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Adrien Brody
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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 British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.

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Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor, film actor, voice actor, and film producer. Born in New York City, New York, in 1973, he began his work period in 1988. He is educated at Queens College, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Stony Brook University. He resides in Queens and Woodhaven.

Brody has received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture. He has also been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He is a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.

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Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) 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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  • KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody — Self / Traveler2025
  • The Brutalist — László Tóth2024
  • Ghosted — Leveque2023
  • Fool's Paradise — Chad Luxt2023
  • Manodrome — Dan2023
  • Asteroid City — Schubert Green2023
  • Poker Face — Sterling Frost Jr.2023
  • Clean — Clean2022
  • Blonde — The Playwright2022
  • See How They Run — Leo Köpernick2022

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New York City
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television actor
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Stony Brook University
Languages spoken
English language
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English language
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Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and visual artist. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.

Brody started his career in the early 1990s, appearing in a number of roles in his early career, including King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter he also won the BAFTA Award, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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