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 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).
116 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 116
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Peaky Blinders
2013
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Succession
2018
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Poker Face
2023
Punk'd
2003
The Oscars
1953
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
The Pianist
2002
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
King Kong
2005
Ghosted
2023
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
The Brutalist
2024
Rebel Highway
1994
Today
1952
Predators
2010
Detachment
2011
The Thin Red Line
1998
Splice
2010
Blonde
2022
Asteroid City
2023
Icons
2002
Chapelwaite
2021
Midnight in Paris
2011
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Houdini
2014
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
The Village
2004
Bullet
1996
Dragon Blade
2015
The Early Show
1999
The Jacket
2005
Summer of Sam
1999
The Experiment
2010
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Air Strike
2018
Third Person
2014
Manodrome
2023
Clean
2022
Back to 1942
2012
Cadillac Records
2008
See How They Run
2022
Annie McGuire
1988
Manhattan Night
2016
Bullet Head
2017
American Heist
2014
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Septembers of Shiraz
2015
High School
2010
Hollywoodland
2006
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997
Fool's Paradise
2023
New York Stories
1989
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
2004
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
Solo
1996
A Matador's Mistress
2008
Backtrack
2015
Harrison's Flowers
2000
Liberty Heights
1999
Dummy
2002
Love, Marilyn
2013
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
The Singing Detective
2003
Bread and Roses
2000
Wrecked
2010
Live from Studio Five
2009
InAPPropriate Comedy
2013
Love the Hard Way
2003
Oxygen
1999
Restaurant
1999
King of the Hill
1993
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005
The Present
2004
Six Ways to Sunday
1999
Evel Knievel on Tour
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Giallo
2010
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005
Jailbreakers
1994
Home at Last
1988
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
1991
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021
The Undertaker's Wedding
1997
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
2007
Ten Benny
1995
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
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Predators: The Chosen
2010
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
2005
Last Dance
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Boredom
2015
The Mascot
2015
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
The Library Book
2015
Ken and Rosa
2001
Who Will Write Our History?
2018
A Sorta Fairytale
2003
Stone Barn Castle
2015
Superman Israeli
1800