Adrien Brody
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Adrien Brody
Self / Traveler
... 2025
László Tóth
... 2024
Dan
... 2023
Schubert Green
... 2023
Chad Luxt
... 2023
Leveque
... 2023
The Playwright
... 2022
Leo Köpernick
... 2022
Clean
... 2022
Julian Cadazio
... 2021
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Steve
... 2018
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
... 2018
Stacy
... 2017
Porter Wren
... 2016
Isaac
... 2015
Peter Bower
... 2015
Adam
... 2015
Desmond
... 2015
Danny
... 2015
Self
... 2015
Tiberius
... 2015
Frankie
... 2014
Sean
... 2014
Dmitri
... 2014
Self
... 2013
Flirty Harry
... 2013
Theodore Harold White
... 2012
Self (archive footage)
... 2012
Salvador Dalí
... 2011
Henry Barthes
... 2011
Self - Peter
... 2010
Travis
... 2010
Royce
... 2010
Psycho Ed
... 2010
Clive
... 2010
Man
... 2010
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
... 2010
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Field Mouse (voice)
... 2009
Leonard Chess
... 2008
Bloom
... 2008
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
... 2008
Peter
... 2007
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Louis Simo
... 2006
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Jack Driscoll
... 2005
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Jack Starks
... 2005
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Self
... 2004
Noah Percy
... 2004
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First Hood
... 2003
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Jack Grace
... 2003
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
... 2002
Steven Schoichet
... 2002
Count Nicolas De La Motte
... 2001
Himself
... 2001
Kyle Morris
... 2000
Sam Shapiro
... 2000
Van Kurtzman
... 1999
Harry
... 1999
Chris Calloway
... 1999
Ritchie
... 1999
Arnie Finklestein
... 1999
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
... 1998
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Mario Bellini
... 1997
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Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
... 1996
Ruby Stein
... 1996
Ray Diglovanni
... 1995
Skinny
... 1994
Danny Hemmerling
... 1994
Lester
... 1993
Eddie
... 1991
Mel
... 1989
Billy
... 1988
Shelly Saltman
Elliot