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Brad Pitt Hobbies

Superstars often are not thought to have hobbies, as we see them in movies and television portraying so many different personalities. However, actors do have interests beyond the big screen and this poses the question of one of those Hollywood icons, what are the Brad Pitt hobbies? Aside from the assumption that Brad Pitt hobbies are acting and producing movies, what is it that Brad really enjoys when he is not entangled in another movie production?

In various interviews and associations with fans, Brad has revealed many of the activities that he enjoys when not portraying the likable characters we familiarize ourselves with on the silver screen. Brad Pitt hobbies include some of the same interests he had when he was in high school. Brad was a member of the swim team as well as the Golf and Tennis teams. Those past Brad Pitt hobbies are still in his occasional agenda as he enjoys those activities when his schedule permits.

Although his interests in other early activities are no longer a fascination, early Brad Pitt hobbies included the Forensics Club in high school. Brad obviously had a love for writing and marketing, as his major in College was Journalism with a minor in advertising.

Present Brad Pitt hobbies include Interior design and architecture as he has revealed a love for the work of famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Brad has notably made a practice of buying functional metal art pieces and furniture for his home.

Of course, many Brad Pitt hobbies are not as well known, Brad plays guitar in his spare time, which probably is related to his early childhood love of music, especially when he sang in the choir. Other little known Brad Pitt hobbies involve his passion for traveling the world. Recently, he and his family have spent a great deal of time in Germany and France where the family has a chateau.

One thing that could be added to the list of Brad Pitt hobbies may be the collection of movie and film Awards, since he was recently nominated for an Oscar in his blockbuster hit ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. He can add that to his collection of more than 40 other film awards.

Whether he is playing his guitar, working out or traveling, one of the most important Brad Pitt hobbies as admitted by Brad, himself, is spending time with his children. Brad enjoys the Family time he has with his six children and love of his life Angelina Jolie.

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Brad Pitt Gallery

From his early days as a hot young blonde actor in ‘Thelma and Louise’, to his most recent distinguished look in ‘The Curse of Benjamin Button’, the variety of Brad Pitt gallery photos is virtually endless. Appearing in more than 35 movies, dozens of television episodes, hundreds of magazine covers and centers, and even in a game show (The new Hollywood Squares 1988), the Brad Pitt gallery would seem to be overflowing with pictures for the mass of fans whom adore his work.

In addition to all the still pictures available, a plethora of video feeds are available, featuring clips, trailers, and scenes from many Brad Pitt movies. There is no lack of ‘eye candy’ available for any one interested in viewing a Brad Pitt gallery.

Brad’s career and personal life are well documented in the thousands of picture databases and Brad Pitt gallery websites on the Internet. However, one place you may not find Brad is in the rare nude scenes shot for Playgirl magazine in 1997. A lawsuit filed by Brad Pitt resulted in the removal of many of the August 1997 issues, making these photographs a rare commodity.

Pictures sporting hundreds of different looks from a scruffy three-day-old beard growth to a sexy goatee or a clean shaven gentleman, the Brad Pitt gallery shows the many characters of Brad in his movies. However, the best part of Brad is in his cameo appearances in his off-screen moments with girlfriend Angelina Jolie and his 6 children.

Several Internet websites devote a virtually unlimited amount of space for Brad Pitt gallery pictures. Practically every important moment in Brad’s 20-plus year Hollywood career is in one or another of these Brad Pitt gallery fans sites. Suffice it to say if you want to see Brad at any moment in his career, it only takes a few clicks of a mouse to discover his picture somewhere on the Internet.

While many people browse the Internet to find a Brad Pitt gallery, it is remarkable to note that Brad is not one of those. In a recent interview at the 13th Annual Oscar roundtable discussion, Brad admitted he has never Googled himself, as he confessed he does not know much about computers. This may come as a disappoint to his many fans who promote him through their fan websites, blogs and Brad Pitt gallery sites, since he may never visit them and leave a charming comment.

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is by far the most popular and likable Hollywood star in the last decade. His recent nomination for an Oscar exhibits how well his portrayal of his characters on the big screen is received by his peers and the general public. However, Brad Pitt was not always a huge Hollywood favorite. His climb to fame has taken more than 20 years and has seen him involved in several serious relationships with his co-stars.

He supported himself by working minimum wage jobs and sharing expenses with fellow aspiring actors, including his much younger co-star (Juliette Lewis) in ‘Too Young to Die’. Brad Pitt saw his first major role in 1987 with ‘The Dark Side of the Sun’. This role paid him more than $1,500 a week for seven weeks work. Although this film could have launched Brad Pitt’s career, a tragic incident prevented it from being released until 10 years later, and well after Brad Pitt had already made his mark on the big screen.

Brad Pitt gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’ character in the 1991 film ‘Thelma and Louise’. That role put him on the big screen in front of millions of fans, which would later follow his career religiously.

The next big step in Brad Pitt’s career was his role in the 1995 film ‘Se7en’, co-starring Morgan Freeman and actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he would have a 2 year relationship and engagement. In 1997, Brad broke off his engagement to Paltrow and in 1998 after appearing on the TV series ‘Friends’, he started dating Jennifer Aniston, whom he married in 2000. Their 5-year marriage ended when Aniston filed for divorce in the spring of 2005.

Shortly after his divorce, Brad Pitt began dating his co-star in the film ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’, Angelina Jolie. Their relationship has likely been the most stable of all Brad’s past love connections, as Brad and Angelina have adopted 3 children together and are the parents of three more, most recently a set of twins born in Nice France in the summer of 2008.

Currently Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are residing in a palatial estate in Long Island while Jolie finishes filming of her next project. While both Brad and Angelina were nominated for Oscars this year, He will continue to act and produce movies for many years, as he is a hot commodity in Hollywood. However, according to Brad, he is very happy in his relationship with Angelina and his availability on the love market is pretty much closed.

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Brad Pitt Biography

William Bradley Pitt, eldest son of William and Jane Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Springfield Missouri, where Brad grew up, attending local schools and graduating from Kickapoo High in 1982.

The true Brad Pitt biography begins when Brad was attending the University of Missouri, majoring in Journalism. With just 2 credits shy of his degree, Brad made a bold decision to move to California and begin a career in acting. His early love of movies and television most likely inspired this decision as he longed to become a movie star.

That lifelong dream would eventually come true for Brad as in 1991 he received a big break in the film Thelma and Louise, which propelled him not only into stardom as an actor, but as a sex symbol as well. During his career, he has adorned the front cover of numerous entertainment magazines more than 150 times, and was voted sexiest man alive on more than one occasion.

In 1995, Brad was engaged to Gwyneth Paltrow and eventually broke it off in 1997. Shortly thereafter, he met actress Jennifer Aniston and the two married on July 29, 2000. In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced their formal separation, and subsequently they divorced. It was during the 2005 filming of Mr. And Mrs. Smith that Brad met his present love, Angelina Jolie, his co-star wife in that movie.

An official documentary on the Brad Pitt biography was featured on A&E’s Biography show in 2004. The documentary chronicles his life story up to the filming of his blockbuster ‘Troy’. The show may have been a little premature in featuring a Brad Pitt biography so early in his career, since the majority of his illustrious career and glamorous personal life happened after 2004.

Today, Brad and his girlfriend Angelina Jolie share their home with their 6 children, while both are still quite active in the film industry. A complete Brad Pitt biography will include his recent nomination for an Oscar, only the second such nomination he has received, at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, for his lead role in ‘The Curse of Benjamin Button’.

Although the Brad Pitt biography is nowhere complete as his future holds more than 11 projects in the works in producing and acting, it is sufficient to note that Brad Pitt is more than an icon of Hollywood, he is a superior actor, loving father and the dream idol of many fans worldwide.

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Where Did Brad Pitt Go To College

Many of his fans were not aware he went to a university and has often prompted the question, where did Brad Pitt go to college. For some unknown reason the answer to where did Brad Pitt go to college is lacking on many of his fan sites and in most of the biographies found on the Internet.

A question often asked on fan sites is where did Brad Pitt go to college. Surprisingly, many people are not aware that Brad Pitt attended the University of Missouri for three years before deciding to leave school to pursue an acting career. These answers to where did Brad Pitt go to college, is missing in most biographies found on the Internet. The biographies cover most of his personal life, yet often leave out the fact he went to college to pursue a career in Journalism and Advertising.

Some people mistakenly believe that Brad went to school for acting, as a recent post on an Internet forum that asked where did Brad Pitt go to college for acting. The answer is he did not attend a college for acting, however he did take acting lessons from renowned acting coach Roy London, about a year after leaving the University of Missouri in 1985. Although he did not have a formal education in acting from a college, working with Roy London did substantially help his career.

Brad has not talked much about his college days in the media, even though he spent three years at the University of Missouri, when asked in interviews, where did Brad Pitt go to college, he nonchalantly answers that he went to the University of Missouri. Not often does he elaborate on why he left school just two credits short of graduating and receiving his degree.

The choice to leave school certainly turned out to be a good decision, as he now commands as much as $20 million for a lead role in a film. This may very well be the reason where did Brad Pitt go to college? is not important to him or to his fans, especially since it is unlikely he would be making that much money in advertising or Journalism.

Now that the answer to where did Brad Pitt go to college is publicly available the next time you see the question posted on a forum; you can authoritatively answer, the University of Missouri from 1982 until 1985.

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Brad Pitt Movie List

Venerable Hollywood actor, Brad Pitt, has a lengthy and extensive list of credits in his acting career. The complete Brad Pitt movie list spans as early as his first serious role in 1988s The Dark Side of The Sun (released in 1997) up to his most recent work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The early Brad Pitt movie list contained two movies in which he had unaccredited roles, Less Than Zero (1987) as a preppie kid, and in No Man’s Land (1987) as a waiter. In the following two years, he took roles in several television series until 1989 when he had minor roles in Cutting Class as Dwight Ingalls and in Happy Together as Brian.

One big screen production that set Brad Pitt’s career in motion was Thelma and Louise (1991), in which Brad had a short part. The most memorable scene was when Brad’s partially nude character created a whole new fan base of followers. Over the course of the next several years, the Brad Pitt movie list would grow with starring roles and leads in another 9 movies until 1995’s Se7en and 12 Monkeys. Both of these movies showed Brad Pitt’s expansive character abilities and helped drive his career over the next five years until his blockbuster Oceans Eleven role.

Entering the new millenium, the Brad Pitt movie list would reveal more than a half dozen hits that would bring in over $100 million each worldwide in box office receipts. These exceptional movies included Troy, Ocean’s Twelve and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Presently the Brad Pitt movie list has two huge hits including Burn after Reading and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Lead Actor. Both of these films hit the big screen in late 2008, and prove that Brad is still a hot Hollywood commodity. It is reported that Brad commands at least $20 million dollars per movie, a far cry from his first big role which paid a little more than $10,000 some 20 years earlier.

Although Brad has admitted he does not know how many more movies he has in him, the future Brad Pitt movie list will include 11 projects that he currently has in the works. In some of these projects Brad’s capacity will be as a producer rather than an actor, nevertheless, his ‘brand name’ still has value in Hollywood circles, whether he has a starring role or as a producer.

The future Brad Pitt movie list includes Inglorious Bastards, filmed in Germany and to be released in late 2009, where Brad will play the part of Lt. Aldo Raine, and The Tree of Life, also with a potential release date in late 2009.

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Brad Pitt Films

Beginning in 1985, Brad Pitt had a dream to become an actor, this dream led him to leave behind his studies at the University of Missouri and pursue his real ambition in Hollywood. Arriving in LA, he began taking acting lessons from well-known acting coach Roy London, and eventually landed a minor part in ‘Another World’, a daytime soap opera. Soon this minor part would escalate the Brad Pitt films legacy over the next two decades.

In addition to appearing in numerous television series, sitcoms and dramas alike, there have been more than 35 Brad Pitt films on the big screen to complement his acting career. Many of the Brad Pitt films from his early career were not as well received as his most recent films. For example, ‘Johnny Suede’, ‘A River Runs Through It’ and ‘Kalifornia’ from the early 1990s. It was not until his portrayal of Louis de Pointe du Lac in ‘Interview with the Vampire’ that he started to receive recognition. This film and subsequently the next three Brad Pitt films gave him nominations or awards for his performances, including a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in ‘12 Monkeys’.

Brad Pitt films from 1996 until 2001’s ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ largely went unnoticed by the acting and performing community in regards to awards, nominations and box office receipts. It was the ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ role, as Rusty Ryan, that revived Brad’s career. Then in 2004, Brad took the lead role in Troy, portraying Achilles, for which he received the Teen Choice Award and a nomination for MTV’s Best Male Performance award, the worldwide box office totals from ‘Troy’ amounted to nearly $500 million. An astonishing figure for Brad Pitt and so far the highest grossing film for which he was the lead actor.

Brad Pitt films that did not receive an award or nomination between 2004 and 2008 was surprisingly, ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ and ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’. However both of these films grossed over $100 million dollars in box office receipts. The latest Brad Pitt film to receive a nomination is ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’, where Brad received a total of 5 nominations for Best Actor and Outstanding Performance by a Male actor from the Screen Actors Guild, the Academy Awards, BAFTA and the Golden Globes.

Upcoming Brad Pitt films include ‘The Tree of Life’ due to be released in late 2009 and ‘Inglourious Basterds’, a Quentin Tarantino production, where Brad plays an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee. Filming took place in Germany and France this past winter and is expected to be released in time for the Cannes Film Festival.

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Brad Pitt Bio

Born William Bradley Pitt, in Shawnee, Oklahoma on December 18, 1963 to Bill and Jane Pitt, Brad grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He attended Public schools, graduating from Kickapoo High in 1982 and later that year, he attended the University of Missouri, where he belonged to the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Although he was attending college to secure his degree in Journalism and advertising, he made a decision that would change the Brad Pitt bio forever. He decided to pack up his belongings and make a trip in his Datsun to California to explore a career in acting. That decision undoubtedly made the Brad Pitt Bio a much more interesting story to read then if he had remained on course for a career in journalism.

Arriving in Los Angeles in 1985, Brad worked various jobs and took acting lessons from renowned acting coach Roy London. It would be nearly two years before he got a break in television starring in a regular role on Dallas. In 1988 he received his first film role in The Dark Side of The Sun, for which he was paid a little more than $10,000 for the seven week role. The movie actually was not released until 1997.

His big break came in 1991 with a role in Thelma and Louise. Shortly thereafter, his career catapulted in the early 1990’s and culminates with his first Oscar nomination in 1996 for ‘Twelve Monkeys’. He subsequently has won more than 20 awards and received 41 nominations for his superior acting roles.

An official made for TV Brad Pitt Bio was featured on A&E network’s ‘Biography’ in 2004. This well-documented narrative depicts Brad’s life from birth up to the 2004 making of Troy. The Brad Pitt Bio touts him as an ‘international megastar’, following his illustrious career from his early days as a relative unknown in Another World and the popular ‘Dallas’ TV series to his climb to fame in the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy mega hits.

A Brad Pitt Bio would not be complete without including his most recent nomination for the 81st Academy Awards Best Lead Actor for his role as Benjamin Button in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (2008). Brad shares this honor along with his live in girlfriend and mother of his 6 children Angelina Jolie, as she was nominated Best Lead Actress for her role in ‘The Changeling’ (2008).

Future Brad Pitt Bio’s will undoubtedly include his work as an emerging Producer. Until recently, Brad Pitt has only had a minor role in producing films. However, he is either rumored to be working on or producing more than 9 films to be released over the next three years.

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Brad Pitt Movies

Brad Pitt, the veritable Hollywood hunk, started his career in film in the late 1980’s with a few unaccredited parts in low budget movies. All that changed in 1991 with the release of the popular Thelma and Louise crime spree movie in which Brad bares his bod, and becomes a hot commodity in Hollywood.

Although early in his career, he occasionally starred in various TV episodes (including the hit TV soap opera Another World) and films on the big screen, Brad Pitt movies have become a somewhat semi-annual event. In the last several years Brad has starred in or produced at least 2 movies per year.

Those movies have all fared well in the last 6 years, aside from ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’ (2007), (where Brad Pitt takes the lead role of Jesse James), Every Brad Pitt movie showed a worldwide gross of over $100 million.

From the release of Ocean’s Eleven in 2001, Brad Pitt movies suffered a dry spell until the 2005 release of Troy in which Brad played the lead role of Achilles. Even though the budget was nearly $200 million, Troy was able to produce a worldwide gross of over $495 million.

Of the more than 35 Brad Pitt movies, in the last two decades, the total worldwide gross was well over $4.5 Billion. The overall average gross for Brad Pitt movies is somewhere in the neighborhood of $54 million. That figure has certainly helped Brad Pitt command a higher price for starring on the big screen.

Steven Soderbergh has directed four Brad Pitt movies in the last decade, including the ‘Ocean’s’ trilogy, and ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind’.

The latest Brad Pitt movie, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ (released on Dec 25, 2008) has already grossed over $100 million and received 13 Oscar nominations. Another recent Brad Pitt movie that has prospered was the September 2008 release of ‘Burn after Reading’.

Brad has filled his schedule for the next 3 years with 6 projects in the works. These future Brad Pitt movies include The Odyssey (2012), Moneyball (2011), The Sparrow (2010), The Lost City of Z (2010), Inglorious Bastards (2009), and The Tree of Life (2009).

From non-credited and cameo parts in low budget movies to blockbuster hits worldwide, Brad Pitt has proven his inherent ability to not only star, but also produce some of the most popular big screen movies in the last decade.

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