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