Adrien Brody

Biography

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).

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

Peaky Blinders

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

All Movies (87)

• KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody2025 · as Self / Traveler
• The Brutalist2024 · as László Tóth
• Manodrome2023 · as Dan
• Asteroid City2023 · as Schubert Green
• Fool's Paradise2023 · as Chad Luxt
• Ghosted2023 · as Leveque
• Blonde2022 · as The Playwright
• See How They Run2022 · as Leo Köpernick
• Clean2022 · as Clean
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021 · as Julian Cadazio
• Trintignant by Trintignant2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Air Strike2018 · as Steve
• Who Will Write Our History?2018 · as Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
• Bullet Head2017 · as Stacy
• Manhattan Night2016 · as Porter Wren
• Septembers of Shiraz2015 · as Isaac
• Backtrack2015 · as Peter Bower
• The Mascot2015 · as Adam
• Boredom2015 · as Danny
• The Library Book2015 · as Desmond
• Stone Barn Castle2015 · as Self
• Dragon Blade2015 · as Tiberius
• American Heist2014 · as Frankie
• Third Person2014 · as Sean
• The Grand Budapest Hotel2014 · as Dmitri
• Love, Marilyn2013 · as Self
• InAPPropriate Comedy2013 · as Flirty Harry
• Back to 19422012 · as Theodore Harold White
• Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Midnight in Paris2011 · as Salvador Dalí
• Detachment2011 · as Henry Barthes
• The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'2010 · as Self - Peter
• The Experiment2010 · as Travis
• Predators2010 · as Royce
• High School2010 · as Psycho Ed
• Splice2010 · as Clive
• Wrecked2010 · as Man
• Giallo2010 · as Inspector Enzo Avolfi
• Predators: The Chosen2010
• Fantastic Mr. Fox2009 · as Field Mouse (voice)
• Cadillac Records2008 · as Leonard Chess
• The Brothers Bloom2008 · as Bloom
• A Matador's Mistress2008 · as Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
• The Darjeeling Limited2007 · as Peter
• Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy2007 · as Self
• Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'2006 · as Self
• The Eighth Blunder of the World2006 · as Self
• Hollywoodland2006 · as Louis Simo
• Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red2006
• King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries2005 · as Self
• King Kong2005 · as Jack Driscoll
• Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May2005 · as Self
• The Jacket2005 · as Jack Starks
• Deconstructing 'The Village'2005 · as Self
• The Present2004 · as Self
• The Village2004 · as Noah Percy
• The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan2004 · as Self
• The Singing Detective2003 · as First Hood
• A Sorta Fairytale2003 · as Arm
• Love the Hard Way2003 · as Jack Grace
• The Pianist2002 · as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
• Dummy2002 · as Steven Schoichet
• The Affair of the Necklace2001 · as Count Nicolas De La Motte
• Ken and Rosa2001 · as Himself
• Harrison's Flowers2000 · as Kyle Morris
• Bread and Roses2000 · as Sam Shapiro
• Liberty Heights1999 · as Van Kurtzman
• Oxygen1999 · as Harry
• Restaurant1999 · as Chris Calloway
• Summer of Sam1999 · as Ritchie
• Six Ways to Sunday1999 · as Arnie Finklestein
• The Thin Red Line1998 · as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
• Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs1998 · as Self
• The Undertaker's Wedding1997 · as Mario Bellini
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide1997 · as Ben
• Solo1996 · as Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
• Bullet1996 · as Ruby Stein
• Ten Benny1995 · as Ray Diglovanni
• Jailbreakers1994 · as Skinny
• Angels in the Outfield1994 · as Danny Hemmerling
• King of the Hill1993 · as Lester
• The Boy Who Cried Bitch1991 · as Eddie
• New York Stories1989 · as Mel
• Home at Last1988 · as Billy
• Evel Knievel on Tour— · as Shelly Saltman
• Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn— · as Self
• Last Dance— · as Elliot

All TV Shows (33)

• Poker Face2023 · as Sterling Frost Jr.
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg2022 · as Self
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty2022 · as Pat Riley
• Chapelwaite2021 · as Captain Charles Boone
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• Succession2018 · as Josh Aaronson
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden2015 · as Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• Houdini2014 · as Harry Houdini
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Peaky Blinders2013 · as Luca Changretta
• Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Punk'd2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Icons2002
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Rebel Highway1994 · as Skinny
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self
• Annie McGuire1988
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self - Presenter
• Today1952 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee