
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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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