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Brad Pitt
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December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, OK
Biography:With looks that have inspired countless People magazine covers, Internet shrines, and paparazzi blitzkreigs, "Brad Pitt" is an actor whose very name inspires drooling platitudes, more about male beauty than about acting. Following his breakthrough as the wickedly charming drifter who seduces "Geena Davis" and then robs her blind in "Thelma & Louise" (1991), Pitt became one of Hollywood's hottest properties and spent most of the 1990s being lauded as everything from "Robert Redford"'s heir apparent to the Sexiest Man Alive.

Pitt's ascension to his celluloid throne was a long and sometimes frustrating one, however. The son of a trucking company manager, Pitt was born December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, OK. Raised in Missouri as the oldest of three children, and brought up in a strict Baptist household, Pitt enrolled at the University of Missouri, following high school graduation, studying journalism and... Full Biography

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