100px|Brad Pitt at the 2008 premier of Burn After Reading
Brad Pitt (born 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. Described as one of the world's most attractive men, Pitt's 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 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty Ryan in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has generated wide publicity. (more...) Recently featured: The Green Child – Elvis Presley – The Entombment Archive – By email – More featured articles... Read the rest of this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1475: Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great defeated an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia, near Vaslui in present-day Romania. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vaslui> 1901: The first great gusher of the Texas Oil Boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, US. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindletop> 1927: The science fiction film Metropolis, which is inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, was released in Germany. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29> 1929: The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin> 2003: After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have forced confessions from more than 200 suspects, Governor of Illinois George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four more. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: open book (n): 1. Something of which salient aspects are obvious or easily interpreted. 2. A person who through naivete responds candidly to questions or openly displays their emotions or intentions <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/open_book> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. --John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton%2C_1st_Baron_Acton> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
