Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 14, 1973
Place of Birth:
Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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Adrien Brody
Biography
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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Emperor | Charles V - The Emperor |
| 2025 | Kismet | Self |
| 2025 | The Intern | Self |
| 2024 | The Brutalist | László Tóth |
| 2023 | Ghosted | Leveque |
| 2023 | Fool's Paradise | Chad Luxt |
| 2023 | Manodrome | Dan |
| 2023 | Asteroid City | Schubert Green |
| 2022 | Clean | Clean |
| 2022 | Blonde | The Playwright |
| 2022 | See How They Run | Leo Köpernick |
| 2021 | Trintignant by Trintignant | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Julian Cadazio |
| 2018 | Air Strike | Steve |
| 2018 | Who Will Write Our History? | Emanuel Ringelblum (voice) |
| 2017 | Bullet Head | Stacy |
| 2016 | Manhattan Night | Porter Wren |
| 2015 | Dragon Blade | Tiberius |
| 2015 | Stone Barn Castle | Self |
| 2015 | Backtrack | Peter Bower |
| 2015 | Septembers of Shiraz | Isaac |
| 2015 | The Mascot | Adam |
| 2015 | The Library Book | Desmond |
| 2015 | Boredom | Danny |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Dmitri |
| 2014 | Third Person | Sean |
| 2014 | American Heist | Frankie |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Self |
| 2013 | InAPPropriate Comedy | Flirty Harry |
| 2012 | Back to 1942 | Theodore Harold White |
| 2012 | Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Detachment | Henry Barthes |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Salvador Dalí |
| 2010 | The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' | Self - Peter |
| 2010 | High School | Psycho Ed |
| 2010 | Predators | Royce |
| 2010 | Giallo | Inspector Enzo Avolfi |
| 2010 | The Experiment | Travis |
| 2010 | Splice | Clive |
| 2010 | Wrecked | Man |
| 2010 | Predators: The Chosen | Royce |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Field Mouse (voice) |
| 2008 | The Brothers Bloom | Bloom |
| 2008 | Cadillac Records | Leonard Chess |
| 2008 | A Matador's Mistress | Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete" |
| 2007 | The Darjeeling Limited | Peter |
| 2007 | Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy | Self |
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Louis Simo |
| 2006 | Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' | Self |
| 2006 | Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red | |
| 2006 | The Eighth Blunder of the World | Self |
| 2005 | King Kong | Jack Driscoll |
| 2005 | The Jacket | Jack Starks |
| 2005 | Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May | Self |
| 2005 | King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries | Self |
| 2005 | Deconstructing 'The Village' | Self |
| 2004 | The Village | Noah Percy |
| 2004 | The Present | Self |
| 2004 | The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan | Self |
| 2003 | The Singing Detective | First Hood |
| 2003 | A Sorta Fairytale | Arm |
| 2002 | The Pianist | Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman |
| 2002 | Love the Hard Way | Jack Grace |
| 2002 | Dummy | Steven Schoichet |
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Count Nicolas De La Motte |
| 2001 | Ken and Rosa | Himself |
| 2000 | Harrison's Flowers | Kyle Morris |
| 2000 | Bread and Roses | Sam Shapiro |
| 2000 | Restaurant | Chris Calloway |
| 1999 | Liberty Heights | Van Kurtzman |
| 1999 | Six Ways to Sunday | Arnie Finklestein |
| 1999 | Oxygen | Harry |
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Ritchie |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Cpl. Geoffrey Fife |
| 1998 | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self |
| 1997 | The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Ben |
| 1997 | The Undertaker's Wedding | Mario Bellini |
| 1996 | Solo | Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer |
| 1996 | Bullet | Ruby Stein |
| 1995 | Ten Benny | Ray Diglovanni |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | Danny Hemmerling |
| 1994 | Jailbreakers | Skinny |
| 1993 | King of the Hill | Lester |
| 1991 | The Boy Who Cried Bitch | Eddie |
| 1989 | New York Stories | Mel |
| 1988 | Home at Last | Billy |
| The Salamander Lives Twice | ||
| Evel Knievel on Tour | Shelly Saltman |