Adrien Brody
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 14, 1973 (age 53)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 118
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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Known for
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
Dmitri
Peaky Blinders
2013TV
Luca Changretta
The Pianist
2002Movie
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
King Kong
2005Movie
Jack Driscoll
Midnight in Paris
2011Movie
Salvador Dalí
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009Movie
Field Mouse (voice)
Filmography
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
2025Movie
Self / Traveler
The Brutalist
2024Movie
László Tóth
Manodrome
2023Movie
Dan
Asteroid City
2023Movie
Schubert Green
Fool's Paradise
2023Movie
Chad Luxt
Ghosted
2023Movie
Leveque
Poker Face
2023TV
Sterling Frost Jr.
Blonde
2022Movie
The Playwright
See How They Run
2022Movie
Leo Köpernick
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
2022TV
Pat Riley
Clean
2022Movie
Clean
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021Movie
Julian Cadazio
Trintignant by Trintignant
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Chapelwaite
2021TV
Captain Charles Boone
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019TV
Self
Air Strike
2018Movie
Steve
Who Will Write Our History?
2018Movie
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Succession
2018TV
Josh Aaronson
Bullet Head
2017Movie
Stacy
Manhattan Night
2016Movie
Porter Wren
Septembers of Shiraz
2015Movie
Isaac
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self
Backtrack
2015Movie
Peter Bower
The Mascot
2015Movie
Adam
The Library Book
2015Movie
Desmond
Boredom
2015Movie
Danny
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015TV
Self - Guest
Stone Barn Castle
2015Movie
Self
Dragon Blade
2015Movie
Tiberius
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
American Heist
2014Movie
Frankie
Houdini
2014TV
Harry Houdini
Third Person
2014Movie
Sean
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014Movie
Dmitri
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self - Guest, Self
Peaky Blinders
2013TV
Luca Changretta
Love, Marilyn
2013Movie
Self
InAPPropriate Comedy
2013Movie
Flirty Harry
Back to 1942
2012Movie
Theodore Harold White
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012Movie
Self (archive footage)
Midnight in Paris
2011Movie
Salvador Dalí
Detachment
2011Movie
Henry Barthes
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
2010Movie
Self - Peter
The Experiment
2010Movie
Travis
Predators
2010Movie
Royce
High School
2010Movie
Psycho Ed
Splice
2010Movie
Clive
Wrecked
2010Movie
Man
Giallo
2010Movie
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
Predators: The Chosen
2010Movie
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009Movie
Field Mouse (voice)
Live from Studio Five
2009TV
Self
The Brothers Bloom
2009Movie
Bloom
Cadillac Records
2008Movie
Leonard Chess
A Matador's Mistress
2008Movie
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
The Darjeeling Limited
2007Movie
Peter
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
2007Movie
Self
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006Movie
Self
The Eighth Blunder of the World
2006Movie
Self
Hollywoodland
2006Movie
Louis Simo
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006Movie
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
2005Movie
Self
King Kong
2005Movie
Jack Driscoll
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
2005Movie
Self
The Jacket
2005Movie
Jack Starks
Deconstructing 'The Village'
2005Movie
Self
The Present
2004Movie
Self
The Village
2004Movie
Noah Percy
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
2004Movie
Self
The Singing Detective
2003Movie
First Hood
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003TV
Self
A Sorta Fairytale
2003Movie
Arm
Love the Hard Way
2003Movie
Jack Grace
Punk'd
2003TV
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self
The Pianist
2002Movie
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Dummy
2002Movie
Steven Schoichet
Icons
2002TV
The Affair of the Necklace
2001Movie
Count Nicolas De La Motte
Ken and Rosa
2001Movie
Himself
Harrison's Flowers
2000Movie
Kyle Morris
Bread and Roses
2000Movie
Sam Shapiro
Liberty Heights
1999Movie
Van Kurtzman
Oxygen
1999Movie
Harry
The Early Show
1999TV
Self
Restaurant
1999Movie
Chris Calloway
Summer of Sam
1999Movie
Ritchie
Six Ways to Sunday
1999Movie
Arnie Finklestein
The Thin Red Line
1998Movie
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998Movie
Self
The View
1997TV
Self
The Undertaker's Wedding
1997Movie
Mario Bellini
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
1997Movie
Ben
Solo
1996Movie
Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Bullet
1996Movie
Ruby Stein
Ten Benny
1995Movie
Ray Diglovanni
Jailbreakers
1994Movie
Skinny
Angels in the Outfield
1994Movie
Danny Hemmerling
Rebel Highway
1994TV
Skinny
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993TV
Self - Guest
King of the Hill
1993Movie
Lester
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992TV
Self
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
1991Movie
Eddie
New York Stories
1989Movie
Mel
Annie McGuire
1988TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Home at Last
1988Movie
Billy
Saturday Night Live
1975TV
Self - Host, Self (archive footage)
The Oscars
1953TV
Self, Self - Presenter
Today
1952TV
Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self - Nominee
Family Blend
TV
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Movie
Self
Snake Island
Movie
Evel Knievel on Tour
Movie
Shelly Saltman
Last Dance
Movie
Elliot