
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).

Bienvenidos a la ciudad de Elantris, la poderosa y bella capital de Arelon llamada la «ciudad de los dioses». Antaño famosa sede de inmortales, lugar repleto de poderosa magia, Elantris ha caído en desgracia. Ahora solo acoge a los nuevos «muertos en vida», postrados en una insufrible «no-vida» tras una misteriosa y terrible transformación. Un matrimonio de Estado destinado a unir los reinos de Arelon y Teod se frustra, ya que el novio, Raoden, el príncipe de Arelon, sufre inesperadamente la Transformación y se convierte en un «muerto en vida» obligado a refugiarse en Elantris. Su reciente esposa, la princesa Sarene de Teod, creyéndolo muerto, se ve obligada a incorporarse a la vida de Arelon y su nueva capital, Kae. Mientras, el embajador y alto sacerdote de otro reino vecino, Fjordell, usará su habilidad política para intentar dominar Arelod y Teod con el propósito de somerterlos a su emperador y su dios.
