Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody
Brody in 2023
Born	Adrien Nicholas Brody (1973-04-14) April 14, 1973 (age 51) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	City University of New York
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Partner	Elsa Pataky (2006–2009)
Mother	Sylvia Plachy

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973)^[1] is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film.

Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line (1998), Harrison's Flowers (2000), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), See How They Run (2022), and The Brutalist (2024). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in his films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). He portrayed Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominik's Blonde (2022).

In television, he 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 his roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).