jolie-Pitts visit New York City, they make sure to stop into Lee’s Art Shop to pick up items for craft-making projects.

Both Jolie and Pitt have instilled in their kids an awareness of the world around them, which will surely be passed on to Knox and Vivienne. Jolie continues to work as a United Nations goodwill ambassador and the couple established the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, through which they recently donated $1 million to children affected by the war in Iraq. Jolie has said, “If celebrities have the ability to raise awareness, then that’s what they should do.”

Pitt saved a young fan from drowning in Venice, Italy (August 2008).

Pitt has as overtaken Paris Hilton as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberpace, according to the second annual study by Internet security company McAfee (September 2008).

Brad Pitt spent four days in Ethiopia to learn more about AIDS in Africa as part of a fund-raising campaign to combat the disease on the world’s poorest continent. He visited local projects fighting the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS & also met with eight top Ethiopian singers who have collaborated on songs to educate people about HIV and to raise money for AIDS programs.

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation made a $2 million donation to establish a HIV and AIDS clinic for children in Ethiopia (September 14, 2008).

Pitt visited over 100 orphans affected by HIV at a facility run by The Salvation Army in South Africa.

Pitt donated $100,000 to fight California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples’ right to marry (September 17, 2008).

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated $1 million to the Human Rights Watch’s work in Burma and Zimbabwe (2008).

In November 2008, Pitt said his two-and-half-year-old daughter Shiloh will only respond to the name John.

Pitt said he will marry Angelina Jolie when their six children express a desire to see their parents tie the knot (December 2008).

Pitt defended his partner Angelina Jolie, following a recent New York Times report that claims she manipulates the media, saying, “She is savvy” (December 2008).

Ellen Degeneres sent Chippendales Dancers to George Clooney’s office in an ongoing effort to court the actor to make an appearance on her television show, based on Pitt’s advice. Unfortunately, only the staff at his office enjoyed Ellen’s hunky gift, as he was not there (December 5, 2008).

Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly conceived their twins using in vitro fertilization (2008).

Pitt said he and Angelina Jolie moved to New Orleans because they felt ‘’something mystical could happen” there (2008).

He reportedly installed a $500,000 security system in his home in New Orleans to keep their children safe.

Brad and Angelina’s Jolie-Pitt foundation has donated $100,000 to the Global Action for Children charity (December 2008).

Brad is an ambassador for DATA, an advocacy group that champions debt reduction, fair trade and AIDS relief in Africa.

Brad Pitt is a Patron of the Mineseeker Foundation and the Sole of Africa, a campaign dedicated to detecting and removing land mines in Africa. The Foundation’s patrons include Nelson Mandela, Sir Richard Branson, Queen Noor, Graca Machel and John Paul de Joria.

Pitt said he wanted to build 150 environmentally friendly homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in a hard-hit New Orleans neighborhood (December 4, 2007).

In order to help alleviate the hardships of Katrina victims, Brad formed the “Make It Right” foundation to reconstruct the homes that were destroyed in 2005. To that end, he has secured the help of Mike Holmes of Holmes on Homes to build houses that can withstand hurricane force winds and flooding.

Brad Pitt had an interview with Ann Curry to talk about his Make It Right Foundation project in New Orleans and he also talked about his family.

Former President Bill Clinton joined Pitt in New Orleans to help him with his charity, Make It Right Foundation, which aims to build 150 new affordable homes for the victims of Hurricane Katrina (March 16, 2008).

Brad Pitt donated 5 million dollars of his own money to rebuild 150 New Orleans homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina – just in time for Christmas (December 2008).

Brad and Angelina were ranked 5 on Forbes magazine’s list of Hollywood’s Top-Earning Couples with $34 million (2008).

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were at the SAG Awards together recently. They had a lively interview on the red carpet saying that their family consisting of three adopted children and three biological children was overdue for more.

He and Angelina Jolie reportedly jumped over a hedge to gain entry to the VIP Paramount party at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel on 2009 Golden Globes night (January 11, 2009).

Pitt got sent a chocolate award in the shape of his face by Deodorant brand AXE to make up for losing out on an Oscar (February 2009).

U2 guitarist The Edge thinks Brad Pitt would be the perfect person to portray him if a film about the Irish group was ever made (2009).

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie purposely ignored an interview from Ryan Seacrest at the 2009 Golden Globes. Seacrest also tried to interview Jolie back in 2006 and he said later she was very cold to him.

Brad has made reservations with Richard Branson to fly into space in 2010.

Trivia – Nominations, Awards and Honors

Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1991″ in John Willis Screen World, Vol. 43 (1991).

He was given the title “Sexiest Man Alive” from People Magazine in 1995, after making Legends of the Fall (1994).

In 1995 he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 “Sexiest Stars in film history.” He was number 23 on the list.

He was listed in People Weeklys “Most Intriguing People list” (December 25, 1995/January 1, 1996 issue).

Nominated for Best On-Screen Duo at MTV Movie Awards for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1995) - shared with Tom Cruise.

Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama at Golden Globe Awards for Legends of the Fall (1995).

In 1995 he was voted “Best Actor” by viewers of MTV’s “The Big Picture” (1988).

In 1996 he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Twelve Monkeys (1995).

Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for Twelve Monkeys (1996).

Nominated for Best Male Performance at MTV Movie Awards for Twelve Monkeys (1996).

Was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world (1996).

Nominated for Best On-Screen Duo at MTV Movie Awards for Se7en (1996) - shared with Morgan Freeman.

Ranked 32 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list (October 1997).

In 2000 he was given title “Sexiest Man Alive” from People Magazine.

Is the first man ever to be named “Sexiest Man Alive” twice by “People Magazine” (1994 and 2000).

Was nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action Team in 2000 for Fight Club - shared with Edward Norton.

Nominated for Best On-Screen Team at MTV Movie Awards for Ocean‘s Eleven (2002).

Nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at Emmy Awards for Friends (2002).

Voted 1 in Company magazine’s annual “100 Sexiest Men” poll, 2004.

Brad was listed as a potential nominee for the 2005 Razzie Awards. He was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Actor category for his performance in the film Troy (2004) but he did not receive a nomination.

Premiere Magazine ranked him as 50 on a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature (2005).

Ranked 20 on “Top 100 Celebrities” (2006).

Ranked 15 on Premiere’s 2006 “Power 50″ list. Had ranked 31 in 2005.

Voted 100th place on a list of un-sexy men by The Boston Pheonix, apparently due to unhygienic grooming habits (April 21, 2006).

Voted 6 in Elle (France) Magazine’s “15 Sexiest Men” poll (June 2007).

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were ranked 2 FoxNews.com’s list of Favorite Couples of 2008.

Brad and Angelina made Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 Most Influential People (May 2008).

Brad and Angelina was named 2008’s Best Dressed Couple by Vanity Fair.

Ranked 10 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list. His girlfriend, Angelina Jolie, ranked 3.

Ranked 3 on ET’s annual Hot List, top 20 people of 2008.

He was ranked 6 on VH1s “100 Hottest Hotties.”

He was named the Most Powerful Actor in 2008 in the list compiled by Guinness Book of World Records 2009.

Nominated for Best Actor at Academy Awards for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009).

Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama at Golden Globe Awards for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009).