
Adrien Brody
Born April 14, 1973 · New York City, New York, USA
Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award, with nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people. Brody started his career in the early 1990s, taking roles in King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter, he also won the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. His other notable films include The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Blonde (2022). He has collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson numerous times, acting in The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). On television, Brody 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 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his respective roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014) and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021). On stage, Brody made his London theatre debut in 2024 and Broadway debut in 2025, portraying death row inmate Nick Yarris in the Lindsey Ferrentino play The Fear of 13 (2024), garnering a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for the former. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Adrien Brody, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Movies

The Brutalist

The Pianist

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Fantastic Mr. Fox

King Kong

The Thin Red Line

The Village

Predators

Asteroid City

Midnight in Paris

Ghosted

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

See How They Run

Detachment

Blonde

The Darjeeling Limited

The Experiment

The Jacket

Air Strike

Manhattan Night

Splice

Third Person

Cadillac Records

Angels in the Outfield
TV Shows

Saturday Night Live

The View

The Late Late Show with James Corden

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Golden Globe Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Peaky Blinders

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Succession

The Oscars

Punk'd

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Today

Poker Face

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Rebel Highway

Icons

The Early Show

Chapelwaite

Houdini

Live from Studio Five
More Movies

Bullet Head

New York Stories

American Heist

Summer of Sam

Dragon Blade

The Brothers Bloom

Fool's Paradise

Hollywoodland

Clean

King of the Hill

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

The Affair of the Necklace

High School

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Love, Marilyn

Backtrack

The Singing Detective

Back to 1942

Septembers of Shiraz

Oxygen

Six Ways to Sunday

Solo

Bread and Roses

Love the Hard Way

Wrecked

Jailbreakers

Liberty Heights

The Boy Who Cried Bitch

The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

Manodrome

Harrison's Flowers

Bullet

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Trintignant by Trintignant

The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'

Dummy

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

InAPPropriate Comedy

Giallo

Who Will Write Our History?

A Matador's Mistress

The Undertaker's Wedding

Deconstructing 'The Village'

The Mascot

The Present

Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May

Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red

Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy

Predators: The Chosen

Restaurant

Ten Benny

Home at Last

KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody

A Sorta Fairytale




