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Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film. For his role as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in The Brutalist (2024), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and earned his second Academy Award Nomination and subsequent win for Best Actor. Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line(1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), and See How They Run(2022). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in his films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City(2023). He portrayed Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominik's Blonde (2022). On television, he has played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2017) and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023). He earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).
When a final confrontation between Batman and the Joker sends the two careening off a bridge, Batman sustains heavy injuries while the Joker is reported to have met his demise. Awaking in an ambulance, Batman fights his way through persistent EMTs and makes his escape. In trying to make it to safety, he succumbs to his injuries and collapses in a street, where he is rescued by occult detective John Constantine. Fading in and out of consciousness, Batman begins having flashbacks to his childhood and his time spent with his deceased parents Thomas and Martha Wayne. However, something seems different... His memories are plagued by the mystical witch Enchantress. Back in present day, Batman wakes up in the hotel room of Constantine, who says to Batman that he will need an ally after his fight with the Joker. Batman then learns of the Joker's apparent death on Constantine's television. Having no memory of the finality of the encounter, he is haunted by the possibility that he may have murdered the Joker himself. He returns to the bridge and promptly begins investigating the situation, finding a homeless man claiming to have witnessed the Joker's murder at the hands of the devil. The homeless man vanishes before Batman can interrogate him. Batman returns to the Batcave to reflect on the situation and assess his wounds, where he is plagued by strange voices and hallucinates one of his Batsuits coming to life and attacking him. Later, Batman disguises himself to observe Gotham City's street activity. He is visited by Deadman, who warns him that dark forces are conspiring against him. That night, Batman and Constantine meet at a church where a statue of Jesus Christ has been desecrated with the Joker's smile.
