What is the name of the character played by Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds?

Brad Pitt plays First Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds.

Raine leads the “Basterds,” a Jewish-American commando unit operating behind German lines in Nazi-occupied France. His mission is to kill Nazi soldiers, spread fear, and undermine the German war effort. The film presents him as a deliberately heightened, western-style resistance hero rather than a strictly realistic historical figure.

Raine is also known as “The Apache,” a nickname connected to his unit’s practice of scalping Nazi soldiers. His distinctive Tennessee accent, swaggering leadership, and demand that his men bring him “one hundred Nazi scalps” make him one of the film’s most recognizable characters.

A common mix-up is confusing Pitt’s character with Hans Landa, the SS officer played by Christoph Waltz, or Fredrick Zoller, the German soldier portrayed by Daniel Brühl. Inglourious Basterds is an alternate-history film, so Raine’s unit is fictionalized even though it operates within the real setting of World War II.