Age: 53
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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).
Adrien Brody
Helmut Zemo
for Helmut Zemo in Captain America: New Allegiance
Suggested by vadim_havard
The movie opens with a flashback to world war 2 where James Barnes is thrown down a mountain and supposedly dies. We see James wake up strapped to a table where a man in a purple mask is doing surgery on him. The man says his name is Baron Zemo and he has turned James into the perfect weapon. James starts getting dizzy and passes out. When he comes to James seems to be fully committed to Hydra. We cut to the present day with Steve Rogers and Nick Fury trying to start work on the Avengers Tower after the mansion was destroyed during the war. Just then Fury is shot in the shoulder by the man who killed Thaddeus Ross. Steve chases after him and the two start fighting from roof to roof throughout the city. Eventually Steve catches up, gets him to the ground, and takes his mask off to see that it's James, We cut back to the flashbacks of James being tortured and controlled by Hydra while Zemo tries to make contact with the Red Skull. We cut back to the present as Steve processes James still being alive. Just then a man jumps out of a jet and lands next to them and shoots Steve. He says he is Crossbones and was hired to help the Winter Solider kill Nick Fury. James watches as Steve fights this man and while watching breaks his mind control for a little and stops Crossbones. He tells Steve to go and is shot and tasered by Hydra's men and taken away. The movie ends with Steve visiting an old friend named Sam Wilson and telling him they need to save James.
