Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor and producer. He was born on April 14, 1973. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski’s 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.
Taking acting classes as a child, by age thirteen, he appeared in an Off-Broadway play and a PBS television film. After appearing in Bullet in 1996 with Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke, Brody hovered on the brink of stardom, receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his role in the 1998 film Restaurant.
In 2017, it was announced that he would join the cast of the fourth season of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders. On August 4, 2017, he received the Leopard Club Award at the Locarno Festival. The Leopard Club Award pays homage to a major film personality whose work has made a lasting impact on the collective imagination. Brody is the second male American actor after Christopher Lambert to receive the César Award for Best Actor.
Adrien Brody Movies and Tv Shows
Film
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | New York Stories | Mel | |
| 1991 | The Boy Who Cried Bitch | Eddie | |
| 1993 | King of the Hill | Lester Silverstone | |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | Danny Hemmerling | |
| 1995 | Ten Benny | Ray Diglovanni | |
| 1996 | Bullet | Ruby Stein | |
| Solo | Dr. Bill Stewart | ||
| 1997 | The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Ben | |
| The Undertaker’s Wedding | Mario Bellini | ||
| Six Ways to Sunday | Arnie Finklestein | ||
| 1998 | Restaurant | Chris Calloway | |
| The Thin Red Line | Cpl. Geoffrey Fife | ||
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Richie Tringale | |
| Oxygen | Harry Houdini | ||
| Liberty Heights | Van Kurtzman | ||
| 2000 | Bread and Roses | Sam Shapiro | |
| Harrison’s Flowers | Kyle Morris | ||
| 2001 | Love the Hard Way | Jack Grace | |
| The Affair of the Necklace | Count Nicolas De La Motte | ||
| 2002 | Dummy | Steven Schoichet | |
| The Pianist | Władysław Szpilman | ||
| 2003 | The Singing Detective | First Hood | |
| 2004 | The Village | Noah Percy | |
| 2005 | The Jacket | Jack Starks | |
| King Kong | Jack Driscoll | ||
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Louis Simo | |
| 2007 | The Darjeeling Limited | Peter Whitman | |
| 2008 | Manolete | Manuel “Manolete” Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez | |
| The Brothers Bloom | Bloom | ||
| Cadillac Records | Leonard Chess | ||
| 2009 | Giallo | Inspector Enzo Lavia | |
| Splice | Clive Nicoli | ||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Rickity | ||
| 2010 | High School | Edward “Psycho Ed” Highbaugh | |
| Predators | Royce | ||
| The Experiment | Travis Cacksmackberg | ||
| Wrecked | Man | ||
| 2011 | Detachment | Henry Barthes | |
| Midnight in Paris | Salvador Dalí | ||
| 2012 | Back to 1942 | Theodore White | |
| 2013 | Inappropriate Comedy | Flirty Harry | |
| Third Person | Scott Lowry | ||
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis | |
| American Heist | Frankie Kelly | ||
| 2015 | Dragon Blade | Tiberius | |
| Stone Barn Castle | — | ||
| Backtrack | Peter Bower | ||
| Septembers of Shiraz | Isaac Amin | ||
| 2016 | Manhattan Night | Porter Wren | |
| 2017 | Bullet Head | Stacy | |
| 2018 | Air Strike | Steve | |
| 2021 | Clean | Clean | |
| The French Dispatch | Julien Cadazio | ||
| 2022 | See How They Run | Leo Köpernick | |
| Blonde | Arthur Miller | ||
| TBA | Untitled Charlie Day film | ||
| Asteroid City | |||
| Ghosted |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Home at Last | Billy | |
| Annie McGuire | Lenny McGuire | ||
| 1994 | Rebel Highway | Skinny | |
| 1996 | Bullet Hearts | Chuckie Bragg | |
| 1999 | Split Screen | Harry | |
| 2003 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | |
| 2014 | Houdini | Harry Houdini | |
| 2015 | Breakthrough | Narrator | |
| 2016 | Dice | Himself | |
| 2017 | Peaky Blinders | Luca Changretta | |
| 2021 | Chapelwaite | Captain Charles Boone | |
| Succession | Josh Aaronson | ||
| 2022 | Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty | Pat Riley |
Adrien Brody Age
49 years
Adrien Brody Height
1.85 m
Adrien Brody Ethnicity
75% Ashkenazi Jewish
25% Hungarian