Brad Pitt Research Paper

William Bradley Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is a very well known American actor and producer.“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” (Brad Pitt).William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is a very well-known American actor and producer.As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the world's most attractive man, by various media outlets. Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He was the first child to mom Jane Etta who was a school counsellor, and William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company. The family didn't stay in Oklahoma very

The sex scene between Pitt and Davis sizzled and exalted Pitt into the spotlight and was the event that made him a sex symbol and his pretty face would bring him several roles in the next decade. In 1995, Pitt starred alongside Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in the crime thriller Se7en, playing a detective on the trail of a serial killer. Pitt called it a great movie and declared the part would expand his acting horizons.(6) That same year Pitt starred as a mental patient in a thriller called Twelve Monkeys ,which ended up giving him a nomination and a win for best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for his performance. During the summer of 1988 Pitt acted in his first movie role in “The Dark Side of the Sun,” about a boy taken by his family to Yugoslavia to find a cure for a rare disease. Unfortunately Civil war broke out during the filming of it and most of the footage from the film was lost, but it was soon found in 1996 and released in 1998. Pitt's next few roles secured his place as a Hollywood staple. In 1999, after a brief hiatus from the Hollywood hot list, Pitt re-teamed with Se7en director David Fincher to make Fight Club. Pitt had wanted to move on from the pretty boy roles and Fight Club displayed an unglamorous Pitt in a disturbing role as leader and recruiter of Fight Club an