Adrien Brody
71 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 14, 1973 (age 53)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Byron Deidra · Adrien Nicholas Brody · Эдриан Броуди
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.
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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
Adrien Brody: movies and TV shows
Acting (81)
- Upcoming Evel Knievel on Tour
as Shelly Saltman
- Upcoming Last Dance
as Elliot
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2024 The Brutalist
as László Tóth
- 2023 Manodrome
as Dan
- 2023 Asteroid City
as Schubert Green
- 2023 Fool's Paradise
as Chad Luxt
- 2023 Ghosted
as Leveque
- 2023
- 2022 Blonde
as The Playwright
- 2022 See How They Run
as Leo Köpernick
- 2022
- 2022 Clean
as Clean
- 2021 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Julian Cadazio
- 2021
- 2018 Air Strike
as Steve
- 2018 Who Will Write Our History?
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
- 2018
- 2017 Bullet Head
as Stacy
- 2016 Manhattan Night
as Porter Wren
- 2015 Septembers of Shiraz
as Isaac
- 2015 Backtrack
as Peter Bower
- 2015 The Mascot
as Adam
- 2015 The Library Book
as Desmond
- 2015 Boredom
as Danny
- 2015 Dragon Blade
as Tiberius
- 2014 American Heist
as Frankie
- 2014
- 2014 Third Person
as Sean
- 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Dmitri
- 2013
- 2013 InAPPropriate Comedy
as Flirty Harry
- 2012 Back to 1942
as Theodore Harold White
- 2011 Midnight in Paris
as Salvador Dalí
- 2011 Detachment
as Henry Barthes
- 2010 The Experiment
as Travis
- 2010 Predators
as Royce
- 2010 High School
as Psycho Ed
- 2010 Splice
as Clive
- 2010 Wrecked
as Man
- 2010 Giallo
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
- 2010
- 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Field Mouse (voice)
- 2009 The Brothers Bloom
as Bloom
- 2008 Cadillac Records
as Leonard Chess
- 2008 A Matador's Mistress
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
- 2007 The Darjeeling Limited
as Peter
- 2006 Hollywoodland
as Louis Simo
- 2006
- 2005 King Kong
as Jack Driscoll
- 2005 The Jacket
as Jack Starks
- 2004 The Village
as Noah Percy
- 2003 The Singing Detective
as First Hood
- 2003 A Sorta Fairytale
as Arm
- 2003 Love the Hard Way
as Jack Grace
- 2002 The Pianist
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
- 2002 Dummy
as Steven Schoichet
- 2002
- 2001 The Affair of the Necklace
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
- 2000 Harrison's Flowers
as Kyle Morris
- 2000 Bread and Roses
as Sam Shapiro
- 1999 Liberty Heights
as Van Kurtzman
- 1999 Oxygen
as Harry
- 1999 Restaurant
as Chris Calloway
- 1999 Summer of Sam
as Ritchie
- 1999 Six Ways to Sunday
as Arnie Finklestein
- 1998 The Thin Red Line
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
- 1997 The Undertaker's Wedding
as Mario Bellini
- 1997
- 1996 Solo
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
- 1996 Bullet
as Ruby Stein
- 1995 Ten Benny
as Ray Diglovanni
- 1994 Jailbreakers
as Skinny
- 1994 Angels in the Outfield
as Danny Hemmerling
- 1994
- 1993 King of the Hill
as Lester
- 1991 The Boy Who Cried Bitch
as Eddie
- 1989 New York Stories
as Mel
- 1988
- 1988 Home at Last
as Billy
Behind the camera (10)
- 2022 Clean
Producer, Original Music Composer, Writer
- 2021
- 2016 Manhattan Night
Producer
- 2015 Septembers of Shiraz
Executive Producer
- 2015 Stone Barn Castle
Director, Producer
- 2014 American Heist
Executive Producer
- 2013 InAPPropriate Comedy
Additional Dialogue
- 2011 Detachment
Executive Producer
- 2010 Wrecked
Executive Producer
- 2010 Giallo
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (36)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
1 episode
- 2021
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2 episodes
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2 episodes
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
2 episodes
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2 episodes
- 2013
- 2012
- 2010
- 2009 Live from Studio Five
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2003 Punk'd
1 episode
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2 episodes
- 2001
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1998
- 1997 The View
2 episodes
- 1996 The Daily Show
3 episodes
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
3 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
4 episodes
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2 episodes
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
4 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode