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Adrien Brody

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).

Filmography

2024
The Brutalist

as László Tóth

Movie
2023
Asteroid City

as Schubert Green

Movie
2023
Ghosted

as Leveque

Movie
2022
See How They Run

as Leo Köpernick

Movie
2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

as Julian Cadazio

Movie
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel

as Dmitri

Movie
2010
Predators

as Royce

Movie
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Field Mouse (voice)

Movie
2005
King Kong

as Jack Driscoll

Movie
2005
The Jacket

as Jack Starks

Movie
2002
The Pianist

as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman

Movie
1998
The Thin Red Line

as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife

Movie
2023
Poker Face

as Sterling Frost Jr.

TV Show
2013
Peaky Blinders

as Luca Changretta

TV Show