Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody in New York City, 2007
Born	April 14, 1973 (1973-04-14) (age 35) Woodhaven, Queens, New York, U.S.
Years active	1988-present
Awards won Academy Awards Best Actor 2002 The Pianist César Awards Best Actor 2002 The Pianist

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award, and a César Award for Best Actor, the only American actor to win one. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Woodhaven Boulevard, Main Road, Large abundance of trees Woodhaven, once known as Woodville, is home to a wealthy mix of middle to upper-class residents, mostly a middle-income neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. ... For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation) and Queen. ... This article is about the state. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ... The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody. ... The César Award is the national film award of France first given out in 1975. ... Winners of the César Award in French film for best actor: 1976 : Philippe Noiret - (Le Vieux Fusil) 1977 : Michel Galabru - (Le Juge et lassassin) 1978 : Jean Rochefort - (Le Crabe-Tambour) 1979 : Michel Serrault - (La Cage aux folles) 1980 : Claude Brasseur - (La Guerre des polices) 1981 : Gérard Depardieu... The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody. ... is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and producer. ... The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody. ... Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ... Winners of the César Award in French film for best actor: 1976 : Philippe Noiret - (Le Vieux Fusil) 1977 : Michel Galabru - (Le Juge et lassassin) 1978 : Jean Rochefort - (Le Crabe-Tambour) 1979 : Michel Serrault - (La Cage aux folles) 1980 : Claude Brasseur - (La Guerre des polices) 1981 : Gérard Depardieu...

Biography

Early life

Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the son of Sylvia Plachy, a photojournalist, and Elliot Brody, a retired history professor and painter.^[1] Brody's father is Jewish and his mother was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Catholic father and Jewish mother.^[2][3] As a child, Brody performed magic shows at children's birthday parties as "The Amazing Adrien".^[4] Brody attended New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (famous as the inspiration for television's Fame). His parents enrolled him in acting classes to distance him from the dangerous kids with whom he associated. Woodhaven Boulevard, Main Road, Large abundance of trees Woodhaven, once known as Woodville, is home to a wealthy mix of middle to upper-class residents, mostly a middle-income neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. ... For other uses, see Queens (disambiguation) and Queen. ... This article is about the state. ... Sylvia Plachy is photographer. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... See Budapest (band) for the British melancholic post-grunge band. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... This article is about the state. ... Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as H.S. 485 and informally as LaGuardia Arts, is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. ... Fame was an American television series that ran from 1982 to 1987. ...

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. An avid daredevil, he has broken his nose three times doing "mad-crazy" stunts. His nose was also broken once again during the filming of Summer of Sam. For other uses, see Motorcycle (disambiguation). ... Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. ...

Career

Taking acting classes as a youth, by age thirteen, he had done an off-Broadway play and a PBS-TV-movie. Brody hovered on the brink of stardom, receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his role in the 1998 film Restaurant and later praise for his roles in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). To prepare for the role, Brody withdrew for months, gave up his apartment and his car, learned how to play Chopin on the piano, and lost 29 lbs (13 kg). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him the youngest actor ever to win the award. He also won a César Award for his performance, becoming the only American actor to win one. Throughout his career, Brody has been compared to Al Pacino for his unique looks and method acting. He is also widely known for giving presenter Halle Berry a back-breaking kiss after winning his Best Actor Oscar, and as the spokesman for fashion brand Ermenegildo Zegna. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an Emmy Award - winning, and Academy Award - nominated American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. ... Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders. ... Terrence Terry Malick (born November 30, 1943, in Ottawa, Illinois) is an American film director. ... The Thin Red Line is an Academy Award nominated 1998 film which tells the story of United States forces during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. It marked director Terrence Malicks return to filmmaking after a twenty year absence. ... Roman Polanski (born August 18, 1933) is an Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, and producer. ... The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody. ... Chopin redirects here. ... Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. ... The César Award is the national film award of France first given out in 1975. ... Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an Academy, Golden Globe, Tony, BAFTA, Emmy, and SAG award winning American actor who is best known for playing the roles of Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy . ... Method acting is an acting technique in which actors try to replicate real life emotional conditions under which the character operates, in an effort to create a life-like, realistic performance. ... Halle Maria Berry (IPA: ; born August 14, 1966[1]) is an American actress. ... Ermenegildo Zegna logo The high-fashion clothing company Ermenegildo Zegna (pronounced dzenya according to Italian pronunciation) was founded in 1910 in Trivero, Italy by tailor and entrepreneur Ermenegildo Zegna. ...

Brody appeared on Saturday Night Live on May 10, 2003, his first TV work, but he was banned from the show after giving an improvised introduction while wearing faux dreadlocks for Jamaican reggae musical guest Sean Paul (the show's producer, Lorne Michaels, is notorious for hating unscripted performances). However, the unscripted intro remains in reruns of the episode. Other TV appearances include NBC's The Today Show and on MTV's Punk'd after being tricked by Ashton Kutcher. SNL redirects here. ... Rastaman with long locks Dreadlocks, sometimes simply called locks or dreads, are interlocked coils of hair which tend to form by themselves, in all hair types, if the hair is washed regularly and allowed to grow naturally without the use of brushes, combs, razors, or scissors for a long period... Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ... This article is about the Jamaican reggae artist. ... Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian Emmy-winning television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. ... For other uses, see Today. ... Punkd is an American hidden camera practical joke television series on MTV, produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher, which first aired in 2003. ... This article is about the actor. ...

After The Pianist Brody has appeared in four very different movies. He played Noah Percy, a mentally disabled young man in the movie 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. King Kong was a Box-Office success; it grossed 550,316,795 worldwide and is Brody's most successful movie to date. He also played a detective in Hollywoodland. He has also appeared in Diet Coke commercials and Tori Amos' music video for "A Sorta Fairytale". The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody. ... The Village (2004) is a thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan that explores the dynamics of an insular American village colony and the collective fears of its members. ... Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan (born August 6, 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, //, is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director, who also performs smaller roles in his own movies. ... For the 1915 Jack London novel, published as The Jacket in England, which inspired some plot elements of the film, see The Star Rover. ... Jack, as portrayed by Bruce Cabot in the 1933 original film Jack Driscoll is a fictional character in the 1933 film King Kong and its 2005 remake. ... King Kong is a New Zealand/United States adventure/fantasy movie remake of the original 1933 movie written by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. ... The Darjeeling Limited is a comedy-drama film of a journey through India by three brothers, played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. ... Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American director, writer, and producer of features, short films and commercials. ... Hollywoodland is a 2006 biopic/docudrama directed by TV alum Allen Coulter (his feature directorial debut) about a down-on-his-luck detective, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), investigating the suspicious suicide of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), the star of televisions Superman. ... Diet Coke (sometimes known as Diet Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light or Coke Light) is a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company. ... Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. ... The correct title of this article is . ...

On January 5, 2006, Brody confirmed speculation that he indeed was interested and very willing to play the role of The Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight. However, Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. eventually decided to cast Heath Ledger as The Joker.^[5] He was also in talks with Paramount to play Spock in J.J. Abrams Star Trek XI, but it ultimately went to Zachary Quinto.^[6][7] Brody has been confirmed to star as a con man in Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, which is slated for a 2008 release date.^[8] Brody will also star in Splice, a science fiction film directed by Vincenzo Natali and is slated for a 2009 release. Brody is currently filming Cadillac Records, directed by Darnell Martin, which is slated for a 2008 release. is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Joker is a DC Comics supervillain, widely considered to be Batmans archenemy. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dark Knight is an upcoming 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman. ... Heath Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-nominated Australian-born film actor who lived in New York City. ... This article is about the Star Trek character. ... Jeffrey J. Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J.J. Abrams) (born June 27, 1966) is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. ... Star Trek XI is the working title of the planned eleventh entry in the Star Trek film series, based on Gene Roddenberrys science fiction franchise. ... Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on 24, Sasan on So NoTORIous, and Gabriel Sylar Gray on NBCs Heroes. ... Rian Johnson at Austin Film Festival 2005 Rian Craig Johnson (born 1973 in Maryland) is an American writer and director, who won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with his debut feature, Brick. ... The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 crime drama written and directed by Rian Johnson and stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz,Zachary Gordon and Rinko Kikuchi. ... Splice has several meanings: In outdoor recreation (such as sailing or camping) rope splicing involves joining two pieces of rope or wire by weaving the strands of each into the other. ...

Personal life

Brody is currently dating Elsa Pataky.^[9][10]

Filmography

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Awards and Nominations

Won

• Academy Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• BSFC Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• Ceasar Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• NSFC Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• VFAA Award for Best Actor Love the Hard Way

Nominated

• BAFTA Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• CFCA Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• European Film Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• OFCS Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• Polish Film Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• SAAG Award for Best Actor The Pianist
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor Restaurant

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External links

• Adrien Brody at the Internet Movie Database

• Adrien Brody Fan Site
• Adrien Brody's iTunes Celebrity Playlist
• Vilmos Plachy, Adrian Brody's grandfather 1940 in Budapest
• Adrien Brody Filmography