PROSOPAGNOSIA - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRAD PITT
PROSOPAGNOSIA - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRAD PITT
In 2022, Pitt said that he had struggled for years to recognize people’s faces due to prosopagnosia (face blindness). In a 2013 interview, he said that his inability to recognize people’s faces had become so severe that he often wanted to stay home. Formally, however, Pitt has not been diagnosed with prosopagnosia.
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.
Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings, Douglas Mitchell (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969). Born into a conservative Christian household, he was raised as Southern Baptist and later "oscillate[d] between agnosticism and atheism." He later reconciled his belief in spirituality. Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country," having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes."
American actor known for his portrayal of unconventional characters and for his arresting Greek god like good looks. He is the most handsome actor of today in Hollywood.
He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2001, Pitt co-founded the production company, Plan B Entertainment which has produced various films including The Departed (2006), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), which have all received the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Pitt first gained recognition as a cowboy hitchhiker in the Ridley Scott road film Thelma & Louise (1991). His first leading roles in big-budget 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 David Fincher's crime thriller Seven (1995), the science fiction film 12 Monkeys (1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. He finished the century starring as Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999).
Pitt found his greatest commercial success starring in the Steven Soderbergh's crime heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001). He reprised his role in its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He cemented his leading man status starring in blockbusters such as the historical epic Troy (2004), the romantic crime film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), and the horror film World War Z (2013). Pitt also starred in the critically acclaimed films, Babel (2006), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Burn After Reading (2008), Inglorious Basterds (2009), The Tree of Life (2011), The Big Short (2015), and Ad Astra (2019). Pitt has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2019, Pitt won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
In 2001, Pitt co-founded his production company Plan B Entertainment with Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston. He produced The Departed (2006) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Moonlight (2016), all of which received the Academy Award for Best Picture. He also produced The Tree of Life (2011), Moneyball (2011), Selma (2014), The Big Short (2015) all of which received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry. For many years, he was cited as the world's most attractive man by various media outlets, and his personal life is the subject of wide publicity. He is divorced from actresses Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. Pitt has six children with Jolie, three of whom were adopted internationally.
Angelina Jolie with Brad Pitt
Pitt won an Academy Award for his performance in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019).
Pitt grew up in Springfield, Missouri, and attended (1983–87) the University of Missouri before dropping out just short of graduation to move to California and pursue an acting career.
Pitt deliberately played against type as Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer in Seven Years in Tibet (1997), an Irish Republican Army terrorist in The Devil’s Own (1997), a modern-day personification of death in Meet Joe Black (1998), and an underground boxer in Fight Club (1999). In 2000 Pitt married actress Jennifer Aniston. The following year he starred in Ocean’s Eleven, a comedy caper about con artists. The film was a major success and led to the sequels Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). In 2004 Pitt portrayed the Greek warrior Achilles in Troy.
The action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) paired Pitt with actress Angelina Jolie, with whom he became romantically involved. Pitt continued to lend his talents to films covering a wide range of subject matter, including Babel (2006), a film that traces the intersecting lives of characters from divergent backgrounds, and the period western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). Pitt further demonstrated his versatility in 2008, portraying a dim-witted would-be blackmailer in the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading and a man who ages backward in the poignant fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His chameleonic turn in the latter film earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor.
I particularly liked his film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" about reverse ageing.
Also, the stunt double of Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" which won him an Oscar Award.
Pitt’s involvement with Jolie and his 2005 divorce from Aniston were intensely scrutinized by the tabloid press. In 2006 Pitt adopted Jolie’s two children, Maddox and Zahara, whom she had adopted from Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively. The couple had their first biological child, Shiloh, in May 2006. The next year they adopted a boy, Pax, from Vietnam, and in 2008 they added biological twins, Knox and Vivienne, to their family. Pitt and Jolie married in 2014, but two years later Jolie filed for divorce.
The couple often used their celebrity status as a platform for speaking out on behalf of a number of humanitarian causes. Pitt co-founded and was actively involved in Not on Our Watch, a campaign that directed resources to developing countries in crisis, notably the Sudanese province of Darfur. In 2006 he established Make It Right, a multi-million-dollar project to construct environmentally friendly homes in New Orleans for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Brad Pitt's upcoming movies are Bullet Train, Babylon and She said.
Pitt's Plan B will release two flashy films this year: Andrew Dominik's “Blonde,” a Marilyn Monroe biopic with a buzzy teaser trailer starring Ana De Armas, and an adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel “Women Talking,” which stars Frances McDormand and Rooney Mara.
We expect more and more good films from his production house and wish the versatile career booster movies from him.
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