Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt born December 18 1963 is an American actor and film producer He is the recipient of various accolades including an Academy Award a British Academy Film Award and two Golden Globe Awards for his acting in addition to a second Academy Award a second British Academy Film Award a third Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award as a producer under his production company Plan B Entertainment Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the road film Thelma Louise 1991 His first leading roles in bigbudget 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 the crime thriller Seven 1995 and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys 1995 the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination Pitt starred in Fight Club 1999 and the heist film Oceans Eleven 2001 as well as its sequels Oceans Twelve 2004 and Oceans Thirteen 2007 His greatest commercial successes have been Oceans Eleven 2001 Troy 2004 Mr Mrs Smith 2005 World War Z 2013 and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019 for which he won a second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Pitts other Academy Award nominated performances were in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 and Moneyball 2011 He produced The Departed 2006 and 12 Years a Slave 2013 both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and also The Tree of Life 2011 Moneyball 2011 and The Big Short 2015 all of which were nominated for Best Picture Pitt is the second actor to have won Academy Awards for both Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture In a court filing in Los Angeles filed as part of a legal battle over a winery the prominent Hollywood actors once owned together lawyers for Ms Jolie stated that negotiations to sell her share of the business to Mr Pitt had broken down over his demand that she sign a nondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitts physical and emotional abuse of her and their children Her filing goes on to describe an extended physical and verbal outburst in September 2016 as Mr Pitt Ms Jolie and their six children flew from France to California Pitt choked one of the children and struck another in the face and grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her the filing states adding that at one point he poured beer on Jolie at another he poured beer and red wine on the children