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).
Civilisation has long since collapsed. The cities are husks, highways snake through abandoned towns, and the dead no longer just wander—they stalk with cunning. Small settlements cling to tenuous safety, barricaded behind rusting gates, while the infected have evolved into more aggressive, adaptive predators. Heat, humidity, and overgrown landscapes turn travel into a gauntlet; abandoned vehicles, decaying farms, and flooded roads hide threats around every corner. A new group of survivors sets out along the southern corridors toward a distant evacuation point, encountering communities broken by fear, greed, and desperation. The infected now display bizarre behavioural mutations: a charging monstrosity capable of toppling doors, a jockey that drags prey into unseen depths, and others that force improvisation and ruthless strategy. Trust is a fragile currency. Every step forward exacts a toll on body and mind, and in a world where rescue might be a legend, survival is no longer just about outrunning the horde—it’s about outlasting the horror inside yourself.
