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Adrien Brody

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Adrien Brody

Born April 14, 1973 in New York City, New York, USA69 films

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award, with nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

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Brody started his career in the early 1990s, taking roles in King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter, he also won the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

His other notable films include The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Blonde (2022). He has collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson numerous times, acting in The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023).

On television, Brody 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 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his respective roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014) and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).

On stage, Brody made his London theatre debut in 2024 and Broadway debut in 2025, portraying death row inmate Nick Yarris in the Lindsey Ferrentino play The Fear of 13 (2024), garnering a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for the former.

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The Pianist posterFirst watchThe Pianist20028.4as Władysław 'Władek' SzpilmanThe true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing…View film

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Filmography

69 films as actor
  1. TBAEvel Knievel on TourShelly Saltman
  2. TBALast DanceElliot
  3. TBASnake Island
  4. 2024The BrutalistLászló Tóth
  5. 2023ManodromeDan
  6. 2023Asteroid CitySchubert Green
  7. 2023Fool's ParadiseChad Luxt
  8. 2023GhostedLeveque
  9. 2022BlondeThe Playwright
  10. 2022See How They RunLeo Köpernick
  11. 2022CleanClean
  12. 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunJulian Cadazio
  13. 2018Air StrikeSteve
  14. 2017Bullet HeadStacy
  15. 2016Manhattan NightPorter Wren
  16. 2015Septembers of ShirazIsaac
  17. 2015BacktrackPeter Bower
  18. 2015The MascotAdam
  19. 2015The Library BookDesmond
  20. 2015BoredomDanny
  21. 2015Dragon BladeTiberius
  22. 2014American HeistFrankie
  23. 2014Third PersonSean
  24. 2014The Grand Budapest HotelDmitri
  25. 2013InAPPropriate ComedyFlirty Harry
  26. 2012Back to 1942Theodore Harold White
  27. 2011Midnight in ParisSalvador Dalí
  28. 2011DetachmentHenry Barthes
  29. 2010The ExperimentTravis
  30. 2010PredatorsRoyce
  31. 2010High SchoolPsycho Ed
  32. 2010SpliceClive
  33. 2010WreckedMan
  34. 2010GialloInspector Enzo Avolfi
  35. 2010Predators: The Chosen
  36. 2009Fantastic Mr. FoxField Mouse (voice)
  37. 2008Cadillac RecordsLeonard Chess
  38. 2008The Brothers BloomBloom
  39. 2008A Matador's MistressManuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
  40. 2007The Darjeeling LimitedPeter
  41. 2006HollywoodlandLouis Simo
  42. 2006Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
  43. 2005King KongJack Driscoll
  44. 2005The JacketJack Starks
  45. 2004The VillageNoah Percy
  46. 2003The Singing DetectiveFirst Hood
  47. 2003Love the Hard WayJack Grace
  48. 2002The PianistWładysław 'Władek' Szpilman
  49. 2002DummySteven Schoichet
  50. 2001The Affair of the NecklaceCount Nicolas De La Motte
  51. 2000Harrison's FlowersKyle Morris
  52. 2000Bread and RosesSam Shapiro
  53. 1999Liberty HeightsVan Kurtzman
  54. 1999OxygenHarry
  55. 1999RestaurantChris Calloway
  56. 1999Summer of SamRitchie
  57. 1999Six Ways to SundayArnie Finklestein
  58. 1998The Thin Red LineCpl. Geoffrey Fife
  59. 1997The Undertaker's WeddingMario Bellini
  60. 1997The Last Time I Committed SuicideBen
  61. 1996SoloDr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
  62. 1996BulletRuby Stein
  63. 1995Ten BennyRay Diglovanni
  64. 1994JailbreakersSkinny
  65. 1994Angels in the OutfieldDanny Hemmerling
  66. 1993King of the HillLester
  67. 1991The Boy Who Cried BitchEddie
  68. 1989New York StoriesMel
  69. 1988Home at LastBilly