Adrien Brody
Born: 1973-04-14 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2026
- Emperor as Charles V - The Emperor
2025
- The Intern as Self
- Kismet as Self
2024
- The Brutalist as László Tóth
2023
- Ghosted as Leveque
- Poker Face as Sterling Frost Jr.
- Asteroid City as Schubert Green
- Manodrome as Dan
- Fool's Paradise as Chad Luxt
2022
- Clean as Clean
- Blonde as The Playwright
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Pat Riley
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self
- See How They Run as Leo Köpernick
2021
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Julian Cadazio
- Chapelwaite as Captain Charles Boone
- Trintignant by Trintignant as Self (archive footage)
2019
- The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2018
- Succession as Josh Aaronson
- Air Strike as Steve
- Who Will Write Our History? as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
2017
- Bullet Head as Stacy
2016
- Manhattan Night as Porter Wren
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
- Backtrack as Peter Bower
- Dragon Blade as Tiberius
- The Mascot as Adam
- Septembers of Shiraz as Isaac
- The Library Book as Desmond
- Stone Barn Castle as Self
- Boredom as Danny
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- The Grand Budapest Hotel as Dmitri
- American Heist as Frankie
- Third Person as Sean
- Houdini as Harry Houdini
2013
- Peaky Blinders as Luca Changretta
- InAPPropriate Comedy as Flirty Harry
- Love, Marilyn as Self
2012
- Back to 1942 as Theodore Harold White
- Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Detachment as Henry Barthes
- Midnight in Paris as Salvador Dalí
2010
- Predators as Royce
- Wrecked as Man
- Giallo as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
- Splice as Clive
- High School as Psycho Ed
- The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' as Self - Peter
- The Experiment as Travis
2009
- Fantastic Mr. Fox as Field Mouse (voice)
- Live from Studio Five as Self
2008
- Cadillac Records as Leonard Chess
- A Matador's Mistress as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
- The Brothers Bloom as Bloom
2007
- The Darjeeling Limited as Peter
- Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy as Self
2006
2005
- King Kong as Jack Driscoll
- The Jacket as Jack Starks
- Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self
- Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May as Self
- King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries as Self
2004
- The Village as Noah Percy
- The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan as Self
- The Present as Self
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Punk'd as Self
- The Singing Detective as First Hood
- Love the Hard Way as Jack Grace
- A Sorta Fairytale as Arm
2002
- The Pianist as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
- Icons
- Dummy as Steven Schoichet
2001
- The Affair of the Necklace as Count Nicolas De La Motte
- Ken and Rosa as Himself
2000
- Bread and Roses as Sam Shapiro
- Harrison's Flowers as Kyle Morris
- Restaurant as Chris Calloway
1999
- Oxygen as Harry
- Summer of Sam as Ritchie
- Six Ways to Sunday as Arnie Finklestein
- Liberty Heights as Van Kurtzman
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- The Thin Red Line as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
- Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- The Undertaker's Wedding as Mario Bellini
- The Last Time I Committed Suicide as Ben
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Bullet as Ruby Stein
- Solo as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
1995
- Ten Benny as Ray Diglovanni
1994
- Angels in the Outfield as Danny Hemmerling
- Rebel Highway as Skinny
- Jailbreakers as Skinny
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- King of the Hill as Lester
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
1991
- The Boy Who Cried Bitch as Eddie
1989
- New York Stories as Mel
1988
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee