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Adrien Brody
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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 brutalis…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Adrien Brody's Filmography
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KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
as Self / Traveler
The Brutalist
as László Tóth
Manodrome
as Dan
Asteroid City
as Schubert Green
Fool's Paradise
as Chad Luxt
Ghosted
as Leveque
Blonde
as The Playwright
See How They Run
as Leo Köpernick
Clean
as Clean
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Julian Cadazio
Trintignant by Trintignant
as Self (archive footage)
Air Strike
as Steve
Who Will Write Our History?
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Bullet Head
as Stacy
Manhattan Night
as Porter Wren
Septembers of Shiraz
as Isaac
Backtrack
as Peter Bower
No Poster
Boredom
as Danny
The Mascot
as Adam
No Poster
The Library Book
as Desmond
No Poster
Stone Barn Castle
as Self
Dragon Blade
as Tiberius
American Heist
as Frankie
Third Person
as Sean
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Dmitri
Love, Marilyn
as Self
InAPPropriate Comedy
as Flirty Harry
Back to 1942
as Theodore Harold White
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight in Paris
as Salvador Dalí
Detachment
as Henry Barthes
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
as Self - Peter
The Experiment
as Travis
Predators
as Royce
Splice
as Clive Nicoli
High School
as Psycho Ed
Wrecked
as Man
Giallo
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
Predators: The Chosen
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"
The Darjeeling Limited
as Peter
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
as Self
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
as Self
No Poster
The Eighth Blunder of the World
as Self
Hollywoodland
as Louis Simo
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
as Self
King Kong
as Jack Driscoll
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
as Self
The Jacket
as Jack Starks
Deconstructing 'The Village'
as Self
The Present
as Self
The Village
as Noah Percy
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
as Self
The Singing Detective
as First Hood
A Sorta Fairytale
as Arm
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
Oxygen
as Harry
Restaurant
as Chris Calloway
Summer of Sam
as Ritchie
Six Ways to Sunday
as Arnie Finklestein
The Thin Red Line
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as Self
The Undertaker's Wedding
as Mario Bellini
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
as Ben
Solo
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet
as Ruby Stein
Ten Benny
as Ray Diglovanni
Jailbreakers
as Skinny
Angels in the Outfield
as Danny Hemmerling
King of the Hill
as Lester
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
as Eddie
New York Stories
as Mel
Home at Last
as Billy
No Poster
Last Dance
as Elliot
No Poster
Snake Island
No Poster
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
as Self
No Poster
Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman