Adrien Brody
- Acting
- April 14, 1973 · Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
- KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody · Self / Traveler
- The Brutalist · László Tóth
- Manodrome · Dan
- Asteroid City · Schubert Green
- Fool's Paradise · Chad Luxt
- Ghosted · Leveque
- Poker Face · Sterling Frost Jr.
- Blonde · The Playwright
- See How They Run · Leo Köpernick
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg · Self
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · Pat Riley
- Clean · Clean, Producer
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun · Julian Cadazio
- Trintignant by Trintignant · Self
- Chapelwaite · Captain Charles Boone, Executive producer
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Air Strike · Steve
- Who Will Write Our History? · Emanuel Ringelblum (Voice)
- Succession · Josh Aaronson
- Bullet Head · Stacy
- Manhattan Night · Porter Wren, Producer
- Septembers of Shiraz · Isaac, Executive producer
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Backtrack · Peter Bower
- The Mascot · Adam
- The Library Book · Desmond
- Boredom · Danny
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Stone Barn Castle · Self, Director
- Dragon Blade · Tiberius
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- American Heist · Frankie, Executive producer
- Houdini · Harry Houdini
- Third Person · Sean
- The Grand Budapest Hotel · Dmitri
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Peaky Blinders · Luca Changretta
- Love, Marilyn · Self
- InAPPropriate Comedy · Flirty Harry, Additional Dialogue
- Back to 1942 · Theodore Harold White
- Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir · Self
- Midnight in Paris · Salvador Dalí
- Detachment · Henry Barthes, Executive producer
- The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' · Self
- The Experiment · Travis
- Predators · Royce
- High School · Psycho Ed
- Splice · Clive Nicoli
- Wrecked · Man, Executive producer
- Giallo · Inspector Enzo Avolfi, Producer
- Predators: The Chosen
- Fantastic Mr. Fox · Field Mouse (Voice)
- Live from Studio Five · Self
- The Brothers Bloom · Bloom
- Cadillac Records · Leonard Chess
- A Matador's Mistress · Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
- The Darjeeling Limited · Peter
- Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy · Self
- Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' · Self
- The Eighth Blunder of the World · Self
- Hollywoodland · Louis Simo
- Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
- King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries · Self
- King Kong · Jack Driscoll
- Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May · Self
- The Jacket · Jack Starks
- Deconstructing 'The Village' · Self
- The Present · Self
- The Village · Noah Percy
- The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan · Self
- The Singing Detective · First Hood
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show · Self
- A Sorta Fairytale · Arm
- Love the Hard Way · Jack Grace
- Punk'd · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- The Pianist · Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
- Dummy · Steven Schoichet
- Icons
- The Affair of the Necklace · Count Nicolas De La Motte