Book Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody is an American actor celebrated for intense, emotionally fearless performances and a rare place in Academy Award history. He is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor, first for playing pianist Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist (2002), which made him the youngest-ever winner in the category at 29, and again for architect László Tóth in The Brutalist (2024). The Pianist also brought him France's César Award, and The Brutalist earned him the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor. His early work includes King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998) and Summer of Sam (1999), followed by The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blonde (2022). He is a frequent Wes Anderson collaborator, appearing in The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. On television he played Luca Changretta in Peaky Blinders and Pat Riley in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and earned an Emmy nomination as Houdini. Time named him to the Time 100 in 2025.