Adrien Brody

Acting · Born 1973-04-14 in New York City, New York, USA

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…

Filmography

• The Pianist as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
• Fantastic Mr. Fox as Field Mouse (voice)
• The Darjeeling Limited as Peter
• The Thin Red Line as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
• Cadillac Records as Leonard Chess
• The Brutalist as László Tóth
• Detachment as Henry Barthes
• Midnight in Paris as Salvador Dalí
• The Grand Budapest Hotel as Dmitri
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Julian Cadazio

TV

• Succession as Josh Aaronson
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as Pat Riley
• Peaky Blinders as Luca Changretta
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The Daily Show as Self
• Today as Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark
• Punk'd as Self
• The View as Self