Adrien Brody
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), T
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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Born
Apr 14, 1973
Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
89 acting
12 crew
Popularity
4.9
Known For
The Brutalist
2024
as László Tóth
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Dmitri
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
as Julian Cadazio
The Pianist
2002
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
as Peter
The Jacket
2005
as Jack Starks
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Field Mouse (voice)
King Kong
2005
as Jack Driscoll
Predators
2010
as Royce
The Village
2004
as Noah Percy
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