Brad Pitt
Born: 18 December 1963
Birthplace: Shawnee, Oklahoma
Best Known As: Hunky star of Fight Club
Name at birth: William Bradley Pitt
Sporting the golden-boy glow of Robert Redford and the maxillofacial structure of Kirk Douglas, Pitt became one of the great movie heartthrobs in the 1990s. Pitt grew up in Missouri and studied journalism in college before dropping out to become an actor. He got his big break as the sexy scoundrel hitchhiker in the 1991 movie Thelma and Louise (with Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon), a small role that nonetheless catapulted him to leading man status. Known as a movie star who doesn't always take the starring role, Pitt has co-starred with Tom Cruise in Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire (1994), with Bruce Willis in Twelve Monkeys (1995) and with Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (1997). His other films include: Se7en (1995, with Morgan Freeman), Fight Club (1999, with Edward Norton) and Spy Game (2001, with Robert Redford); the ensemble films Snatch (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001, with George Clooney); and the big-budget star vehicles Troy (2004, with Eric Bana) and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005, opposite Angelina Jolie).
Once engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt married actress Jennifer Aniston in 2000. The split in January of 2005, amid rumors that Pitt had a romantic relationship with Angelina Jolie, his co-star from Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
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Ben Stiller
Born: 30 November 1965
Birthplace: New York, New York
Best Known As: Star of There's Something About Mary and Zoolander
The son of the New York comedy team Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, Ben Stiller went from making short comedy films in the early 1990s to lead roles in box office hits such as There's Something About Mary (1998) and Meet the Parents (2000, opposite Robert DeNiro). Stiller started out in the movies in a bit part in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1988). He had a short-lived stint on MTV in 1990, and in 1992 landed his own comedy sketch show on the Fox network. A critical success, the show was nonetheless cancelled after 12 episodes. Stiller directed Reality Bites in 1994 (with Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke), and that film's success led to directing Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy (1996). Stiller has appeared in Permanent Midnight (1998) and Mystery Men (1999), and starred in and directed Zoolander (2001, with frequent co-star Owen Wilson).
For Mystery Men Stiller reunited with former TV co-star and writing partner Janeane Garofalo (the film also featured Hank Azaria and Paul Reubens)... Stiller is married to actress Christine Taylor, who played Marcia in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).
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Brooke Shields
Born May 31, 1965
Despite her efforts to be taken seriously as an actress, Brooke Shields has been unable to escape her youth, during which time she found herself in the precarious position of simultaneously being idolized as a late-'70s icon of adolescent wholesome virginal innocence and being constantly photographed in manners verging on the mildly pornographic. Shields' early career was managed and pushed by her mother, Teri Shields, a small-time actress who placed her daughter in front of the camera before she was even one. As the Ivory Snow baby, Shields was once hailed as the "most beautiful baby in America." After spending many years hawking products, she was in such demand that her mother started marketing her under the logo "Brooke Shields Co." Shields made her feature film debut in Alice Sweet Alice (1976), but did not become a bona fide star until French director Louis Malle cast her as a 12-year-old New Orleans prostitute who becomes the romantic obsession of a much older painter in Pretty Baby (1978). The film was released amidst great controversy because of the scenes in which Shields (or a body double representing her) appeared nude. But while she did participate in some adult scenes, those moments were handled with taste and discretion by Malle and his cinematographer, Sven Nyquist, and the general consensus was that Shields was not exploited in the film. Thus far, her acting in Pretty Baby remains Shields' best. Through her teens, Shields was among the world's top fashion models and her countenance was everywhere. Controversy again stirred when she did some provocative ads for Calvin Kline in which she was seen wearing a too tight pair of jeans and cooed, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." This was in contrast to her other ads in which she advised young girls to abstain from sex and a different campaign against smoking. At the peak of her fame, Shields appeared three times on the cover of Life magazine and once on the cover of Time. Her film career picked up around this time with appearances in such venues as King of the Gypsies (1978) and Wanda Nevada (1979), but her best-known film is the so-bad-it's-good The Blue Lagoon (1980) in which she and teenage hunk Christopher Atkins find themselves shipwrecked for years on a desert island. Ostensibly, the film is a tender tale about innocence and true love, but it's primarily a titillating romp filled with plenty of flesh shots of Shields and Atkins' taut, tanned, and partially clad bodies. In 1981, Shields tried her hand with a more serious role in Franco Zeffirelli's tepid teen romance Endless Love, but did not succeed. Shields decided it was time for college and so enrolled in Princeton, where but for the occasional appearance on a Bob Hope television special, made-for-TV movie, or other special event, she immersed herself in college life. While there, she majored in French Literature and also became interested in the theater, gaining experience in two regional productions of +Love Letters. Shields graduated from Princeton with honors. Upon her graduation, Shields returned to acting full time and appeared in films that can most kindly be described as mediocre. In 1996, Shields was given her own situation comedy on NBC network's Suddenly Susan, where she played a single career girl struggling to reassemble her life following her breakup with her wealthy fiancé. Though never among the most natural and relaxed of actresses, Shields gradually grew into her role and proved to be a competent, charismatic comedy actress. She was married to tennis great Andre Agassi.
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