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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).
The Doom Patrol are a metahuman team of heroes consisting of freaks, outcasts, and social misfits whose powers cause them alienation and trauma. They dedicate their lives to protecting a society that will not accept them and rejects them outright. Their leader is a ruthless and manipulative scientific genius named Niles Caulder, but known more by his team as The Chief, who is possibly responsible for the accidents that gave them powers. The enemies and situations the patrol encounters on their adventures are often highly bizarre and outlandish in nature, even compared to other, more conventional superhero teams, such as the metamorphic supervillain Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the absurdist Brotherhood of Dada. The original members included Beast Boy, Elasti-Girl, Mento, Negative Man, and Robotman.
