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