He’s one of the world’s most famous faces thanks in part to his real-life dramatics. Married to America’s sweetheart Jennifer Aniston before divorcing and hooking up with Angelina Jolie after smooching on screen in Mr & Mrs Smith, Pitt’s six-strong brood of adopted and natural children are papped every where they go and Daddy is still regularly voted People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.

He’s rich, connected, influential, a committed philanthropist (he and Jolie regularly donate millions to charity and he spearheads the Make It Right housing project in New Orleans) and an actor able to pick and chose his projects (as he told The Telegraph, “I’m much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don’t really matter…”).