1. Adrien Nicholas Brody was born on April 14,1973 and is an American actor.
36 Facts About Adrien Brody
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Adrien Brody has received several other accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Adrien Brody has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, acting in his films The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, and Asteroid City.
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On television, Brody has played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders, and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
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Adrien Brody earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for such roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini, and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession.
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On stage, Adrien Brody made his London theatre debut as death row inmate Nick Yarris in the Lindsey Ferrentino play The Fear of 13, garnering a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.
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Adrien Nicholas Brody was born on April 14,1973, in Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, the son of Sylvia Plachy, a photographer, and Elliot Brody, a retired history professor and painter.
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Adrien Brody's mother was born in Budapest, Hungary, and immigrated to the US from Austria in 1958, to which she had fled with her parents following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; she was raised Catholic, and is the daughter of a Catholic Hungarian aristocrat father and a Czech Jewish mother.
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Adrien Brody has said he was raised "without a strong connection" to either Judaism or Christianity.
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Adrien Brody attended summer camp at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in the Adirondacks in upstate New York.
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Adrien Brody attended Stony Brook University before transferring to Queens College for a semester.
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Adrien Brody's breakthrough came with a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's King of the Hill, a critically acclaimed drama often recognized as a pivotal moment in his early career, with both critics and Brody himself citing it as his big break.
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Adrien Brody hovered on the brink of stardom, earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance in the 1998 film Restaurant and receiving praise for his roles in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Spike Lee's Summer of Sam.
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The role earned him Best Actor nominations at the BAFTA, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards; Adrien Brody did not win any of these prizes, making him one of few actors to win an Oscar and no major precursor awards for a performance.
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Adrien Brody learned ventriloquism and puppetry for the role convincingly enough to perform all of the voice stunts and puppet manipulation live on set in real time, with no subsequent post dubbing.
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Adrien Brody played Noah Percy, a mentally disabled young man, 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 The Darjeeling Limited by Wes Anderson.
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Adrien Brody reprised his role voicing Driscoll in the video game adaptation of the film.
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Adrien Brody has appeared in Diet Coke and Schweppes commercials, as well as Tori Amos' music video for "A Sorta Fairytale".
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On January 5,2006, Adrien Brody confirmed speculation that he was interested in playing the role of The Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight, and met with director Christopher Nolan.
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Adrien Brody was in talks with Paramount to play Spock in JJ Abrams' Star Trek, but it ultimately went to Zachary Quinto.
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In 2011, Adrien Brody starred in a Stella Artois beer commercial called "Crying Jean" that premiered right after half-time of Super Bowl XLV as part of Stella's "She Is a Thing of Beauty" campaign.
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Adrien Brody appeared in Woody Allen's 2011 Academy Award-winning comedy, Midnight in Paris as Salvador Dali.
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In 2014, Adrien Brody collaborated again with Wes Anderson in the Academy Award-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel, where he played the villain Dmitri.
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Adrien Brody received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or in a Movie for portraying the title character in Houdini, a History Channel miniseries.
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Adrien Brody received the Cinema Vanguard award at the San Diego Film Festival the same year.
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In 2019, Adrien Brody left Paradigm to sign with CAA Creative Artists Agency.
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In 2024, Adrien Brody starred in Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, replacing Joel Edgerton in the lead role and joining an ensemble cast consisting of Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Laird, and Peter Polycarpou.
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Adrien Brody broke the world record of the longest Oscar speech of all time.
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In 1992, Adrien Brody was seriously injured in a motorcycle collision, in which he was thrown over a car and crashed headfirst into a crosswalk.
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Adrien Brody has broken his nose three times doing stunts, including during the filming of Summer of Sam.
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Adrien Brody lived in Los Angeles during his early career and now is based in Manhattan.
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In 2010, Adrien Brody sued makers of the film Giallo, alleging they failed to pay his full salary.
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In January 2011 it was reported that Adrien Brody had reached a settlement with the producers.
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Adrien Brody began dating Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky in 2006.
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For six years, Adrien Brody was in a relationship with Russian model Lara Lieto, after meeting at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
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At the 75th Academy Awards in 2003, Adrien Brody became the subject of controversy while receiving his Best Actor Oscar for The Pianist when he passionately kissed the presenter, actress Halle Berry.