Adrien Brody

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) becoming the youngest actor to win the award at age 29. Brody received a second win in the same category for his role as Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024). He has received several other accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award with nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Adrien Brody's other films credits include King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Detachment (2011), and Blonde (2022). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, acting in his films 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 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for such roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).

On stage, Adrien Brody made his London theatre debut as 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.