Adrien Brody
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).
Filmography (41)
The Brutalist
Ghosted
Asteroid City
See How They Run
Blonde
Clean
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Air Strike
Bullet Head
Manhattan Night
Septembers of Shiraz
Backtrack
The Grand Budapest Hotel
American Heist
Third Person
InAPPropriate Comedy
Midnight in Paris
Detachment
Predators
Splice
Giallo
Wrecked
The Experiment
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cadillac Records
The Brothers Bloom
The Darjeeling Limited
Hollywoodland
King Kong
The Jacket
The Village
The Pianist
Oxygen
Summer of Sam
Six Ways to Sunday
The Thin Red Line
The Undertaker's Wedding
Solo
Bullet
Angels in the Outfield
