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.
Can Adrien Brody speak Polish?
Brody’s father is of Polish-Jewish descent; Brody’s mother, who was raised Catholic, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and is the daughter of a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat father and a Czech-Jewish mother.
He learned Polish and Hungarian from his father and mother respectfully but he is not fluent in these languages. As Adrien Brody grow up he learned French and Spanish because these languages are widely spoken in the United States after English.
Brody committed himself wholly, learning to play Chopin and speak Polish, losing thirty pounds to shoot the final ghetto scenes, when Szpilman was starving nearly to death, working for months in an abandoned Soviet Army barracks in Jüterbog, a former East German town outside Berlin