Adrien Brody
Birthday: 1973-04-14 | Place of Birth: Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USAAdrien 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
Acting
Role
as Charles V - The Emperor
as Self
as László Tóth
as Chad Luxt
as Dan
as Leveque
as Schubert Green
as Clean
as Leo Köpernick
as Pat Riley
as The Playwright
as Captain Charles Boone
as Julian Cadazio
as Self (archive footage)
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
as Steve
as Stacy
as Isaac
as Porter Wren
as Ralph
as Adam
as Danny
as Desmond
as Frankie
as Peter Bower
as Tiberius
as Dmitri
as Harry Houdini
