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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
The Strange Man
for The Strange Man in Red Dead Redemption II (HBO Series)
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Set at the end of the American frontier in 1899, Red Dead Redemption II follows the Van der Linde gang as they struggle to survive in a rapidly changing world. Led by the charismatic yet increasingly unstable Dutch van der Linde, the gang is constantly on the run, hunted by lawmen and rival gangs while internal tensions threaten to tear them apart. At the center of the story is Arthur Morgan, Dutch’s most loyal enforcer, a hardened outlaw wrestling with guilt, loyalty, and the slow realization that the life he has chosen may be built on lies. As betrayal grows within the gang and violence becomes unavoidable, Arthur must choose between blind devotion and his own moral redemption. This HBO adaptation focuses on realism, character-driven drama, and the brutal collapse of an outlaw family.
