Born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Brad Pitt is a citizen of the United States whose career has unfolded primarily in English-language film and television. His education took him through Kickapoo High School and then to the University of Missouri, after which he moved into the screen industries and built a professional life that spans performance, production, and direction.

Pitt has worked across a range of roles on both sides of the camera, serving as a film actor, television actor, voice actor, and model, while also taking on responsibilities as a film producer, television producer, executive producer, and film director. The breadth of these credits marks a career that has not remained confined to any single function within the industry. His work as a performer brought recognition from several major award bodies: he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. On the production side, he received an Academy Award for Best Picture. The Venice Film Festival honored his screen work with the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, one of that festival's most distinguished prizes for performance.

Beyond the formal awards circuit, Pitt was named to the Time 100, the annual list compiled by Time magazine recognizing figures judged to be among the year's most influential. His inclusion on that list reflects the reach his professional activities have had outside the usual trade and awards season contexts.

His authorized record in the Library of Congress Name Authority File is catalogued as "Pitt, Brad, 1963-," a designation that identifies him as a living subject and marks his professional record as ongoing. That cataloguing entry, modest and precise in the way such records tend to be, serves as a useful anchor for a career that has accumulated credits across film, television, and production over several decades.