Adrien Brody

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice for his portrayal of Holocaust survivors: 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). The former made him the category's youngest winner, at age 29. He has received several other accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy Film Award with nominations for an Laurence Olivier Award and three Primetime Emmy 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. Provided by Wikipedia