
Adrien Brody
Known for Acting · 115 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 Daily Show
1996
as Self

Peaky Blinders
2013
as Luca Changretta

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host / Self (archive footage)

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
as Self - Guest

The View
1997
as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self

Succession
2018
as Josh Aaronson

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self

Poker Face
2023
as Sterling Frost Jr.

The Oscars
1953
as Self / Self - Presenter

Punk'd
2003
as Self

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
as Pat Riley

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self

Rebel Highway
1994
as Skinny

Icons
2002

Today
1952
as Self

Chapelwaite
2021
as Captain Charles Boone

Houdini
2014
as Harry Houdini

The Early Show
1999
as Self
Annie McGuire
1988

Live from Studio Five
2009
as Self
Movies (86)

The Pianist
2002
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Dmitri

King Kong
2005
as Jack Driscoll

Ghosted
2023
as Leveque

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Field Mouse (voice)

Predators
2010
as Royce

The Brutalist
2024
as László Tóth

Asteroid City
2023
as Schubert Green

Blonde
2022
as The Playwright

The Thin Red Line
1998
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife

Detachment
2011
as Henry Barthes

Splice
2010
as Clive

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Julian Cadazio

Midnight in Paris
2011
as Salvador Dalí

The Village
2004
as Noah Percy

Bullet
1996
as Ruby Stein

Dragon Blade
2015
as Tiberius

The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Peter

The Jacket
2005
as Jack Starks

American Heist
2014
as Frankie

The Experiment
2010
as Travis

Air Strike
2018
as Steve

Angels in the Outfield
1994
as Danny Hemmerling

Summer of Sam
1999
as Ritchie

Back to 1942
2012
as Theodore Harold White

Bullet Head
2017
as Stacy

Manodrome
2023
as Dan

Clean
2022
as Clean

Manhattan Night
2016
as Porter Wren

See How They Run
2022
as Leo Köpernick

Cadillac Records
2008
as Leonard Chess

Third Person
2014
as Sean

New York Stories
1989
as Mel

Fool's Paradise
2023
as Chad Luxt

High School
2010
as Psycho Ed

Hollywoodland
2006
as Louis Simo

Backtrack
2015
as Peter Bower

Septembers of Shiraz
2015
as Isaac

A Matador's Mistress
2008
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"

The Brothers Bloom
2008
as Bloom

Solo
1996
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer

Wrecked
2010
as Man

Oxygen
1999
as Harry

Love the Hard Way
2003
as Jack Grace

Bread and Roses
2000
as Sam Shapiro

Liberty Heights
1999
as Van Kurtzman

Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self

The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997
as Ben

Dummy
2002
as Steven Schoichet

The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Count Nicolas De La Motte

Harrison's Flowers
2000
as Kyle Morris

InAPPropriate Comedy
2013
as Flirty Harry

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
as Self

The Singing Detective
2003
as First Hood

King of the Hill
1993
as Lester

The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
2004
as Self

Six Ways to Sunday
1999
as Arnie Finklestein

Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
as Self

Giallo
2010
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi

Jailbreakers
1994
as Skinny
Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman

Restaurant
1999
as Chris Calloway

The Present
2004
as Self

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
as Self (archive footage)

The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010
as Self - Peter

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
as Self

The Boy Who Cried Bitch
1991
as Eddie

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
as Self

Ten Benny
1995
as Ray Diglovanni

Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
2005
as Self
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
as Self

Predators: The Chosen
2010
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self

The Undertaker's Wedding
1997
as Mario Bellini

Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
2007
as Self
Last Dance
as Elliot

Home at Last
1988
as Billy

Ken and Rosa
2001
as Himself

A Sorta Fairytale
2003
as Arm
The Library Book
2015
as Desmond

Who Will Write Our History?
2018
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)

The Mascot
2015
as Adam

Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Boredom
2015
as Danny
Stone Barn Castle
2015
as Self

Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
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 115 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, Adrien Brody has appeared in 86 films and 29 TV shows.
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Most Popular Adrien Brody Movies
- The Pianist (2002) — as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — as Dmitri
- King Kong (2005) — as Jack Driscoll
- Ghosted (2023) — as Leveque
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) — as Field Mouse (voice)
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