Brad Pitt has played many different roles in his career, but some of the parts he's excelled in the most have been the ones which called upon him to play a southern gentleman. Perhaps that's because he still carries a little bit of Shawnee, Oklahoma in his soul, even though he wasn't there for long. Most of his childhood was spent in Missouri.
Anybody who needs telling the Brad Pitt story must not have been to the cinema at any point in the past three decades. He redefined what it meant to be cool in 'Fight Club,' became the envy of half the men in the world when he married Angelina Jolie, acted Tom Cruise off the screen in 'Interview with The Vampire,' and more recently has become a favorite of legendary director Quentin Tarantino. A measure of his success is that his career wasn't damaged by the lamentably awful zombie movie 'World War Z.'