Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award, with nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people. Brody started his career in the early 1990s, taking roles in King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter, he also won the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. His other notable films include The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Blonde (2022). He has collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson numerous times, acting in The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). On television, Brody 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 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his respective roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014) and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).  On stage, Brody made his London theatre debut in 2024 and Broadway debut in 2025, portraying death row inmate Nick Yarris in the Lindsey Ferrentino play The Fear of 13 (2024), garnering a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for the former. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Adrien Brody, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2024The Brutalist — László Tóth
• 2023Asteroid City — Schubert Green
• 2023Fool's Paradise — Chad Luxt
• 2023Ghosted — Leveque
• 2023Manodrome — Dan
• Poker Face — Sterling Frost Jr.
• 2022Blonde — The Playwright
• 2022Clean — Clean, Producer, Original Music Composer, Writer
• 2022See How They Run — Leo Köpernick
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — Pat Riley
• Chapelwaite — Captain Charles Boone, Executive Producer
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Julian Cadazio
• 2018Air Strike — Steve
• Succession — Josh Aaronson
• 2018Who Will Write Our History? — Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
• 2017Bullet Head — Stacy
• 2016Manhattan Night — Porter Wren, Producer
• 2015Backtrack — Peter Bower
• 2015Boredom — Danny
• 2015Dragon Blade — Tiberius
• 2015Septembers of Shiraz — Isaac, Executive Producer
• 2015Stone Barn Castle — Self, Director, Producer
• 2015The Library Book — Desmond
• 2015The Mascot — Adam
• 2014American Heist — Frankie, Executive Producer
• Houdini — Harry Houdini
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Dmitri
• 2014Third Person — Sean
• 2013InAPPropriate Comedy — Flirty Harry, Additional Dialogue
• Peaky Blinders — Luca Changretta
• 2012Back to 1942 — Theodore Harold White
• 2011Detachment — Henry Barthes, Executive Producer
• 2011Midnight in Paris — Salvador Dalí
• 2010Giallo — Inspector Enzo Avolfi, Producer
• 2010High School — Psycho Ed
• 2010Predators — Royce
• 2010Predators: The Chosen
• 2010Splice — Clive
• 2010The Experiment — Travis
• 2010Wrecked — Man, Executive Producer
• 2009Fantastic Mr. Fox — Field Mouse (voice)
• 2009The Brothers Bloom — Bloom
• 2008A Matador's Mistress — Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
• 2008Cadillac Records — Leonard Chess
• 2007The Darjeeling Limited — Peter
• 2006Hollywoodland — Louis Simo
• 2006Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
• 2005King Kong — Jack Driscoll
• 2005The Jacket — Jack Starks
• 2004The Village — Noah Percy
• 2003A Sorta Fairytale — Arm
• 2003Love the Hard Way — Jack Grace
• 2003The Singing Detective — First Hood
• 2002Dummy — Steven Schoichet
• Icons
• 2002The Pianist — Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
• 2001The Affair of the Necklace — Count Nicolas De La Motte
• 2000Bread and Roses — Sam Shapiro
• 2000Harrison's Flowers — Kyle Morris
• 1999Liberty Heights — Van Kurtzman
• 1999Oxygen — Harry
• 1999Restaurant — Chris Calloway
• 1999Six Ways to Sunday — Arnie Finklestein
• 1999Summer of Sam — Ritchie
• 1998The Thin Red Line — Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
• 1997The Last Time I Committed Suicide — Ben
• 1997The Undertaker's Wedding — Mario Bellini
• 1996Bullet — Ruby Stein
• 1996Solo — Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
• 1995Ten Benny — Ray Diglovanni
• 1994Angels in the Outfield — Danny Hemmerling
• 1994Jailbreakers — Skinny
• Rebel Highway — Skinny
• 1993King of the Hill — Lester
• 1991The Boy Who Cried Bitch — Eddie
• 1989New York Stories — Mel
• Annie McGuire
• 1988Home at Last — Billy
• Evel Knievel on Tour — Shelly Saltman
• Family Blend
• Last Dance — Elliot
• Snake Island

Appearances as themselves (36)

• 2025KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody — Self / Traveler
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• 2021Trintignant by Trintignant — Self (archive footage)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2013Love, Marilyn — Self
• 2012Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir — Self (archive footage)
• 2010The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' — Self - Peter
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2007Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy — Self
• 2006Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' — Self
• 2006The Eighth Blunder of the World — Self
• 2005Deconstructing 'The Village' — Self
• 2005Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May — Self
• 2005King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries — Self
• 2004The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan — Self
• 2004The Present — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• Punk'd — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2001Ken and Rosa — Himself
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self (archive footage)
• The Oscars — Self, Self - Presenter
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn — Self