Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received three Academy Award and five Golden Globe nominations, winning one. Pitt supports the ONE Campaign, an organization aimed at combating AIDS and poverty in the developing world. He is also a co-founder of Not On Our Watch, an organization focused on raising global awareness and resources to stop and prevent genocides such as that in Darfur. Pitt has a sustained interest in architecture. He founded the Make It Right Foundation in 2006, organizing housing professionals in New Orleans to finance and construct 150 sustainable, affordable new houses in New Orleans's Ninth Ward following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The project involves 13 architectural firms and the environmental organization Global Green USA, with several of the firms, including William McDonough + Partners, donating their services. The first six homes were completed in October 2008, and in September 2009 Pitt received an award in recognition of the project from the U.S. Green Building Council, a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in how buildings are designed, built and operated. Pitt met with U.S. President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in March 2009 to promote his concept of green housing as a national model and to discuss federal funding possibilities. In September 2006, Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie established the Jolie-Pitt Foundation to aid humanitarian causes around the world. They have made donations to Global Action for Children, Doctors Without Borders, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the U.N. refugee agency. May 2021, Pitt was awarded joint custody of their minor children, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and Vivienne and Knox, 13. They are also parents to Maddox, 20.