Adrien Brody
American Actor
Date of birth: 23 12 1976
Place of birth: New York.
Adrien Brody won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. He is to date the youngest person to have won the Oscar in that category. His portrayal of real-life Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman in the Focus Features release also earned him Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the César Awards (France’s equivalent of the Oscars); and nominations for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA Awards.
Mr. Brody was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the High School for the Performing Arts and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He first came to prominence with a starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s King of the Hill. He later starred in two features for director Eric Bross, Ten Benny and Restaurant. The latter earned Mr. Brody an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other films include Elie Chouraqui’s Harrison’s Flowers; Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses; Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line; Charles Shyer’s The Affair of the Necklace; Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights; Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam; Keith Gordon’s The Singing Detective; M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village; and John Maybury’s The Jacket. He most recently starred in Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning epic remake of King Kong. He has completed filming the highly anticipated period romantic drama Manolete for writer/director Menno Meyjes. Starring opposite Pénelope Cruz Mr. Brody portrays Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez, who was Spains most famous bullfighter
Filmography
2011 Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
2011 Waco
2011 Splice - Vincenzo Natali
2010 Detachment
2010 Wrecked
2010 The Experiment
2010 Predators - Nimrod Antal
2010 High School
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 Giallo
2008 Cadillac Records
2007 The Brothers Bloom
2007 The Darjeeling Limited
2007 Manolete
2007 I'm Not There of
Todd Haynes
2006
Manolete of Menno Meyjes
2006 Hollywoodland - Allen Coulter
2006 Gumball 3000: Drivin' Me Crazy of
Charlie Hustleb
2006
Fade to Red (V)of Tori Amos, Loren
Haynes
2005
King Kong of
Peter Jackson
2005
The Jacket of
John Maybury
2004
The Village
of
M. Night Shyamalan
2002 The Pianist - Roman Polanski
2001 The Affair of the necklace of Charles Shyer
2002 Love the hard way of Peter Sehr
2000 Bread and Roses de Ken Loach
2000 Harisson'S flowers of Elie Chouraqui
2000 Liberty Heights of Levinson
1999 Summer of Sam ee Spike Lee
1998 La ligne rouge The thin red line of Terrence Malick
1998 Six Ways to Sunday de Adam Bernstein
1997
The Undertaker's
Wedding
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