Adrien Brody

At 51 years old, Adrien Brody has this physical status:

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and producer.

He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age twenty-nine, making him the youngest actor to win in that category.

Brody is the only male American actor to receive the César Award for Best Actor. Other successful films that Brody has starred in are The Thin Red Line (1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), and Predators (2010).

He is a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson's, having starred in four of Anderson's films, The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2020). In 2017, he appeared in the fourth series of the BBC historical drama Peaky Blinders.

Early life

Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, the son of Sylvia Plachy, a photographer, and Elliot Brody, a retired history professor and painter. Brody's father is of Polish Jewish descent; Brody's mother, who was raised Catholic, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and is the daughter of a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat father and a Czech Jewish mother, although Brody says he was raised "without a strong connection" to either Judaism or Christianity.

As a child, Brody performed magic shows at children's birthday parties as "The Amazing Adrien". He attended I.S. 145 Joseph Pulitzer Middle School and New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. His parents enrolled him in acting classes to distance him from the dangerous children with whom he associated. He attended summer camp at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. Brody attended Stony Brook University before transferring to Queens College for a semester.

Personal life

In 1992, Brody was seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident in which he flew over a car and crashed head-first into a crosswalk. He spent months recuperating. He has broken his nose three times doing stunts, including during the filming of Summer of Sam.

He dated Michelle Dupont, a music industry personal assistant, from 2003 to 2006.

Brody began dating Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky in 2006. For Pataky's 31st birthday in July 2007, Brody purchased for her a 19th-century farm in Central New York state that was remodeled to look like a castle. Brody and Pataky were featured at their New York home in a 35-page spread for HELLO! magazine in October 2008. The pair broke up in 2009.

In 2009, Brody signed a petition which called for the release of Roman Polanski, during his arrest in Switzerland for his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.

In 2010, Brody sued makers of the film Giallo, alleging they failed to pay his full salary.

In February 2020, it was reported that he was in a relationship with English fashion designer and actress Georgina Chapman, former wife of Harvey Weinstein.

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Career

He began acting lessons as a child and appeared in an Off-Broadway play and a PBS television film by the age of 13. Brody, who appeared in Bullet in 1996 with Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke, was on the verge of fame, receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his role in the 1998 film Restaurant and later praise for his appearances in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. When he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), he received a lot of attention. Brody waited for months, gave up his house and his car, and broke up with his then-girlfriend, who weighed in on Chopin on the piano, limiting him to 130 pounds (13.6 kg). He received the Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the youngest actor to win the competition ever and, to date, the only winner under the age of thirty. He has since been rewarded with the César Award for his efforts.

Brody appeared on Saturday Night Live on May 10, 2003, his first television appearance. During this appearance, he controversially gave an improvised introduction for Jamaican reggae musical guest Sean Paul, while wearing faux dreadlocks and using a Jamaican accent. Brody did so without the knowledge of producer Lorne Michaels, resulting in his expulsion from Saturday Night Live. Since being tricked by Ashton Kutcher, NBC's The Today Show and MTV's Punk'd are two other television appearances.

Brody appeared in four very different films after The Pianist. Steven Schoichet was shot in Dummy (released in 2003, but it was shot in 2000, just before his time in The Pianist), portraying him as a socially awkward teen ventriloquist in search of a love interest (his employment counsellor). He learned ventriloquism and puppetry for the role (under the tutelage of actor/ventriloquist Alan Semok) professionally enough to perform all of the voice stunts and puppetry live on stage in real time, with no subsequent post-dubbing. In the film The Village by M. Night Shyamalan, shell-shocked war veteran Jack Starks in The Jacket, writer Jack Driscoll in the 2005 King Kong remake, and father-to-be Peter Whitman in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. King Kong was both a critical and box office hit, grossing $550 million worldwide, and it was Brody's most commercial film to date. In the film's video game version, he reprised his role as Driscoll. In addition, Brody played a detective in Hollywoodland. He has appeared in Diet Coke and Schweppes commercials, as well as Tori Amos' music video for "A Sorta Fairytale."

Brody denied rumors that he was interested in playing The Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight, on January 5, 2006. However, Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. chose Heath Ledger instead. He was also in talks with In J. Abrams' Star Trek, he was also in talks to play Spock, but Zachary Quinto was ultimately chosen. He appeared in Splice, a science-fiction film written and directed by Vincenzo Natali in 2009. Splice, the original Sundance film, was released by Dark Castle Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. He appeared in Royce Predators (a sequel to the original Predator) directed by Nimród Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez in 2010.

Brody appeared in "Crying Jean," a Stella Artois beer commercial that debuted right after halftime of Super Bowl XLV as part of Stella's "She Is a Thing of Beauty" campaign. Salvador Dali, who appeared in Woody Allen's 2011 Academy Award-winning comedy Midnight in Paris, was Salvador Dali. Brody made his debut as a runway model for Prada Men's Fall/Winter 2012 on January 16, 2012.

Brody collaborated with Wes Anderson in the Academy Award-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel, where he played Dmitri in 2014. In a Miniseries or Movie for portraying the title character in Houdini's History miniseries, he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. Brody appeared in the title role of Lee Tamahori's epic Emperor, about a teenage woman seeking revenge for her father's execution by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, opposite Sophie Cookson. In 2017, the film was finished and screened in Cannes, but its release was delayed due to legal difficulties.

Tiberius appeared in the Chinese film Dragon Blade, which grossed $54.8 million in its first week in China. That year, he received the Cinema Vanguard award at the San Diego Film Festival as well.

He would appear in the fourth season of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders, despite the fact that it was announced in 2017.

At the Locarno Festival on August 4, 2017, he received the Leopard Club Award. The Leopard Club Award honors a major film personality whose work has left a lasting impression on the collective imagination.

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At the Savannah Film Festival in 2021, he was given the Vanguard Award.

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