Cast & creator
Adrien Brody
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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. Brody started his career in the early 1990s, taking roles in 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 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. His other notable films include The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Blonde (2022). He has collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson numerous times, acting in The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City (2023). On television, Brody 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 nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for his respective roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014) and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021). On stage, Brody made his London theatre debut in 2024 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. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Adrien Brody, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Byron Deidra, Adrien Nicholas Brody, Эдриан Броуди
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1944–2025 · acting roles
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
2019
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975Saturday Night Live
Self (archive footage)
1975
The View
Self
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Peaky Blinders
Luca Changretta
2013
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Succession
Josh Aaronson
2018
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self
2022
The Brutalist
László Tóth
2024
Punk'd
Self
2003
The Oscars
Self
1953The Oscars
Self - Presenter
1953
Today
Self
1952
Poker Face
Sterling Frost Jr.
2023
The Pianist
Władysław 'Władek' Szpilman
2002
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Pat Riley
2022
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dmitri
2014
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Field Mouse (voice)
2009
King Kong
Jack Driscoll
2005
Rebel Highway
Skinny
1994
The Village
Noah Percy
2004
The Thin Red Line
Cpl. Geoffrey Fife
1998
Predators
Royce
2010
The Early Show
Self
1999
Ghosted
Leveque
2023
Asteroid City
Schubert Green
2023
Midnight in Paris
Salvador Dalí
2011
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Julian Cadazio
2021
Icons
2002
See How They Run
Leo Köpernick
2022
Detachment
Henry Barthes
2011Detachment
Executive Producer
2011
Chapelwaite
Captain Charles Boone
2021Chapelwaite
Executive Producer
2021
Blonde
The Playwright
2022
The Experiment
Travis
2010
The Jacket
Jack Starks
2005
The Darjeeling Limited
Peter
2007
Splice
Clive
2010
Manhattan Night
Porter Wren
2016Manhattan Night
Producer
2016
Third Person
Sean
2014
Houdini
Harry Houdini
2014
Cadillac Records
Leonard Chess
2008
Bullet Head
Stacy
2017
Angels in the Outfield
Danny Hemmerling
1994
Air Strike
Steve
2018
The Brothers Bloom
Bloom
2009
Summer of Sam
Ritchie
1999
Fool's Paradise
Chad Luxt
2023
Dragon Blade
Tiberius
2015
Hollywoodland
Louis Simo
2006
King of the Hill
Lester
1993
New York Stories
Mel
1989Annie McGuire
1988
American Heist
Frankie
2014American Heist
Executive Producer
2014
The Singing Detective
First Hood
2003
Love, Marilyn
Self
2013
Clean
Clean
2022Clean
Producer
2022Clean
Original Music Composer
2022Clean
Writer
2022
Septembers of Shiraz
Isaac
2015Septembers of Shiraz
Executive Producer
2015
High School
Psycho Ed
2010
Solo
Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
1996
Back to 1942
Theodore Harold White
2012
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Self (archive footage)
2012
Backtrack
Peter Bower
2015
The Affair of the Necklace
Count Nicolas De La Motte
2001
Oxygen
Harry
1999
Harrison's Flowers
Kyle Morris
2000
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Ben
1997
Love the Hard Way
Jack Grace
2003
Liberty Heights
Van Kurtzman
1999
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
Bullet
Ruby Stein
1996
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
Eddie
1991
Bread and Roses
Sam Shapiro
2000
Wrecked
Man
2010Wrecked
Executive Producer
2010
The Mascot
Adam
2015Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
Self
Six Ways to Sunday
Arnie Finklestein
1999
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Self
2005
Manodrome
Dan
2023
Jailbreakers
Skinny
1994
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
Self - Peter
2010
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
Self
2004
Who Will Write Our History?
Emanuel Ringelblum (voice)
2018
The Undertaker's Wedding
Mario Bellini
1997Boredom
Danny
2015
Giallo
Inspector Enzo Avolfi
2010Giallo
Producer
2010
Dummy
Steven Schoichet
2002
Trintignant by Trintignant
Self (archive footage)
2021
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Self
2006
A Matador's Mistress
Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
2008
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
1998The Eighth Blunder of the World
Self
2006
InAPPropriate Comedy
Flirty Harry
2013InAPPropriate Comedy
Additional Dialogue
2013Last Dance
Elliot
Family Blend
Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy
Self
2007
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
2005
Predators: The Chosen
2010
The Present
Self
2004Evel Knievel on Tour
Shelly Saltman
Tori Amos - Video Collection: Fade to Red
2006
Ten Benny
Ray Diglovanni
1995
Restaurant
Chris Calloway
1999Snake Island
KISMET - A Journey With Adrien Brody
Self / Traveler
2025
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May
Self
2005The Library Book
Desmond
2015
Home at Last
Billy
1988Stone Barn Castle
Self
2015Stone Barn Castle
Director
2015Stone Barn Castle
Producer
2015
A Sorta Fairytale
Arm
2003
Ken and Rosa
Himself
2001