Age: 53
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Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera. Adrien attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York. Despite a strong performance in The Thin Red Line (1998), time constraints forced the director to edit out much of Adrien's part. In spite of his later work with Spike Lee and Barry Levinson, he never became the star many expected he would become until Roman Polanski called on him to play a celebrated Jewish pianist in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. He pulled off a brilliant performance in The Pianist (2002), drawing on the heritage and rare dialect of his Polish-born grandmother, as well as his father, who lost family members during the Holocaust, and his mother, who fled Communist Hungary as a child during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet Union.
Adrian Brody
Dr. Michael Morbius
for Dr. Michael Morbius in Spider-Man: Rise of the Ock
Suggested by matthewfenner
A year after the Green Goblin’s rampage left Aunt May and Captain Stacy dead, Peter Parker begins his senior year at Midtown High carrying the crushing guilt of two lives he couldn’t save. Though still protecting New York as Spider-Man, he’s colder, more ruthless — a hero losing sight of who he once was. When a brilliant scientist and Oscorp rival, Dr. Otto Octavius, unveils an experimental fusion reactor meant to revolutionize clean energy, tragedy strikes again. A catastrophic failure fuses four mechanical arms to his body, warping his mind and birthing Doctor Octopus — a man convinced he must “save the world” by destroying it first. As Otto’s intellect turns to madness, New York becomes his laboratory, and Spider-Man his greatest obstacle. Spider-Man: Rise of the Ock is an R-rated collision of grief, obsession, and redemption. Peter sees in Otto the reflection of everything he’s becoming — brilliant, broken, and blinded by loss. As Doc Ock’s rampage threatens to consume the city, Peter is forced to face his darkest fears: that being Spider-Man may cost him his soul. With Gwen pulling him back from the edge, he must find the strength to save a man who’s beyond saving. In a brutal, high-stakes finale across collapsing bridges and burning streets, Spider-Man fights not just to stop Doc Ock, but to prove to himself that compassion can still survive in a world built on pain.
