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