Adrien Brody

Birthday:
04/14/1973
Place of birth:
New York City, New York, USA:
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).

Credits

KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody (2025)
as Self / Traveler
The Brutalist (2024)
as László Tóth
Manodrome (2023)
as Dan
Asteroid City (2023)
as Schubert Green
Fool's Paradise (2023)
as Chad Luxt
Ghosted (2023)
as Leveque
Blonde (2022)
as The Playwright
See How They Run (2022)
as Leo Köpernick
Clean (2022)
as Clean
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
as Julian Cadazio
Trintignant par Trintignant (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Air Strike (2018)
as Steve
Who Will Write Our History? (2018)
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Bullet Head (2017)
as Stacy
Manhattan Night (2016)
as Porter Wren
Septembers of Shiraz (2015)
as Isaac
Backtrack (2015)
as Peter Bower
The Mascot (2015)
as Adam
The Library Book (2015)
as Desmond
Boredom (2015)
as Danny
Stone Barn Castle (2015)
as Self
天將雄師 (2015)
as Tiberius
American Heist (2014)
as Frankie
Third Person (2014)
as Sean
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
as Dmitri
Love, Marilyn (2013)
as Self
InAPPropriate Comedy (2013)
as Flirty Harry
一九四二 (2012)
as Theodore Harold White
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
as Salvador Dalí
Detachment (2011)
as Henry Barthes
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' (2010)
as Self - Peter
The Experiment (2010)
as Travis
Predators (2010)
as Royce
High School (2010)
as Psycho Ed
Splice (2010)
as Clive
Wrecked (2010)
as Man
Giallo (2010)
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
Predators: The Chosen (2010)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
as Field Mouse (voice)
Cadillac Records (2008)
as Leonard Chess
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
as Bloom
Manolete (2008)
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
as Peter
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy (2007)
as Self
The Eighth Blunder of the World (2006)
as Self
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' (2006)
as Self
Hollywoodland (2006)
as Louis Simo
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red (2006)
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries (2005)
as Self
King Kong (2005)
as Jack Driscoll
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May (2005)
as Self
The Jacket (2005)
as Jack Starks
Deconstructing 'The Village' (2005)
as Self
The Present (2004)
as Self
The Village (2004)
as Noah Percy
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan (2004)
as Self
The Singing Detective (2003)
as First Hood
A Sorta Fairytale (2003)
as Arm
Love the Hard Way (2003)
as Jack Grace
The Pianist (2002)
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Dummy (2002)
as Steven Schoichet
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
Ken and Rosa (2001)
as Himself
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
as Kyle Morris
Bread and Roses (2000)
as Sam Shapiro
Liberty Heights (1999)
as Van Kurtzman
Oxygen (1999)
as Harry
Restaurant (1999)
as Chris Calloway
Summer of Sam (1999)
as Ritchie
Six Ways to Sunday (1999)
as Arnie Finklestein
The Thin Red Line (1998)
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998)
as Self
The Undertaker's Wedding (1997)
as Mario Bellini
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
as Ben
Solo (1996)
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet (1996)
as Ruby Stein
Ten Benny (1995)
as Ray Diglovanni
Jailbreakers (1994)
as Skinny
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
as Danny Hemmerling
King of the Hill (1993)
as Lester
The Boy Who Cried Bitch (1991)
as Eddie
New York Stories (1989)
as Mel
Home at Last (1988)
as Billy
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self
Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman
Last Dance
as Elliot
Clean
Writer
Clean
Producer
Clean
Original Music Composer
Manhattan Night
Producer
Septembers of Shiraz
Executive Producer
Stone Barn Castle
Director
Stone Barn Castle
Producer
American Heist
Executive Producer
InAPPropriate Comedy
Additional Dialogue
Detachment
Executive Producer
Wrecked
Executive Producer
Giallo
Producer

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