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Full Name:Adrien Brody - Contact Adrien Brody
Birth Name:Adrien Brody
Famous As: Actor
Date of Birth: April 14, 1973
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Height: 6' 1?
Nationality: American
Relationships: Michelle Dupont
Father: Elliot Brody
Mother: Sylvia Plachy
Education: Attended New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and High School for the Performing Arts
Claim to Fame: As Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist (2002)

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Adrien Brody

Brody in New York City, September 2007
Born April 14, 1973 (1973-04-14) (age 35)
Woodhaven, Queens,
New York, U.S.
Years active 1988–present

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. He received widespread recognition and subsequent acclaim when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). He is notable as the youngest actor ever to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor and the only American actor ever to win a Cesar Award.

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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 Brody's 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.

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 off-the-wall stunts. His nose was also broken once again during the filming of Summer of Sam.

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, at 29, the youngest actor ever to win the award. He also won a CĂ©sar 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.citation needed 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.

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.

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 million 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".

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 also starred as a con man named "Bloom" (no first name given) in Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, which is slated to be released in late December, 2008.[8] Brody will also star in Splice, a science fiction film directed by Vincenzo Natali that is slated for a 2009 release. Brody is currently filming Cadillac Records, directed by Darnell Martin, which is slated for a 2008 release.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1988 Home at Last Billy
1989 New York Stories Mel
1991 The Boy Who Cried Bitch Eddie
1993 King of the Hill Lester Silverstone
1994 Angels in the Outfield Danny Hemmerling
Jailbreakers Skinny
1996 Nothing to Lose Ray Diglovanni aka Ten Benny
Solo Dr. Bill Stewart, Solo's Designer
Bullet Ruby
1997 The Last Time I Committed Suicide Ben
Six Ways to Sunday Arnie Finklestein
1998 The Thin Red Line Cpl. Fife
The Undertaker's Wedding Mario Bellini
Restaurant Chris Calloway Independent Spirit Awards Best Lead Actor Nomination
1999 Oxygen Harry
Liberty Heights Van Kurtzman
Summer of Sam Richie
2000 Bread and Roses Sam Shapiro
Harrison's Flowers Kyle Morris
2001 The Affair of The Necklace Count Nicolas De La Motte
Love the Hard Way Jack Grace
2002 Dummy Steven
The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe nomination, SAG Awards nomination
2003 The Singing Detective First Hood
2004 The Village Noah Percy
2005 The Jacket Jack Starks
King Kong Jack Driscoll
2006 Hollywoodland Louis Simo
2007 The Tehuacan Project Narrator
Manolete Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez "Manolete"
The Darjeeling Limited Peter Whitman
2008 The Brothers Bloom Bloom awaiting release
Cadillac Records Leonard Chess post-production
2009 Splice Clive post-production
Giallo Inspector Enzo Lavia filming

Awards and Nominations

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References

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  1. ^ Adrien Brody Biography (1973-)
  2. ^ Meyers, William (2005-01-27). "Rescuing Beauty From History's Dark Corners", The New York Sun. Retrieved on 2006-12-13. 
  3. ^ "The prime of Adrien Brody", Guardian Unlimited (2006-11-12). Retrieved on 2006-12-13. 
  4. ^ The Village Voice
  5. ^ ::The Latest BATMAN movie news from BATMAN ON FILM - The Net's #1 "BATMAN" movie website! (Est. 1998)::
  6. ^ Casting Rumor: Damon, Brody & Sinise for Kirk, Spock & McCoy | TrekMovie.com
  7. ^ <http://www.moviehole.net/news/20070725_zachary_quinto_is_spock.html
  8. ^ http://www.cinemafusion.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/brick_writer_and_directors_latest_flick/ Cinema Fusion
  9. ^ Snap happy lovers Adrien and Elsa capture glitzy premiere
  10. ^ Adrien Brody & Elsa Pataky's 'Private' Rings - Couples, Adrien Brody : People.com

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Denzel Washington
for Training Day		 Academy Award for Best Actor
2002
for The Pianist		 Succeeded by
Sean Penn
for Mystic River