Adrien Brody
Known for Acting · 116 credits
- Born
- 1973-04-14 (age 53)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Byron Deidra · Adrien Nicholas Brody · Эдриан Броуди
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).
Known For
TV Shows (29)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self
Peaky Blinders
2013
as Luca Changretta
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (archive footage)
The View
1997
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Succession
2018
as Josh Aaronson
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self
Punk'd
2003
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self / Self - Presenter
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Poker Face
2023
as Sterling Frost Jr.
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
as Pat Riley
Icons
2002
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Rebel Highway
1994
as Skinny
Chapelwaite
2021
as Captain Charles Boone
Houdini
2014
as Harry Houdini
Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
Annie McGuire
1988
Movies (87)
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
Midnight in Paris
2011
as Salvador Dalí
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Field Mouse (voice)
Predators
2010
as Royce
Detachment
2011
as Henry Barthes
Asteroid City
2023
as Schubert Green
Ghosted
2023
as Leveque
The Thin Red Line
1998
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Blonde
2022
as The Playwright
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Peter
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Julian Cadazio
The Village
2004
as Noah Percy
Splice
2010
as Clive
The Jacket
2005
as Jack Starks
Angels in the Outfield
1994
as Danny Hemmerling
Third Person
2014
as Sean
Jailbreakers
1994
as Skinny
American Heist
2014
as Frankie
The Experiment
2010
as Travis
Bullet Head
2017
as Stacy
Bread and Roses
2000
as Sam Shapiro
Fool's Paradise
2023
as Chad Luxt
See How They Run
2022
as Leo Köpernick
Clean
2022
as Clean
Summer of Sam
1999
as Ritchie
Cadillac Records
2008
as Leonard Chess
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Hollywoodland
2006
as Louis Simo
Last Dance
as Elliot
InAPPropriate Comedy
2013
as Flirty Harry
Air Strike
2018
as Steve
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
Dragon Blade
2015
as Tiberius
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
as Self
Back to 1942
2012
as Theodore Harold White
Wrecked
2010
as Man
Manhattan Night
2016
as Porter Wren
Boredom
2015
as Danny
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
1991
as Eddie
The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Bloom
New York Stories
1989
as Mel
Backtrack
2015
as Peter Bower
Septembers of Shiraz
2015
as Isaac
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
2007
as Self
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
as Self (archive footage)
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
2025
as Self / Traveler
The Singing Detective
2003
as First Hood
Harrison's Flowers
2000
as Kyle Morris
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
A Sorta Fairytale
2003
as Arm
Who Will Write Our History?
2018
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
High School
2010
as Psycho Ed
Restaurant
1999
as Chris Calloway
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
as Self
The Undertaker's Wedding
1997
as Mario Bellini
King of the Hill
1993
as Lester
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997
as Ben
Bullet
1996
as Ruby Stein
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
as Self
The Mascot
2015
as Adam
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Oxygen
1999
as Harry
Liberty Heights
1999
as Van Kurtzman
Solo
1996
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
2004
as Self
Predators: The Chosen
2010
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010
as Self - Peter
Love the Hard Way
2003
as Jack Grace
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
as Self
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self
A Matador's Mistress
2008
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
Stone Barn Castle
2015
as Self
Six Ways to Sunday
1999
as Arnie Finklestein
The Present
2004
as Self
Dummy
2002
as Steven Schoichet
Ten Benny
1995
as Ray Diglovanni
Manodrome
2023
as Dan
Ken and Rosa
2001
as Himself
Giallo
2010
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
as Self
Home at Last
1988
as Billy
The Library Book
2015
as Desmond
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
2005
as Self
About Adrien Brody
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 A… With 116 credits spanning from 1944 to 2025, Adrien Brody has appeared in 87 films and 29 TV shows.
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Most Popular Adrien Brody Movies
- 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
- Midnight in Paris (2011) — as Salvador Dalí
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