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Adrien Brody

Born 1973-04-14
📍 New York City, New York, USA

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).

Filmography 112

Kismet
as Self
2025
The Brutalist
as László Tóth
2024
Manodrome
as Dan
2023
Asteroid City
as Schubert Green
2023
Fool's Paradise
as Chad Luxt
2023
Ghosted
as Leveque
2023
Poker Face
as Sterling Frost Jr.
2023
Blonde
as The Playwright
2022
See How They Run
as Leo Köpernick
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
as Pat Riley
2022
Clean
as Clean
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Julian Cadazio
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Chapelwaite
as Captain Charles Boone
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
Air Strike
as Steve
2018
Who Will Write Our History?
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
2018
Succession
as Josh Aaronson
2018
Bullet Head
as Stacy
2017
Manhattan Night
as Porter Wren
2016
Septembers of Shiraz
as Isaac
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
Backtrack
as Peter Bower
2015
The Mascot
as Adam
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
Dragon Blade
as Tiberius
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
American Heist
as Frankie
2014
Houdini
as Harry Houdini
2014
Third Person
as Sean
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Dmitri
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Peaky Blinders
as Luca Changretta
2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
InAPPropriate Comedy
as Flirty Harry
2013
Back to 1942
as Theodore Harold White
2012
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Midnight in Paris
as Salvador Dalí
2011
Detachment
as Henry Barthes
2011
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
as Self - Peter
2010
The Experiment
as Travis
2010
Predators
as Royce
2010
High School
as Psycho Ed
2010
Splice
as Clive
2010
Wrecked
as Man
2010
Giallo
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
2010
Predators: The Chosen
2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Field Mouse (voice)
2009
Live from Studio Five
as Self
2009
Cadillac Records
as Leonard Chess
2008
The Brothers Bloom
as Bloom
2008
A Matador's Mistress
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
2008
The Darjeeling Limited
as Peter
2007
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
as Self
2007
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
as Self
2006
Hollywoodland
as Louis Simo
2006
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
as Self
2005
King Kong
as Jack Driscoll
2005
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
as Self
2005
The Jacket
as Jack Starks
2005
Deconstructing 'The Village'
as Self
2005
The Present
as Self
2004
The Village
as Noah Percy
2004
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
as Self
2004
The Singing Detective
as First Hood
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
A Sorta Fairytale
as Arm
2003
Love the Hard Way
as Jack Grace
2003
Punk'd
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
The Pianist
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
2002
Dummy
as Steven Schoichet
2002
Icons
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
2001
Ken and Rosa
as Himself
2001
Harrison's Flowers
as Kyle Morris
2000
Bread and Roses
as Sam Shapiro
2000
Restaurant
as Chris Calloway
2000
Liberty Heights
as Van Kurtzman
1999
Oxygen
as Harry
1999
The Early Show
as Self
1999
Summer of Sam
as Ritchie
1999
Six Ways to Sunday
as Arnie Finklestein
1999
The Thin Red Line
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as Self
1998
The View
as Self
1997
The Undertaker's Wedding
as Mario Bellini
1997
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
as Ben
1997
Solo
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
1996
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Bullet
as Ruby Stein
1996
Ten Benny
as Ray Diglovanni
1995
Jailbreakers
as Skinny
1994
Angels in the Outfield
as Danny Hemmerling
1994
Rebel Highway
as Skinny
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
King of the Hill
as Lester
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
as Eddie
1991
New York Stories
as Mel
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
Home at Last
as Billy
1988
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self (archive footage)
1975
The Oscars
as Self
1953
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
Today
as Self
1952
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944