Adrien Brody

Known for ActingBorn 1973-04-14 (age 53)New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Peaky Blinders

Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red

Succession

The Pianist

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Icons

Rebel Highway

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Detachment

Poker Face

Midnight in Paris

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

Chapelwaite

Who Will Write Our History?

The Thin Red Line

Annie McGuire

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

The Darjeeling Limited

The Brutalist

Cadillac Records

Houdini

Ghosted

The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'

Trintignant by Trintignant

Ken and Rosa

King Kong

The Jacket

Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May

Back to 1942

King of the Hill

The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

Asteroid City

Love, Marilyn

Saturday Night Live

Liberty Heights

The Brothers Bloom

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Dragon Blade

See How They Run

Boredom

The Village

The Oscars

Harrison's Flowers

Summer of Sam

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Experiment