Adrien Brody
Acting
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).
TV Shows(29)
Poker Face
Sterling Frost Jr.
2023
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self
2022
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Pat Riley
2022
Chapelwaite
Captain Charles Boone
2021
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Succession
Josh Aaronson
2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Houdini
Harry Houdini
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Peaky Blinders
Luca Changretta
2013
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Punk'd
Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
Icons
2002
The Early Show
Self
1999
The View
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Rebel Highway
Skinny
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
Annie McGuire
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(86)
Kismet
Self
2025
The Brutalist
László Tóth
2024
Manodrome
Dan
2023
Asteroid City
Schubert Green
2023
Fool's Paradise
Chad Luxt
2023
Ghosted
Leveque
2023
Blonde
The Playwright
2022
See How They Run
Leo Köpernick
2022
Clean
Clean
2022
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Julian Cadazio
2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
2021
Air Strike
Steve
2018
Who Will Write Our History?
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
2018
Bullet Head
Stacy
2017
Manhattan Night
Porter Wren
2016
Septembers of Shiraz
Isaac
2015
Backtrack
Peter Bower
2015
The Mascot
Adam
2015
The Library Book
Desmond
2015
Boredom
Danny
2015
Stone Barn Castle
Self
2015
Dragon Blade
Tiberius
2015
American Heist
Frankie
2014
Third Person
Sean
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dmitri
2014
Love, Marilyn
Self
2013
InAPPropriate Comedy
Flirty Harry
2013
Back to 1942
Theodore Harold White
2012
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Self (archive footage)
2012
Midnight in Paris
Salvador Dalí
2011
Detachment
Henry Barthes
2011
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
Self - Peter
2010
The Experiment
Travis
2010
Predators
Royce
2010
High School
Psycho Ed
2010
Splice
Clive
2010
Wrecked
Man
2010
Giallo
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
2010
Predators: The Chosen
2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Field Mouse (voice)
2009
Cadillac Records
Leonard Chess
2008
The Brothers Bloom
Bloom
2008
A Matador's Mistress
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
2008
The Darjeeling Limited
Peter
2007
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
Self
2007
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Self
2006
The Eighth Blunder of the World
Self
2006
Hollywoodland
Louis Simo
2006
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Self
2005
King Kong
Jack Driscoll
2005
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
Self
2005
The Jacket
Jack Starks
2005
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
2005
The Present
Self
2004
The Village
Noah Percy
2004
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
Self
2004
The Singing Detective
First Hood
2003
A Sorta Fairytale
Arm
2003
Love the Hard Way
Jack Grace
2003
The Pianist
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
2002
Dummy
Steven Schoichet
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
Count Nicolas De La Motte
2001
Ken and Rosa
Himself
2001
Harrison's Flowers
Kyle Morris
2000
Bread and Roses
Sam Shapiro
2000
Restaurant
Chris Calloway
2000
Liberty Heights
Van Kurtzman
1999
Oxygen
Harry
1999
Summer of Sam
Ritchie
1999
Six Ways to Sunday
Arnie Finklestein
1999
The Thin Red Line
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
1998
The Undertaker's Wedding
Mario Bellini
1997
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Ben
1997
Solo
Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
1996
Bullet
Ruby Stein
1996
Ten Benny
Ray Diglovanni
1995
Jailbreakers
Skinny
1994
Angels in the Outfield
Danny Hemmerling
1994
King of the Hill
Lester
1993
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
Eddie
1991
New York Stories
Mel
1989
Home at Last
Billy
1988
Evel Knievel on Tour
Shelly Saltman
Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Self