Brad Pitt Height, Weight, Age, Biography, Wife & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Brad Pitt

• Has Brad Pitt ever smoked? Yes, he did smoke but he quit while filming “Troy”.

• Brad Pitt indeed consumes alcohol.

• During his childhood, his aspiration was to become a rockstar rather than pursuing a career as an actor.

• In 6th grade, he initiated his smoking habit.

• Although he was born in Oklahoma, he was raised in Springfield, Missouri, a place he fondly referred to as “Mark Twain Country”.

• He won the title of the best dressed student in his school in 1982.

• Upon graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of Missouri. However, he abruptly departed from the institution just two weeks shy of completing his degree, opting instead to pursue a career in films in Los Angeles.

• He engaged in acting lessons and pursued various odd jobs while residing in Los Angeles.

• His initial acting mentor in Los Angeles was Roy London.

• He started his career at “el Pollo Loco,” a popular Mexican restaurant chain, where his duties involved donning a chicken costume.

• China banned Brad Pitt from entering the country due to his involvement in the 1997 film “Seven Years in Tibet”.

• The script incorporated his arm injury after he broke it during the filming of “Seven”.

• In 1995, the movie “12 Monkeys” marked Brad Pitt’s first Oscar nomination.

• In the 2004 US Presidential Election, he backed John Kerry.

• He actively supports the “One Campaign”, an organization dedicated to addressing poverty and AIDS in the developing world.

• He took on the role of narrator for the public television series “Rx for Survival” in 2005, wherein current global health issues were thoroughly explored and discussed.

• In September 2006, Brad and Jolie created the “Jolie-Pitt Foundation”, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting humanitarian causes globally.

• During an interview in 2006, he expressed his intention to tie the knot solely when the country legalizes same-sex marriage.

• In 2006, Jolie made a formal request to a Judge in California to modify the surnames of the children from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt. Fortunately, her request was approved.

• He was bestowed with the title “Sexist Man Alive” by People’s in 1995, and he successfully reclaimed the honor in 2000.

• The couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s relationship was famously dubbed “Brangelina fever” by the media.

• The media dubbed the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter “Shiloh” in Namibia as a highly anticipated event, often likened to the arrival of Jesus Christ.

• He appeared in a Heineken commercial back in 2005.

• Brad Pitt was awarded an Oscar in 2013 for his role as a producer in the film “12 Years a Slave”.