Adrien Brody
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).
Acting (80 movies)
King Kong
2005
The Pianist
2002
Hollywoodland
2006
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
The Singing Detective
2003
The Brothers Bloom
2008
The Village
2004
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Harrison's Flowers
2000
The Thin Red Line
1998
King of the Hill
1993
Liberty Heights
1999
High School
2010
The Jacket
2005
Predators
2010
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
2005
Giallo
2010
Solo
1996
Bullet
1996
Cadillac Records
2008
The Brutalist
2024
The Experiment
2010
Bread and Roses
2000
Splice
2010
A Matador's Mistress
2008
Love the Hard Way
2002
Six Ways to Sunday
1999
Dummy
2002
Oxygen
1999
Wrecked
2010
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
Restaurant
2000
New York Stories
1989
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
Detachment
2011
Ghosted
2023
Midnight in Paris
2011
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
Love, Marilyn
2013
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Ten Benny
1995
InAPPropriate Comedy
2013
Back to 1942
2012
Third Person
2014
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
1991
American Heist
2014
Clean
2022
The Undertaker's Wedding
1997
The Present
2004
Dragon Blade
2015
Manhattan Night
2016
Backtrack
2015
A Sorta Fairytale
2003
Septembers of Shiraz
2015
Home at Last
1988
The Mascot
2015
Ken and Rosa
2001
Summer of Sam
1999
Bullet Head
2017
Jailbreakers
1994
Air Strike
2018
Fool's Paradise
2023
The French Dispatch
2021
Blonde
2022
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
2004
See How They Run
2022
Manodrome
2023
Asteroid City
2023
Kismet
2025
Emperor
2026
Who Will Write Our History?
2018
The Intern
2025
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Giallo | 2010 | Producer |
| Wrecked | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Detachment | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| American Heist | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Stone Barn Castle | 2015 | Producer |
| Septembers of Shiraz | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Manhattan Night | 2016 | Producer |
| Clean | 2022 | Producer |
| Clean | 2022 | Original Music Composer |
| Clean | 2022 | Writer |
| The Intern | 2025 | Producer |