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
Gunstick Uncle
for Gunstick Uncle in Treasure of Silver Lake
Suggested by jakubduda
The story takes place in the Wild West in the 19th century. Cornel Brinkley, the leader of the local bandits, learns about the legendary Indian treasure hidden on Silver Lake and wants to get it. He kills Erik Engel who has part of the map to the treasure. The murdered man is taken by stagecoach to Tulsa, to Engel's son Fred. He goes with Sam Hawkens and Gunstick Uncle to catch the killers. On the way, they meet a man with the bag of the murdered man. Fred thinks he is the father's killer and attacks him. But the man easily stuns him, and Hawkens recognizes his friend Old Shatterhand, a renowned hunter and woodsman. He promises help and tells them that his blood brother, the famous Apache chief Winnetou, is tracking bandits. He also meets Lord Castlepool in the saloon, who has come wild west to collect butterflies. The fight with the bandits begins. Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, and others make their way through Utah territory to Silver Lake. They come across a burned down Native American village, where they are attacked by the Utahs, who believe that they are the ones who burned the village down. Cornel and his men capture Ellen and take her to El Dora. Old Shatterhand comes up with a plan to free her and in the village then defeats Chief Grosser Wolf in a one-on-one fight, Chief Quick Panther breaks the deal, chases them. At the lake, Cornel and his men go to the treasure, kill Tonkawa. His men are dying. Winnetou and the others arrive at the scene. The bandits are captured.
