Adrien Brody Born: 14-Apr-1973 Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Pianist Adrien Brody's first paying job was as a magician, when he was 12. At 15, he had a role in Mary Tyler Moore's quickly-canceled 1988 sit-com, Annie McGuire, and played the lead in a PBS TV movie, Home at Last, as an orphan boy in the old west. Brody also had small roles in New York Stories, Angels in the Outfield, and King of the Hill (the 1993 Steven Soderbergh drama, not the cartoon). He played the killer in Oxygen, a punk rocker in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam, and an idiot in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). At 29, Brody was the youngest man ever to receive that award.
Brody was only invited to audition for The Pianist because a casting agent had seen his performance in the DVD of The Thin Red Line. It was a much meatier performance than what moviegoers saw in the theatrical release, which had been edited to almost nothing. He is probably best known for playing the screenwriter in Peter Jackson's King Kong with Naomi Watts.
Brody's father is Jewish, his mother Catholic, and his family was not very religious either way. His mother is photographer Sylvia Plachy, and before he was an actor, Brody was familiar to art denizens as a frequent subject of her work.
Father: Elliot Brody (artist) Mother: Sylvia Plachy (photographer) Girlfriend: Michelle Dupont (cohabiting since 2002)
High School: LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (1991)
Afghanistan World Foundation Celebrity Committee Oscar for Best Actor 2003 for The Pianist Endorsement of Coca-Cola 2004
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Polish Ancestry Paternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Manhattan Night (16-May-2016) Backtrack (18-Apr-2015) Dragon Blade (18-Feb-2015) American Heist (11-Sep-2014) Houdini (1-Sep-2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel (6-Feb-2014) Third Person (9-Sep-2013) InAPPropriate Comedy (22-Mar-2013) Back to 1942 (11-Nov-2012) Midnight in Paris (11-May-2011) · Salvador Dali Detachment (25-Apr-2011) Wrecked (1-Apr-2011) The Experiment (15-Jul-2010) · Travis Predators (8-Jul-2010) · Royce High School (24-Jan-2010) · Psycho Ed Fantastic Mr. Fox (14-Oct-2009) · Field Mouse [VOICE] Splice (6-Oct-2009) · Clive Nicoli Giallo (25-Jun-2009) · Giallo Cadillac Records (5-Dec-2008) The Brothers Bloom (9-Sep-2008) · Bloom A Matador's Mistress (6-Sep-2008) The Darjeeling Limited (3-Sep-2007) · Peter Hollywoodland (31-Aug-2006) · Louis Simo King Kong (13-Dec-2005) The Jacket (23-Jan-2005) · Jack The Village (26-Jul-2004) The Singing Detective (17-Jan-2003) The Pianist (24-May-2002) · Wladyslaw Szpilman Dummy (21-Feb-2002) · Steven The Affair of the Necklace (20-Nov-2001) · Count Nicolas De La Motte Love the Hard Way (8-Aug-2001) · Jack Harrison's Flowers (23-Sep-2000) · Kyle Morris Bread and Roses (10-May-2000) · Sam Liberty Heights (17-Nov-1999) Oxygen (12-Nov-1999) Summer of Sam (20-May-1999) The Thin Red Line (25-Dec-1998) · Cpl. Fife Restaurant (17-Apr-1998) · Chris Six Ways to Sunday (Sep-1997) The Undertaker's Wedding (Aug-1997) · Mario The Last Time I Committed Suicide (5-Jun-1997) Solo (23-Aug-1996) Bullet (Mar-1996) Ten Benny (9-Apr-1995) Jailbreakers (9-Sep-1994) · Skinny Angels in the Outfield (15-Jul-1994) King of the Hill (20-Aug-1993) · Lester The Boy Who Cried Bitch (May-1991) New York Stories (1-Mar-1989)
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