Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1973-04-14
- Born Place: Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Height:
6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)
Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody is an acclaimed American actor known for his intense dramatic performances and a career spanning three decades in both independent films and major studio productions. Born on April 14, 1973, in Queens, New York, to photographer Sylvia Plachy and history professor Elliot Brody, he began his acting training as a child, attending LaGuardia High School and later making his breakthrough in the early 1990s with films like Steven Soderbergh's King of the Hill and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. His career-defining moment came in 2002 when he portrayed Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's World War II drama, The Pianist, a role that earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the youngest winner ever in that category at age 29. Following this success, his filmography grew to include major roles in Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011). Brody is also a frequent and celebrated collaborator of director Wes Anderson, appearing in his distinctive films such as The Darjeeling Limited, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, and Asteroid City. In television, he has garnered praise and Emmy nominations for playing Harry Houdini in the miniseries Houdini and Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession, and he also had a memorable recurring role as the antagonist Luca Changretta in the BBC series Peaky Blinders. More recently, Brody achieved a rare feat by winning his second Academy Award for Best Actor for the 2024 film The Brutalist.
Awards :
32 wins & 74 nominations
