Adrien Brody
Award-winning American actor celebrated for transformative performances across film and television, best known for his Oscar-winning role in The Pianist.
Adrien Brody - Personal Information
- Name: Adrien Brody
- Date of Birth: April 14, 1973
- Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Original Music Composer, Director, Writer
Biography
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).
Selected Filmography
A selection of Adrien Brody's most notable recent screen appearances across film and television.
- Emperor (2026) as Charles V - The Emperor
- Kismet (2025) as Self
- The Brutalist (2024) as László Tóth
- Manodrome (2023) as Dan
- Asteroid City (2023) as Schubert Green
- Fool's Paradise (2023) as Chad Luxt
- Ghosted (2023) as Leveque
- Poker Face (TV - 2023) as Sterling Frost Jr.
- Blonde (2022) as The Playwright
- See How They Run (2022) as Leo Köpernick
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