【明報專訊】Brad Pitt was born on 18 December 1963 in Oklahoma (奧克拉荷馬州), the US. Pitt originally aspired (渴望) to be an advertising art director, studying journalism at the University of Missouri (密蘇里大學). However, the young college student had other quiet aspirations, the product of a childhood love of movies, which finally seemed tangible (明確) in his last semester at university when he realised, "I can leave." On a whim (一時興致), Pitt dropped out of college and headed west to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles, just two credits shy of a college degree.
Pitt made his big screen debut in 1989's horror/slasher (血腥恐怖片) film Cutting Class (《下課後》), and played a teen track star in Sandy Tung's Across the Tracks (《跑出人生路》), but it was a well-timed bit part in a controversial Hollywood film that pushed him into the glare of instant stardom (星途).
A two-time winner of People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" title (1995 and 2000), Pitt began dating Jennifer Aniston, star of the TV sitcom Friends, in 1998. Pitt and Aniston were married on 29 July 2000 in California. The couple announced their separation in January 2005 and divorced in October that year.
Soon after their separation, Pitt began dating actress Angelina Jolie. In May 2006, the couple had a baby girl. They also have three adopted children. In July 2008 Pitt and Angelina Jolie had twins. The family currently splits their time between Los Angeles and New Orleans.
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