Acting
Adrien Brody
EN, FR, ZH, IT cinema · 88 credits
Born
14 April 1973 (age 53)
Birthplace
Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Byron Deidra · Adrien Nicholas Brody · Эдриан Броуди
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
Filmography
Evel Knievel on Tour
Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self
Last Dance
Last Dance
as Elliot
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
as Self / Traveler
The Brutalist
as László Tóth
Ghosted
as Leveque
Fool's Paradise
as Chad Luxt
Manodrome
as Dan
Asteroid City
as Schubert Green
Clean
as Clean, Producer, Original Music Composer, Writer
Blonde
as The Playwright
See How They Run
as Leo Köpernick
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Julian Cadazio
Air Strike
as Steve
Who Will Write Our History?
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Bullet Head
as Stacy
Manhattan Night
as Porter Wren, Producer
Dragon Blade
as Tiberius
Stone Barn Castle
2015
Stone Barn Castle
as Self, Director, Producer
Backtrack
as Peter Bower
Septembers of Shiraz
as Isaac, Executive Producer
The Mascot
as Adam
Boredom
2015
Boredom
as Danny
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Dmitri
Third Person
as Sean
American Heist
as Frankie, Executive Producer
Love, Marilyn
as Self
InAPPropriate Comedy
as Flirty Harry, Additional Dialogue
Back to 1942
as Theodore Harold White
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
Detachment
as Henry Barthes, Executive Producer
Midnight in Paris
as Salvador Dalí
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
as Self - Peter
High School
as Psycho Ed
Predators
as Royce
Giallo
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi, Producer
The Experiment
as Travis
Splice
as Clive Nicoli
Wrecked
as Man, Executive Producer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Field Mouse (voice)
The Brothers Bloom
as Bloom
Cadillac Records
as Leonard Chess
A Matador's Mistress
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
Hollywoodland
as Louis Simo
King Kong
as Jack Driscoll
The Jacket
as Jack Starks
The Village
as Noah Percy
The Singing Detective
as First Hood
Love the Hard Way
as Jack Grace
The Pianist
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Dummy
as Steven Schoichet
The Affair of the Necklace
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
Ken and Rosa
as Himself
Harrison's Flowers
as Kyle Morris
Bread and Roses
as Sam Shapiro
Liberty Heights
as Van Kurtzman
Six Ways to Sunday
as Arnie Finklestein
Oxygen
as Harry
Restaurant
as Chris Calloway
Summer of Sam
as Ritchie
The Thin Red Line
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
The Undertaker's Wedding
as Mario Bellini
Solo
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet
as Ruby Stein
Ten Benny
as Ray Diglovanni
Angels in the Outfield
as Danny Hemmerling
Jailbreakers
as Skinny
King of the Hill
as Lester
Home at Last
as Billy