Born in New York City on April 14, 1973, to photojournalist Sylvia Plachy, Adrien Brody knew at an early age that he wanted to be an actor. He enrolled at both the American Academy of Dramatic Art and the High School for the Performing Arts and made his television debut in the 1988 PBS movie Home at Last.Brody honed his craft in a series of independent films, including Steven Soderbergh's 1993 King of the Hill. His career was set to explode with a major role in Terrence Malick's war epic The Thin Red Line (1998), but many of his scenes were cut by the time the film was released.
Fortunately, his role as a bisexual punk in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (1999) remained intact and got him noticed by the critics. Brody's fame was sealed with his Oscar-winning role as Polish Jew Wladyslaw Szpilman in Roman Polanski's powerful Holocaust survival story The Pianist (2002).
The PianistFamed Polish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody, in an Oscar-winning role) struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this Roman Polanski-directed drama based on Szpilman's memoirs. In spite of his well-known musical talents, Szpilman spends several years... Read More
PredatorsRugged mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody) inherits command of an elite team of human fighters -- including dorky-but-dangerous Edwin (Topher Grace) and tough-but-beautiful Isabelle (Alice Braga) -- as they are hunted by a race of ruthless alien trackers known as Predators. Director Nimród Antal's sci-fi... Read More
SpliceIgnoring instructions from the pharmaceutical company that funds their research, groundbreaking genetic scientists Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrien Brody) continue with an unorthodox experiment to create a human-animal hybrid, a new life form they dub "Dren" (Delphine Chanéac). When they... Read More
The JacketJohn Maybury's masterful thriller stars Adrien Brody as Jack Starks, a Persian Gulf War veteran who has lost his memories to amnesia. When Jack is accused of a heinous killing, he realizes he must find a way to prove his innocence. Desperate to unearth clues about his past, he seeks a controversial... Read More
Wrecked (2011) | R | |
Midnight in Paris (2011) | PG-13 | |
Detachment (2011) | NR | |
Predators (2010) | R | |
The Experiment (2010) | R | |
High School (2010) | NR | |
Splice (2009) | R | |
Giallo (2009) | R | |
NR | ||
The Brothers Bloom (2008) | PG-13 | |
Cadillac Records (2008) | R | |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) | R | |
Hollywoodland (2006) | R | |
The Jacket (2005) | R | |
PG-13 | ||
NR | ||
The Village (2004) | PG-13 | |
TV-PG | ||
Gumball 3000: 6 Days in May (2004) | NR | |
Dummy (2003) | R | |
The Singing Detective (2003) | R | |
NR | ||
The Pianist (2002) | R | |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) | R | |
Love the Hard Way (2001) | R | |
R | ||
R | ||
Summer of Sam (1999) | R | |
Liberty Heights (1999) | R | |
The Thin Red Line (1998) | R | |
Restaurant (1998) | R | |
R | ||
R | ||
Six Ways to Sunday (1997) | R | |
The Undertaker's Wedding (1997) | R | |
Bullet (1996) | R | |
Solo (1996) | PG-13 | |
Ten Benny (1996) | R | |
R | ||
New York Stories (1989) | PG | |
Home at Last (1988) | NR | |
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