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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
Ed Calagan
for Ed Calagan in What a wonderful d-day !
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Ed Calagan is a successful former director of big-budget action films. But soon, he loses all his inspiration, beginning a long period of professional inactivity. Her superiors noticing that he no longer brings in any money for production, decide to dismiss her. Ed becomes depressed and when he tries to commit suicide, Max, an attacker kidnaps him hoping to exchange him for a large sum of money. But it is while making a phone call to Ed's wife that Max realizes that he has kidnapped a loser who is no longer worth anything and whom no one wants. Max tries to abandon his victim but the latter, having nowhere to go and no one to love him, decides to follow his attacker. Max tries to get rid of Ed who encumbers him in his criminal business but Ed does not let go of the case, he is determined to pursue Max to the end of the world because this one gives him inspiration to make a film about Max's life. But soon, Calagan finds himself embroiled in the unhealthy story of Max, whose skin is lacking in all the mafia bosses in the city !
