Adrien Brody

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 worlds 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 Polanskis war drama The Pianist 2002 and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbets 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 20222023 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors is on Wikipedia