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
Sherlock Holmes
for Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes and the Return of Dracula
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Set a few years after the events of the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel, Dracula returns to England to seek vengeance upon those who wronged him, beginning with Arthur Holmwood After discovering Arthur's bloodless corpse with two puncture wounds in his throat, his cousin, Constance Bracknell, a very beautiful and independent-minded young woman, hires consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his aide/biographer Dr. John Watson to investigate, which leads them to encounter Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, and Dr. John Seward, who were informed of what happened to Arthur. Together, and aided by Constance, Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, and Detective Lestrade, the group works to stop Dracula from completing his vengeance with the aid of an old enemy of Holmes'. One that the detective thought he'd never see again.
