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