Acting
Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film. For his role as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in The Brutalist (2024), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and earned his second Academy Award Nomination and subsequent win for Best Actor.
Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line(1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), and See How They Run(2022). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in his films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City(2023). He portrayed Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominik's Blonde (2022).
On television, he has played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2017) and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023). He earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrien Brody, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as | Byron Deidra |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | MALE |
Birthday | April 14, 1973 (52 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
---|---|
2024 | The Brutalist as László Tóth |
2023 | Ghosted as Leveque |
2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel as Dmitri |
2013 | Love, Marilyn as Self |
2010 | Wrecked as Man |
2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox as Field Mouse (voice) |
2008 | Cadillac Records as Leonard Chess |
2006 | Hollywoodland as Louis Simo |
2006 | Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self |
2005 | The Jacket as Jack Starks |
2002 | Dummy as Steven Schoichet |
2001 | The Affair of the Necklace as Count Nicolas De La Motte |
2000 | Bread and Roses as Sam Shapiro |
1998 | The Thin Red Line as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife |
1997 | |
1996 | Bullet as Ruby Stein |
1995 | Ten Benny as Ray Diglovanni |
1994 | Angels in the Outfield as Danny Hemmerling |
1993 | King of the Hill as Lester |
1989 | New York Stories as Mel |