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