
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).

King Kong
2005 · as Jack Driscoll

The Pianist
2002 · as Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · as Dmitri

Predators
2010 · as Royce

The Brutalist
2024 · as László Tóth

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · as Field Mouse (voice)

Ghosted
2023 · as Leveque

The Thin Red Line
1998 · as Cpl. Geoffrey Fife

Asteroid City
2023 · as Schubert Green

Splice
2010 · as Clive

Blonde
2022 · as The Playwright

Midnight in Paris
2011 · as Salvador Dalí

Detachment
2011 · as Henry Barthes

The Village
2004 · as Noah Percy

Cadillac Records
2008 · as Leonard Chess

The Jacket
2005 · as Jack Starks

The Darjeeling Limited
2007 · as Peter

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · as Julian Cadazio