Adrien Brody

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

119

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-04-14 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Adrien Brody

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).

Known For

  • The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  • Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    The Kelly Clarkson Show

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • The View

    The View

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

  • Succession

    Succession

  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  • Poker Face

    Poker Face

  • Punk'd

    Punk'd

  • Ghosted

    Ghosted

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

  • King Kong

    King Kong

  • Predators

    Predators

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

  • Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

    Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

  • Today

    Today

  • The Pianist

    The Pianist

  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

    Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

  • Houdini

    Houdini

  • Detachment

    Detachment

  • The Thin Red Line

    The Thin Red Line

  • Asteroid City

    Asteroid City

  • The Darjeeling Limited

    The Darjeeling Limited

  • Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris

  • Dragon Blade

    Dragon Blade

  • See How They Run

    See How They Run

  • The French Dispatch

    The French Dispatch

  • Splice

    Splice

  • The Jacket

    The Jacket

  • Chapelwaite

    Chapelwaite

  • Septembers of Shiraz

    Septembers of Shiraz

  • The Singing Detective

    The Singing Detective

  • Ken and Rosa

    Ken and Rosa

  • Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marilyn

  • Clean

    Clean

  • Blonde

    Blonde

  • Bullet

    Bullet

  • Backtrack

    Backtrack

  • Back to 1942

    Back to 1942

  • Angels in the Outfield

    Angels in the Outfield

  • Bullet Head

    Bullet Head

  • Who Will Write Our History?

    Who Will Write Our History?

  • A Matador's Mistress

    A Matador's Mistress

  • The Village

    The Village

  • American Heist

    American Heist

  • Rebel Highway

    Rebel Highway

  • Icons

    Icons

  • Air Strike

    Air Strike

  • Deconstructing 'The Village'

    Deconstructing 'The Village'

  • Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam

  • The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'

    The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'

  • Fool's Paradise

    Fool's Paradise

  • The Affair of the Necklace

    The Affair of the Necklace

  • The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

    The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

  • King of the Hill

    King of the Hill

  • The Early Show

    The Early Show

  • Cadillac Records

    Cadillac Records

  • Harrison's Flowers

    Harrison's Flowers

  • InAPPropriate Comedy

    InAPPropriate Comedy

  • Six Ways to Sunday

    Six Ways to Sunday

  • Dummy

    Dummy

  • New York Stories

    New York Stories

  • Giallo

    Giallo

  • Wrecked

    Wrecked

  • Solo

    Solo

  • Hollywoodland

    Hollywoodland

  • The Brothers Bloom

    The Brothers Bloom

  • Oxygen

    Oxygen

  • High School

    High School

  • Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

    Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

  • The Intern

    The Intern

  • Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

    Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

  • Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night

  • Liberty Heights

    Liberty Heights

  • Annie McGuire

    Annie McGuire

  • The Last Time I Committed Suicide

    The Last Time I Committed Suicide

  • Third Person

    Third Person

  • Evel Knievel on Tour

    Evel Knievel on Tour

  • The Experiment

    The Experiment

  • Manodrome

    Manodrome

  • Jailbreakers

    Jailbreakers

  • Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

    Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

  • The Undertaker's Wedding

    The Undertaker's Wedding

  • The Boy Who Cried Bitch

    The Boy Who Cried Bitch

  • Love the Hard Way

    Love the Hard Way

  • Ten Benny

    Ten Benny

  • Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May

    Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May

  • The Present

    The Present

  • Trintignant by Trintignant

    Trintignant by Trintignant

  • Live from Studio Five

    Live from Studio Five

  • The Library Book

    The Library Book

  • Home at Last

    Home at Last

  • Emperor

    Emperor

  • Bread and Roses

    Bread and Roses

  • A Sorta Fairytale

    A Sorta Fairytale

  • Restaurant

    Restaurant

  • King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

    King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

  • Kismet

    Kismet

  • Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red

    Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red

  • The Mascot

    The Mascot

  • Boredom

    Boredom

  • Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy

    Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy

  • The Salamander Lives Twice

    The Salamander Lives Twice

  • The Eighth Blunder of the World

    The Eighth Blunder of the World

  • Stone Barn Castle

    Stone Barn Castle