Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer.  The son of Jane Etta, a high school counsel or, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company owner, Brad was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.  Along with his siblings Doug and Julie Neal, he grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. He was raised in a conservative Southern Baptist home throughout his childhood. 

Brad attended Kickapoo High School where he was a member of the golf, tennis and swimming teams. In addition, he participated in the school's Key and Forensics clubs, school debates, and musicals. Following his graduation from high school, he enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism, with a focus on advertising. As a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, he acted in several fraternity shows.  In 1985, two weeks prior to earning his degree, Brad left the university and moved to Los Angeles in order to take acting lessons.  When asked why he left the university, he responded with the following: "I had this sinking feeling as graduation approached. I saw my friends getting jobs. I wasn't ready to settle down. I loved films. They were a portal into different worlds for me, and Missouri wasn't where movies were made. Then it hit me: If they didn't come to me, I'd go to them."

Brad began his acting career with television guest appearances which included a role on the CBS soap opera Dallas in 1987; later gaining recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis's character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995, he gave critically-acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film Twelve Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later in 1999, Brad starred in the cult hit Fight Club. Subsequently in 2001, he starred in the major international hit Ocean's Eleven and its sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He has had his biggest commercial successes with Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Brad received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance in the title role in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  He has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one.

Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. As of 2010, he lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. He and Jolie have three adopted children, Maddox, Zahara, and Pax, and have also given birth to three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.  

Brad owns a production company named Plan B Entertainment, which produced the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Departed, among other films. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally. 

In an October 2007 interview, Brad revealed that he is not a Christian nor does he believe in an afterlife. "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible."  In July 2009, he said in an interview that he did not believe in God, and that he was "probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic."

Please pray for Brad.  Pray that God will remind him of all the Scripture he was taught as a child and that God's Spirit will use that and the circumstances in Brad's life to draw him to the foot of the cross and true salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

--Heidi