Adrien Brody
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 14, 1973
- Birthplace
- Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter, he also won the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. 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. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Adrien Brody, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- Snake Island
Snake Island TBA
Actor
- Last Dance
Last Dance TBA
as Elliot
- Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn TBA
as Self
- Evel Knievel on Tour
Evel Knievel on Tour TBA
as Shelly Saltman
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody 2025
as Self / Traveler
The Brutalist 2024
as László Tóth
Manodrome 2023
as Dan
Asteroid City 2023
as Schubert Green
Fool's Paradise 2023
as Chad Luxt
Ghosted 2023
as Leveque
Blonde 2022
as The Playwright
See How They Run 2022
as Leo Köpernick
Clean 2022
as Clean, Producer, Original Music Composer, Writer
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun 2021
as Julian Cadazio
Trintignant by Trintignant 2021
as Self (archive footage)
Air Strike 2018
as Steve
Who Will Write Our History? 2018
as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
Bullet Head 2017
as Stacy
Manhattan Night 2016
as Porter Wren, Producer
Septembers of Shiraz 2015
as Isaac, Executive Producer
Backtrack 2015
as Peter Bower
- The Library Book
The Library Book 2015
as Desmond
- Boredom
Boredom 2015
as Danny
The Mascot 2015
as Adam
- Stone Barn Castle
Stone Barn Castle 2015
as Self, Director, Producer
Dragon Blade 2015
as Tiberius
American Heist 2014
as Frankie, Executive Producer
Third Person 2014
as Sean
The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014
as Dmitri
Love, Marilyn 2013
as Self
InAPPropriate Comedy 2013
as Flirty Harry, Additional Dialogue
Back to 1942 2012
as Theodore Harold White
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir 2012
as Self (archive footage)
Midnight in Paris 2011
as Salvador Dalí
Detachment 2011
as Henry Barthes, Executive Producer
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' 2010
as Self - Peter
The Experiment 2010
as Travis
Predators 2010
as Royce
Splice 2010
as Clive Nicoli
High School 2010
as Psycho Ed
Wrecked 2010
as Man, Executive Producer
Giallo 2010
as Inspector Enzo Avolfi, Producer
Predators: The Chosen 2010
Actor
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
as Field Mouse (voice)
The Brothers Bloom 2009
as Bloom
Cadillac Records 2008
as Leonard Chess
A Matador's Mistress 2008
as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
The Darjeeling Limited 2007
as Peter
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy 2007
as Self
- The Eighth Blunder of the World
The Eighth Blunder of the World 2006
as Self
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' 2006
as Self
Hollywoodland 2006
as Louis Simo
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red 2006
Actor
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries 2005
as Self
King Kong 2005
as Jack Driscoll
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May 2005
as Self
The Jacket 2005
as Jack Starks
Deconstructing 'The Village' 2005
as Self
The Present 2004
as Self
The Village 2004
as Noah Percy
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan 2004
as Self
The Singing Detective 2003
as First Hood
A Sorta Fairytale 2003
as Arm
Love the Hard Way 2003
as Jack Grace
The Pianist 2002
as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
Dummy 2002
as Steven Schoichet
The Affair of the Necklace 2001
as Count Nicolas De La Motte
Ken and Rosa 2001
as Himself
Harrison's Flowers 2000
as Kyle Morris
Bread and Roses 2000
as Sam Shapiro
Liberty Heights 1999
as Van Kurtzman
Oxygen 1999
as Harry
Restaurant 1999
as Chris Calloway
Summer of Sam 1999
as Ritchie
Six Ways to Sunday 1999
as Arnie Finklestein
The Thin Red Line 1998
as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs 1998
as Self
The Undertaker's Wedding 1997
as Mario Bellini
The Last Time I Committed Suicide 1997
as Ben
Solo 1996
as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet 1996
as Ruby Stein
Ten Benny 1995
as Ray Diglovanni
Jailbreakers 1994
as Skinny
Angels in the Outfield 1994
as Danny Hemmerling
King of the Hill 1993
as Lester
The Boy Who Cried Bitch 1991
as Eddie
New York Stories 1989
as Mel
Home at Last 1988
as Billy
Credits from TMDB.