Hero #105: Brad Pitt … (02/18/16)
Born in December of 1963, Brad Pitt is an outstanding American actor — starring in, among other films, “A River Runs Through It”, “Legends of the Fall”, “Seven”, “12 Monkeys”, “Seven Years in Tibet”, “Fight Club”, “Spy Game”, “Babel”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “Moneyball”, and “The Tree of Life”. He is also an accomplished film producer (including “The Departed” & “12 Years a Slave”), and most importantly — and most impressively — is a big-hearted humanitarian, a big-tipper, and a big fan of spontaneous acts of Kindness.
Pitt is known not only for being a doting father (of six children no less — two with Jolie and four adopted), but also for his humility as well as his charity work for & large donations to several humanitarian organizations, among them: the Make It Right Foundation — that he founded to build green homes for the victims of Hurricane Katrina (and now also for impoverished members of the Montana Sioux and Assiniboine Native American tribes), the Jolie-Pitt Foundation — that he co-founded with his wife to help eradicate extreme rural poverty & conserve wildlife (which has donated sizable sums of money to Doctors Without Borders, Global Action for Children and U.N. refugee agency helping Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants), … and the ONE Campaign — that combats AIDS & poverty in developing countries.
Also, in May of 2007, Pitt and his wife (Angelina Jolie) donated $1 million to three organizations in Chad and the Sudan that were dedicated to helping those people affected by the crisis in the Darfur region … And as if that wasn’t enough, Pitt, along with several others (including George Clooney, Matt Damon & Don Cheadle), helped co-found Not On Our Watch — an organization that focuses global attention on stopping “mass atrocities”.
“I don’t care what I look like; I try to be a good person.” ~ Brad Pitt
“Our boy’s from Vietnam and our daughter’s from Ethiopia, and our girl is from Namibia and our son is from Cambodia … and they’re brothers and sisters.” ~ Brad Pitt
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