Adrien Brody
Acting
Born: April 14, 1973 (age 53) · Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Peaky Blinders
2013
The Pianist
2002
King Kong
2005
Midnight in Paris
2011
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
Predators
2010
The Village
2004
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
The Thin Red Line
1998
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
Asteroid City
2023
Photos (19)
Movies (66)
The Brutalist
László Tóth
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dmitri
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Julian Cadazio
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Field Mouse (voice)
The Pianist
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
The Jacket
Jack Starks
Midnight in Paris
Salvador Dalí
The Thin Red Line
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Ghosted
Leveque
King Kong
Jack Driscoll
Asteroid City
Schubert Green
The Village
Noah Percy
Predators
Royce
Manhattan Night
Porter Wren
Bullet Head
Stacy
Cadillac Records
Leonard Chess
The Brothers Bloom
Bloom
See How They Run
Leo Köpernick
Splice
Clive Nicoli
A Matador's Mistress
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
Backtrack
Peter Bower
Air Strike
Steve
Summer of Sam
Ritchie
Septembers of Shiraz
Isaac
The Darjeeling Limited
Peter
Detachment
Henry Barthes
Blonde
The Playwright
Hollywoodland
Louis Simo
Third Person
Sean
King of the Hill
Lester
The Experiment
Travis
Giallo
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
New York Stories
Mel
American Heist
Frankie
Liberty Heights
Van Kurtzman
Fool's Paradise
Chad Luxt
Angels in the Outfield
Danny Hemmerling
Manodrome
Dan
Solo
Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
High School
Psycho Ed
Clean
Clean
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Ben
Dragon Blade
Tiberius
Oxygen
Harry
Bullet
Ruby Stein
The Singing Detective
First Hood
InAPPropriate Comedy
Flirty Harry
The Affair of the Necklace
Count Nicolas De La Motte
Six Ways to Sunday
Arnie Finklestein
Bread and Roses
Sam Shapiro
Harrison's Flowers
Kyle Morris
Wrecked
Man
Back to 1942
Theodore Harold White
Restaurant
Chris Calloway
Love the Hard Way
Jack Grace
Who Will Write Our History?
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Dummy
Steven Schoichet
Jailbreakers
Skinny
Predators: The Chosen
2010
The Undertaker's Wedding
Mario Bellini
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
Eddie
The Mascot
Adam
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
Ten Benny
Ray Diglovanni
Home at Last
Billy
A Sorta Fairytale
Arm
TV Shows (9)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 eps
Peaky Blinders
Luca Changretta · 6 eps
Succession
Josh Aaronson · 2 eps
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Pat Riley · 17 eps
Poker Face
Sterling Frost Jr. · 1 eps
Chapelwaite
Captain Charles Boone · 10 eps
Rebel Highway
Skinny · 1 eps
Icons
1 eps
Houdini
Harry Houdini · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (37)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 2 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 3 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 2 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · 4 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
The Oscars
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Punk'd
Self · 1 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
Trintignant by Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
Love, Marilyn
Self
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Self
Live from Studio Five
Self · 1 eps
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
Self
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Self (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
Self - Peter
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
Self
The Present
Self
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
Self
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
Self / Traveler
Ken and Rosa
Himself
Writing (1)
Producing (8)
Chapelwaite
Executive Producer
Manhattan Night
Producer
Septembers of Shiraz
Executive Producer
Detachment
Executive Producer
Giallo
Producer
American Heist
Executive Producer
Clean
Producer
Wrecked
Executive Producer