Adrien Brody
Acting • Born 1973-04-14
Biography
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).
Filmography
120 credits
King Kong
Movie • 2005
Jack Driscoll
The Pianist
Movie • 2002
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Hollywoodland
Movie • 2006
Louis Simo
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Movie • 2009
Field Mouse (voice)
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
Movie • 2010
Self - Peter
The Darjeeling Limited
Movie • 2007
Peter
The Singing Detective
Movie • 2003
First Hood
The Brothers Bloom
Movie • 2008
Bloom
The Village
Movie • 2004
Noah Percy
Angels in the Outfield
Movie • 1994
Danny Hemmerling
Harrison's Flowers
Movie • 2000
Kyle Morris
The Thin Red Line
Movie • 1998
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
King of the Hill
Movie • 1993
Lester
Liberty Heights
Movie • 1999
Van Kurtzman
High School
Movie • 2010
Psycho Ed
The Jacket
Movie • 2005
Jack Starks
Predators
Movie • 2010
Royce
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Movie • 1997
Ben
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
Movie • 2005
Self
Giallo
Movie • 2010
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
Solo
Movie • 1996
Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet
Movie • 1996
Ruby Stein
Cadillac Records
Movie • 2008
Leonard Chess
The Brutalist
Movie • 2024
László Tóth
The Experiment
Movie • 2010
Travis
Bread and Roses
Movie • 2000
Sam Shapiro
Splice
Movie • 2010
Clive
A Matador's Mistress
Movie • 2008
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
Love the Hard Way
Movie • 2003
Jack Grace
Six Ways to Sunday
Movie • 1999
Arnie Finklestein
Dummy
Movie • 2002
Steven Schoichet
Oxygen
Movie • 1999
Harry
Wrecked
Movie • 2010
Man
Trintignant by Trintignant
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie • 2001
Count Nicolas De La Motte
Restaurant
Movie • 2000
Chris Calloway
New York Stories
Movie • 1989
Mel
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Movie • 2005
Self
Detachment
Movie • 2011
Henry Barthes
Ghosted
Movie • 2023
Leveque
Midnight in Paris
Movie • 2011
Salvador Dalí
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Movie • 2006
Self
Love, Marilyn
Movie • 2013
Self
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie • 2014
Dmitri
Ten Benny
Movie • 1995
Ray Diglovanni
InAPPropriate Comedy
Movie • 2013
Flirty Harry
Back to 1942
Movie • 2012
Theodore Harold White
Third Person
Movie • 2014
Sean
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
Movie • 2007
Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Movie • 1998
Self
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
Movie • 1991
Eddie
American Heist
Movie • 2014
Frankie
Clean
Movie • 2022
Clean
The Undertaker's Wedding
Movie • 1997
Mario Bellini
The Present
Movie • 2004
Self
Dragon Blade
Movie • 2015
Tiberius
Manhattan Night
Movie • 2016
Porter Wren
Stone Barn Castle
Movie • 2015
Self
Backtrack
Movie • 2015
Peter Bower
A Sorta Fairytale
Movie • 2003
Arm
Septembers of Shiraz
Movie • 2015
Isaac
Home at Last
Movie • 1988
Billy
The Mascot
Movie • 2015
Adam
Boredom
Movie • 2015
Danny
The Library Book
Movie • 2015
Desmond
Ken and Rosa
Movie • 2001
Himself
Summer of Sam
Movie • 1999
Ritchie
Bullet Head
Movie • 2017
Stacy
Jailbreakers
Movie • 1994
Skinny
Air Strike
Movie • 2018
Steve
Fool's Paradise
Movie • 2023
Chad Luxt
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie • 2021
Julian Cadazio
Blonde
Movie • 2022
The Playwright
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
Movie • 2006
The Eighth Blunder of the World
Movie • 2006
Self
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Movie • 2005
Self
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
Movie • 2004
Self
See How They Run
Movie • 2022
Leo Köpernick
Manodrome
Movie • 2023
Dan
Asteroid City
Movie • 2023
Schubert Green
Evel Knievel on Tour
Movie
Shelly Saltman
Kismet
Movie • 2025
Self
Emperor
Movie • 2026
Charles V - The Emperor
Who Will Write Our History?
Movie • 2018
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Movie
Self
Predators: The Chosen
Movie • 2010
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Punk'd
TV • 2003
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Icons
TV • 2002
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Chapelwaite
TV • 2021
Captain Charles Boone
Annie McGuire
TV • 1988
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Houdini
TV • 2014
Harry Houdini
Succession
TV • 2018
Josh Aaronson
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
TV • 2022
Pat Riley
Peaky Blinders
TV • 2013
Luca Changretta
Poker Face
TV • 2023
Sterling Frost Jr.
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Rebel Highway
TV • 1994
Skinny
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self - Presenter