Brad Pitt

His spectacular popular hook was evident when a brief but intense appearance at a roadside motel in Thelma and Louise “ipso facto” provided him with a passport to fame. Undoubtedly it was then his daring look of seductive nerve that enchanted the audience. However, aware of that innate ability to make women’s knees tremble, Brad Pitthe has never been fooled by the narcissistic mirage of his image. It can even be said that she has frequented more than anyone a strange desire to get into the skin of ragged, dirty and repellent guys at first sight. In this way, she has managed to overcome his physical appearance and, therefore, has ended up demonstrating to his fervent fans that under his postmodern ephebe makeup hides an intelligent guy who overflows with interpretive audacity .

William Bradley Pitt  was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, although he grew up in Springfield (Missouri). He entered university to study journalism and advertising, but with two years left to graduate he realized that what he really wanted was to be an actor. In 1986 he went to Los Angeles, where he worked as a waiter, driver or security guard to pay for acting classes.

He began by playing miserable roles in television series ( Dallas ) and in films with little pedigree, such as Golpe al sueño americano (1987) or Together but not scrambled (1990). But in 1991 he knew how to take advantage of the 15 minutes that Ridley Scott gave him in a “road movie” entitled Thelma and Louise . The success of the film made him a sex symbol overnight and offers began to pour in. Two years later he worked for Robert Redford in the bucolic The river of life and the paroxysm of the followers of him reached heaven with Legends of passion (1994), whose role of Tristan fit him like a glove on one hand.

However, from its beginnings Brad Pitt fled from typecasting and tried to make less sweet movies: Kalifornia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994). With his extraordinary role as the crazy Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys (1995) he even earned an Oscar nomination. That same year he had the biggest success of his career when he played the spirited but inexperienced detective David Mills in David Fincher ‘s creepy Seven . Notable films followed, albeit with little echo at the box office: Sleepers (1996), The Devil’s Shadow (1997), Seven Years in Tibet (1997).

However, starting in 1999, his star rose again thanks to the hand of the gloomy Fincher ( Fight Club ) and his metamorphosed and hilarious gypsy incarnation in Snatch. Pigs and Diamonds (2000), perhaps his best role in front of the camera. His next films were very well received – The Mexican , Ocean’s Eleven , Spy Game – and since then he has not stopped stardom. It was the hairy Achilles in Troy (2004), the adaptation of the Iliad directed by Wolfgang Petersen . The gods were on his side, although he was fantastically accompanied by an opponent in the stature of Eric Bana .

It was the following year that Brad Pitt ‘s life changed completely. He starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie . They played a couple of spies who were led to kill. In reality, it should not have been like that, because very soon Brad Pitt divorced his wife Jennifer Aniston from him to share his life with Angelina. Since then their life as a couple seems idyllic, surrounded by adopted children, and their charitable actions around the world have as much or more media pull than the movies they make.

But Brad Pitt continues to make movies, and good ones. Look closely at who is behind the camera so you don’t miss the shot. He starred in one of the harsh stories of the drama Babel (2006), a polyhedral film by Alejandro González Iñárritu . And as in that film he has continued to choose the roles conscientiously. He was the legendary bandit Jesse James in the dry and violent western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), by Andrew Dominik , and the following year he went on to shoot with the Coen brothers the black comedy Burn After Reading . He earned his second Oscar nomination from his beloved From him David Fincher , who adapted a story fromFrancis Scott Fitzgerald in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). In a very complete role, Pitt played the protagonist at different ages of his life. Then it was the turn of Quentin Tarantino , the director with whom he worked on the genuine Inglourious Basterds (2009).

The next decade came for Pitt with two memorable roles. First, he worked with the prestigious and elusive director Terrence Malick , whose metaphysical cosmogony in The Tree of Life left the world totally absorbed and divided in opinion. Pitt then earned his third Oscar nomination, thanks to the sports drama Moneyball , about the American baseball league. Although the film was nominated for 6 Oscars, it finally did not take any. In 2012 he released a violent and difficult-to-classify film, Kill Them Softly , in which he again worked for Andrew Dominik . He is eagerly awaited in World War Z , which has been directed by Marc Forster .and that the terrifying universe of zombies explodes.