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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).

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From Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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The Pianist 2002
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
King Kong 2005
Jack Driscoll
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009
Field Mouse (voice)
The Thin Red Line 1998
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
Asteroid City 2023
Schubert Green
Detachment 2011
Henry Barthes, Executive Producer
The Jacket 2005
Jack Starks
Blonde 2022
The Playwright

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2025 The Bookie & the Bruiser as Rivner

2025 The Salamander Lives Twice

2025 Evel Knievel on Tour as Shelly Saltman

2024 The Brutalist as László Tóth

2023 Manodrome as Dan

2023 Asteroid City as Schubert Green

2023 Fool's Paradise as Chad Luxt

2023 Ghosted as Leveque

2022 Blonde as The Playwright

2022 See How They Run as Leo Köpernick

2022 Clean as Clean Writer, Producer, Original Music Composer

2021 The French Dispatch as Julian Cadazio

2021 Trintignant by Trintignant as Self (archive footage)

2018 Air Strike as Steve

2017 Bullet Head as Stacy

2016 Manhattan Night as Porter Wren Producer

2015 Septembers of Shiraz as Isaac

2015 Backtrack as Peter Bower

2015 Boredom as Danny

2015 The Mascot as Adam

2015 The Library Book as Desmond

2015 Stone Barn Castle as Self Director, Producer

2015 Dragon Blade as Tiberius

2014 American Heist as Frankie

2014 Third Person as Sean

2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Dmitri

2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013 Love, Marilyn as Self

2013 InAPPropriate Comedy as Flirty Harry

2012 Back to 1942 as Theodore Harold White

2011 Midnight in Paris as Salvador Dalí

2011 Detachment as Henry Barthes Executive Producer

2010 Predators: The Chosen as Royce

2010 The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' as Self - Peter

2010 The Experiment as Travis

2010 Predators as Royce

2010 Splice as Clive

2010 High School as Psycho Ed

2010 Wrecked as Man Executive Producer

2010 Giallo as Inspector Enzo Avolfi Producer

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Field Mouse (voice)

2008 Cadillac Records as Leonard Chess

2008 The Brothers Bloom as Bloom

2008 A Matador's Mistress as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"

2007 The Darjeeling Limited as Peter

2007 Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy as Self

2006 The Eighth Blunder of the World as Self

2006 Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self

2006 Hollywoodland as Louis Simo

2006 Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red

2005 King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries as Self

2005 King Kong as Jack Driscoll

2005 Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May as Self

2005 The Jacket as Jack Starks

2005 Deconstructing 'The Village' as Self

2004 The Present as Self

2004 The Village as Noah Percy

2004 The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan as Self

2003 The Singing Detective as First Hood

2003 A Sorta Fairytale as Arm

2002 The Pianist as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman

2002 Dummy as Steven Schoichet

2002 Love the Hard Way as Jack Grace

2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Count Nicolas De La Motte

2001 Ken and Rosa as Himself

2000 Harrison's Flowers as Kyle Morris

2000 Bread and Roses as Sam Shapiro

2000 Restaurant as Chris Calloway

1999 Liberty Heights as Van Kurtzman

1999 Oxygen as Harry

1999 Summer of Sam as Ritchie

1999 Six Ways to Sunday as Arnie Finklestein

1998 The Thin Red Line as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife

1998 Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self

1997 The Last Time I Committed Suicide as Ben

1997 The Undertaker's Wedding as Mario Bellini

1996 Solo as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer

1996 Bullet as Ruby Stein

1995 Ten Benny as Ray Diglovanni

1994 Jailbreakers as Skinny

1994 Angels in the Outfield as Danny Hemmerling

1993 King of the Hill as Lester

1991 The Boy Who Cried Bitch as Eddie

1989 New York Stories as Mel

1988 Home at Last as Billy

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6.89 Music 3

6.78 War 5

6.68 Fantasy 4

6.60 Adventure 6

6.49 History 7

6.34 Romance 9

6.20 Drama 45

6.18 Comedy 21

6.17 Documentary 10

6.12 TV Movie 6

6.04 Science Fiction 6

6.02 Family 3

5.89 Action 11

5.78 Thriller 17

5.73 Mystery 11

5.59 Crime 12

5.16 Horror 5