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Brad Pitt Career and Short Biography: Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to Southern Baptist parents William A. Pitt and Jane Etta Hillhouse. The Pitt family is mainly of English [citation needed] and Irish descent. He and his two siblings, Doug Pitt and Julie Neal Pitt, grew up in Springfield, Missouri, where the family moved soon after his birth. Pitt’s parents and siblings still live in Springfield, attending James River Assembly in Ozark, Missouri.

William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (December 18, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. In recent years, he has dominated the world media mainly for his relationships to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, and his adoption of the the latter’s children.

At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government, and school musicals. He attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri - Columbia where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was two credits shy of graduating with a journalism degree in 1982 when he left to try his luck in Hollywood.

His choice of career was something of a surprise to those around him. He’d acted in several fraternity shows, but never really revealed a desire to act professionally. Pitt seemed to show more promise in music. But then suddenly, with no real experience behind him, he simply left in 1986 in his Datsun (known as Runaround Sue) and, with just $325 in his pocket, took off for California. “In my head”, he later said “I was done with college. I was on to the next thing”.

Arriving in Hollywood, Pitt knew a girl whose father owned a house there but was away on business, which was occupied only by a housekeeper, and here he stayed for a month, rent free. Having already made several friends, he then moved into a flat in North Hollywood, along with eight other young men. They had no furniture, just a TV, a toaster oven and a stereo system. There were no beds and they were forced to all sleep on the floor.

Pitt, for money picked up odd jobs here and there and at one point, he had a bet with a friend as to who could score the most humiliating job. Brad won easily, dressing up as a giant chicken for El Pollo Loco, standing out on the corner of Sunset Boulevard in 100 degree heat. Aside from this, he spent time selling cigarettes, delivering fridges, and, bizarrely, assisting a soap opera writer. He also worked driving strippers around in a limousine.