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