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Milestones
- 2004: Reunited with the original cast for "Ocean's Twelve" directed by Steven Soderbergh
- 2004: Portrayed fated warrior Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy"
- 2003: Voiced the title character in the animation feature "Sinbad"
- 2002: Cast as the lead in the sci-fi film "The Fountain" directed by Darren Aronofsky; film fell through
- 2001: Teamed with Robert Redford in "The Spy Game", playing the protege of a retiring CIA agent
- 2001: Co-starred with Julia Roberts in "The Mexican", playing a mafia bagman sent to retrieve the titular object, an antique pistol that supposedly carried a curse
- 2001: Had featured role in the ensemble of "Ocean's Eleven" which included Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Matt Damon
- 2000: Portrayed an itinerant Irish gypsy bare knuckles boxer in "Snatch", written and directed by Guy Ritchie
- 1999: Co-starred with Edward Norton in "Fight Club"
- 1998: Reteamed with Anthony Hopkins for "Meet Joe Black", a loose remake of "Death Takes a Holiday"
- 1997: Engendered controversy for making negative comments about "The Devil's Own", in which he played an Irish revolutionary opposite Harrison Ford as an NYC cop
- 1997: Successfully sued Playgirl magazine to stop distribution after it published unauthorized nude photographs of Pitt and then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow
- 1997: Film "Seven Years in Tibet" was subject of controversy when it was disclosed that the character Pitt played, Heinrich Harrer, had ties to the Nazis
- 1995: Co-starred with Morgan Freeman as detectives tracking a serial killer in "Seven"
- 1995: Earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a mental patient in "12 Monkeys"
- 1995: In January dubbed "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine
- 1994: Co-starred with Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire", playing Louis, the aristocratic Southerner made turned reluctant bloodsucker
- 1994: First worked with Anthony Hopkins playing one of his sons in "Legends of the Fall"
- 1993: Played featured role in "True Romance"
- 1992: Had major role in "A River Runs Through It", directed by Robert Redford
- 1991: Cast in breakthrough role of drifter J D in "Thelma & Louise" after Billy Baldwin bowed out to star in "Backdraft"
- 1991: Debut as a feature lead, "Johnny Suede", about an aspiring pop singer
- 1990: Appeared in the regular role of Walker Lovejoy, a high school graduate working as a reporter, in the short-lived Fox drama "Glory Days"
- 1990: Co-starred with Juliette Lewis in the fact-based NBC TV-movie "Too Young to Die?" , about a teenage girl put on trial for murder
- 1989: Made second guest appearance on "Growing Pains", playing a different character
- 1989: Feature acting debut, "Cutting Class"
- 1988: TV-movie debut, "A Stoning in Fulham County"
- 1987: Did extra work in the film "Less Than Zero"
- 1987: Had small role on the NBC soap opera "Another World"
- 1987: Cast as the boyfriend of Jenna Wade Ewing's daughter in three episodes of the CBS primetime soap "Dallas"
- 1987: Primetime TV debut in a guest role in an episode of the ABC sitcom "Growing Pains"
- 1986: Moved to Los Angeles claiming to his parents that he was attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
- Signed on to spoof himself in the comedy "Chad Schmidt" he'll play both himself and the look-alike title character, a frustrated wannabe actor (lensed 2005)
- Worked at odd jobs including as a chaffeur to Strip-O-Gram strippers, delivering refrigerators to college students and dressing up in a chicken costume outside the El Pollo Loco restaurant
- Grew up in Springfield, Missouri
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