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Early life
William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in
Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor.
[4] The family soon moved to
Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his younger siblings,
Douglas Mitchell (born 1966) and Julie Neal (born 1969).
[5] Born into a conservative Christian household,
[6][7] he was raised as
Southern Baptist and later "oscillate[d] between
agnosticism and
atheism."
[8] He later reconciled his belief in spirituality.
[9] Pitt has described Springfield as "
Mark Twain country,
Jesse James country," having grown up with "a lot of hills, a lot of lakes."
[10]
Pitt attended
Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams.
[11] He participated in the school's
Key and
Forensics clubs, in school debates, and in musicals.
[12] Following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the
University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising.
[13] As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down. He loved films—"a portal into different worlds for me"—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made.
[14][15] Two weeks short of completing the coursework for a degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs.
[14] He has named
Gary Oldman,
Sean Penn, and
Mickey Rourke as his early acting heroes.
[16]
Note: - Middle class parents. Dad owned a business. Mom was educated. Went to university.
Most white kids from that background would do ok.