Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

CountryUnited States United States
GenderMale
BirthdayApr 14, 1973
BiographyAdrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. His accolades include two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Brody started his career in 1989 and gained early attention with roles in the films King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). For his breakthrough role as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), he became the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29. He then appeared in the films The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Detachment (2011), and Blonde (2022).

A frequent collaborator of filmmaker Wes Anderson, Brody has also acted in Anderson's films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). During this period, he also gained recognition for his work in television, earning Emmy nominations for portraying Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014) and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021), as well as for narrating the documentary Breakthrough (2015). He also played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the Netflix series Peaky Blinders (2017), and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023). In 2024, Brody starred as Holocaust survivor and brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024), for which he received his second Academy Award for Best Actor.

On stage, Adrien Brody made his London theatre debut as 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.

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