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).
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Also known as | Byron Deidra |
Popular as | Acting |
Gender | MALE |
Birthday | April 14, 1973 (52 years old) |
Year | Movie & Role |
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2024 | The Brutalist as László Tóth |
2010 | The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' as Self - Peter |
2010 | High School as Psycho Ed |
2010 | Wrecked as Man |
2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox as Field Mouse (voice) |
2008 | Cadillac Records as Leonard Chess |
2007 | The Darjeeling Limited as Peter |
2006 | Hollywoodland as Louis Simo |
2005 | King Kong as Jack Driscoll |
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 |
1999 | Liberty Heights as Van Kurtzman |
1998 | The Thin Red Line as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife |
1997 | |
1996 | Solo as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer |
1996 | Bullet as Ruby Stein |
1994 | Angels in the Outfield as Danny Hemmerling |
1993 | King of the Hill as Lester |