Actor

Adrien Brody

Acting

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Acting credits

109

Prolific

Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

4.5

Moderate attention

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Movies: 81Series: 28Crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 3490

IMDb ID: nm0004778

Known for: Acting

Born: April 14, 1973

Age: 52

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1944 - 2026

Years active: 83

Average TMDB rating: 6.25

Wikidata: Q104514

Also known as

Byron Deidra • Adrien Nicholas Brody • Едрієн Броуді • 애드리언 브로디 • Эдриан Броуди • Эдриен Броуди • 阿德里安·布劳迪 • آدرین برودی

Other jobs

Executive Producer (5)Producer (3)Additional Dialogue (1)

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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).