“I love the theatre, and although I have not been on the stage in many years, I have been searching for the right material and this was so clearly the one.”
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Adrien Brody
Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
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Born 14 April 1973 · Q104514
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 22,564 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 3,483, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Hyphens to en dashes
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The Guardian: The Fear of 13 review – Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson lead sturdy, safe Broadway transfer
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On Broadway acting alongside Tessa Thompson at the James Earl Jones Theatre
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2025· 7 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Brutalist (2025).
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The Guardian: Adrien Brody breaks record for longest ever Oscar acceptance speech
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The Guardian: Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist
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The Guardian: Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for The Brutalist
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The Guardian: Halle Berry ‘pays back’ Adrien Brody for 2003 Oscars kiss – with a red-carpet kiss
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Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people
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2024· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for The Brutalist (2024).
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That Brody suffers post-traumatic stress disorder from the extreme weight loss he endured for The Pianist in 2002
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And Broadway debut in 2025 portraying 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 for the former
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Brody starred in Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, replacing Joel Edgerton in the lead role and joining an ensemble cast consisting of Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Laird, and Peter Polycarpou
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2021· 1 entry
Received the Vanguard Award at SCAD's Savannah Film Festival
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2019· 1 entry
Brody left Paradigm to sign with CAA Creative Artists Agency
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2017· 3 entries
Received the Leopard Club Award at the Locarno Festival
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But its release has been held up by legal challenges
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It was announced that he would join the cast of the fourth season of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders
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2015· 2 entries
Starred as Tiberius in the Chinese film Dragon Blade, which grossed $54
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“The writing just spoke to me. I often follow my instincts when I am utterly moved by the text.”
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2014· 1 entry
Brody collaborated again with Wes Anderson in the Academy Award–winning The Grand Budapest Hotel, where he played the villain Dmitri
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2012· 1 entry
Brody made his debut as a runway model for Prada Men Fall/Winter 2012 show
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2011· 1 entry
Brody starred in a Stella Artois beer commercial called "Crying Jean" that premiered right after half-time of Super Bowl XLV as part of Stella's "She Is a Thing of Beauty" campaign
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2010· 4 entries
Brody sued makers of the film Giallo, alleging they failed to pay his full salary
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Played the star role of Royce in Predators (a sequel to the original Predator), directed by Nimród Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez
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The band Lemon Demon released the song "BRODYQUEST", which became popular online
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In 2010, Brody sued makers of the film Giallo, alleging they failed to pay his full salary.
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2009· 2 entries
Starred in Splice, a science-fiction film written and directed by Vincenzo Natali
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Signed the Free Roman Polanski petition
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble for Cadillac Records (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Brody confirmed speculation that he was interested in playing the role of The Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight, and also met with director Christopher Nolan
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2003· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Pianist (2003).
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Awarded César Award for Best Actor for The Pianist (2003).
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But originally shot in 2000, just prior to his work in The Pianist), he portrayed Steven Schoichet, a socially awkward aspiring ventriloquist in pursuit of a love interest (his employment counsellor, played by Vera Farmi
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Brody became the subject of significant attention while receiving his Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist when he passionately kissed the presenter, actress Halle Berry
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for The Pianist (2002).
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Awarded Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for The Pianist (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture for The Thin Red Line (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Starred alongside Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke in Bullet
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1993· 1 entry
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1993).
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1992· 2 entries
Brody was seriously injured in a motorcycle collision in which he was thrown over a car and crashed headfirst into a crosswalk
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In 1992, Brody was seriously injured in a motorcycle collision in which he was thrown over a car and crashed headfirst into a crosswalk.
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1973· 2 entries
Born 1973-04-14.
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In Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, the son of Sylvia Plachy, a photographer, and Elliot Brody, a retired history professor and painter
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1958· 1 entry
To which she had fled with her parents following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and having lost most of her relatives to the Holocaust; she was raised Catholic, and is the daughter of a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat fa
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