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