Adrien Brody

Biography

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) 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. For his role as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in The Brutalist (2024), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and earned his second Academy Award Nomination and subsequent win for Best Actor.

Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line(1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), and See How They Run(2022). 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).

On 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).

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CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Adrien Brody

Echoes in the Mind’s Labyrinth: Unraveling The Jacket’s Temporal Tapestry

on The Jacket | Jul 15, 2025

In The Jacket (2005), director John Maybury weaves a haunting, cerebral tapestry that entwines psychological thriller with metaphysical inquiry, creating a film that lingers like a half-remembered dre... Read more

A Love Letter to Storytelling That Forgets to Beat for Its Readers

on The French Dispatch | Jun 15, 2025

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is a meticulously crafted jewel box of a film so precise in its construction that you half-expect it to chime like a grandfather clock when opened. A pastiche of mid... Read more

The Silent Cadence of Survival: The Pianist as a Haunting Ode to Resilience

on The Pianist | Jun 07, 2025

Roman Polanski’s The Pianist (2002) is a searing, soul-stirring portrait of survival amid the Holocaust’s horrors, told through the eyes of W?adys?aw Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist whose life becom... Read more

"Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece." This poignant tagline encapsulates the heart and harrowing journey of "The Pianist."

on The Pianist | May 31, 2025

Roman Polanski’s The Pianist isn’t merely a historical drama set during World War II; it’s a deeply personal and profoundly moving account of survival against unimaginable brutality, seen through the ... Read more