Brad Pitt Net Worth

Net Worth:$300 Million
Gender:Male
Height:1.81cm
Profession:Actor
Nationality:American

What is Brad Pitt’s Net Worth?

Brad Pitt is an American actor who has a whopping estimated net worth of $300 Million. Brad Pitt is a very popular name in Hollywood scenes.

Early Life

Brad  Pitt was born on 18th December 1963 in Oklahoma. His parents were Jane and William Pitt; his father owned a trucking company while his mother was a school counselor. As a youngster, his family moved from Oklahoma to Missouri where he was raised as a conservative Christian.

Brad Pitt attended high school at Kickapoo High School, he participated in a number of school activities. He was a member of the Golf, Swim, and tennis teams. He was also a member of the Forensics and Key Clubs where he participated in school debates and Musicals. After graduation from high school, Brad Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri where he majored in Journalism focusing mainly on advertising.  Close to time for graduation, he was said to have felt unsettled so he left the city and went to pursue a career in acting.

Brad traveled to Los Angeles and started taking acting lessons, he also described the film as a portal into a different world. He named Mickey Rourke, Gary Oldman, and Sean Penn as his role models.

Career

Brad Pitt has been featured in so many films, anyone who has an affinity for movies as this writer does, will have seen a lot of movies with Brad Pitt in it. As a struggling young actor in Los Angeles, he took acting lessons from Roy London, an acting coach. His earliest works are “No Way Out, No man’s Land(1987), and Less Than Zero (1987) which were uncredited.

He was in sitcoms like Trial and Error, Growing Pains, and Another World. Brad Pitt clinched his first lead role in the film “The Dark Side of the Sun” (1988) though the movie was not released until 1997.

He was featured in several other films in subsequent years; He was in Too Young To Die, Glory Days, The Image, and Across The Tracks. Brad Pitt became more famous when he starred in “Thelma & Louise”

In 1993 Brad Pitt played the role of a serial killer in the film Kalifornia, he was also featured in True Romance as a drug addict. In the same year, he won the ShoWest Award for Male Star of Tomorrow.

Rise to Fame

Brad Pitt was cast alongside Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, and Kirstin Dunst in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. He received two MTV Movie Awards for his role in the film in 1995. The following year, Brad starred in Legends of the Fall, a novel adaptation by Jim Harrison, he won his first Golden Globe award for best actor for his role in the film.

Brad was cast alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman in the film cast, he played a detective in this film. He won a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy award for best supporting actor for his role in 12 Monkeys.

Brad Pitt went on to star in several films, which were mostly a success at the box office. In 2004, he starred as Achilles in Troy, and Rusty Ryan in Ocean’s Twelve these films were major projects for Brad.

In 2005, Brad alongside Angelina Jolie starred in the action film Mr & Mrs. Smith, the media applauded Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for the chemistry they exuded in the film. The film was the biggest hit of 2005. He starred in Babel in 2006, and the film received a total of seven Academy and Golden Globe Awards, Brad also received a nomination for best-supporting actor.

 Fame

Pitt’s next lead role came in 2009 with the film Inglorious Basterds, the film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide, and the views were generally positive.

Together with his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, Plan B studios was founded. Brad Pitt produced his first film 12 years a slave, the film was nominated for nine awards and won three of them.

Pitt starred alongside the famous, Leonardo Di Caprio as a stunt double in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019. He received several awards for this film; The Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, BAFTA Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Golden Globe Awards.

Brad Pitt was nominated PrimeTime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2020 after he portrayed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday Night Live. 

Brad Pitt delved into the recording business in 2019 in collaboration with Damien Quintard. He is set to revive the currently inactive Miraval Studios, this studio has produced iconic acts like Sade, Muse, and others.

In 2022, Brad Pitt starred in Bullet Train, he also signed a film deal with Apple to create a racing film Formula One, and he is going to earn $30 million.

Philanthropy and Humanitarianism

During the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections, Brad Pitt visited the University of Missouri to encourage students to vote for John Kerry. He is a supporter of One Campaign which is aimed at fighting AIDS and poverty in third-world countries.

He and his ex-wife Angelina Jolie flew to Haiti to visit Yele Haiti founded by Wyclef Jean. Brad Pitt and his wife also donated $1 million. Brad Pitt spearheaded a low-cost housing initiative to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In May 2007, Pitt and Jolie donated $1 million to victims affected by the crisis in Sudan and Chad. Jolie-Pitt Foundation was founded in 2006, the foundation has seen a lot of humanitarian causes in third-world countries.

The Jolie-Pitt Foundation has made donations summing up to millions to Doctors Without Borders, Global Actions for Children, and the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

Jolie-Pitt Foundation donated a million dollars to the U.N refugee agency, this money was donated to help Pakistanis who have been displaced by war. The foundation donated 1 million dollars to Doctors without borders to help victims of the Haiti Earthquake in 2010.

He has spearheaded several other charitable causes with his now ex-wife, including support to legalize same-sex marriages.

Personal Life

Brad Pitt in his early years as an actor was romantically involved with famous actors like Jill Schoelen, Robin Givens, Juliette Lewis and etc. In 1998, he met Jennifer Aniston whom he later married in Malibu, and the marriage lasted about five years, after which they divorced.

He met Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr & Mrs. Smith, he was rumored to have been involved with Angelina Jolie even before his divorce from Jennifer Aniston was finalized. The couple later came out to clear the air that they fell in love on set and not before.

In 2006, Jolie announced that she was carrying Brad’s child and finally confirmed their relationship in public. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got married in 2014 at Chateau Miraval, France in a private ceremony.

In 2016 Angelina Jolie filed for a divorce stating that the reason for their divorce was” irreconcilable differences”. Brad has three biological children with Angelina Jolie and also three adopted children. He is currently dating a jewelry designer, Ines de Ramon who is almost 30 years younger.

Brad Pitt admitted to battling drinking issues in 2016 which led him to join the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Salaries & Net Worth

Brad Pitt earlier in his career earned as low as $6000 for roles. His first big earning was in Kalifornia, he was paid $500,000. He was paid $4 million for Seven, $10 million for Sleepers, and also $10 million for Seven Years in Tibet.

For Mr. & Mrs. Smith, he earned a cool $20 million, he also earned about $18 million for his roles in Troy, Meet Joe Black, Spy Game, and Fight Club. 

He has been known to lower his rates in order to appear in films he feels strongly about. Brad was paid $10 million to star in Ocean’s Eleven but he ended up earning up to $30 million when the movie was done. He recently signed a film deal with Apple which would earn him about $30 Million.

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