| Adrien Brody  Born: 14-Apr-1973
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Pianist Adrien Brody's first paying job was as a magician, when he was 12. At 15, he had a role in Mary Tyler Moore's quickly-canceled 1988 sit-com, Annie McGuire, and played the lead in a PBS TV movie, Home at Last, as an orphan boy in the old west. Brody also had small roles in New York Stories, Angels in the Outfield, and King of the Hill (the 1993 Steven Soderbergh drama, not the cartoon). He played the killer in Oxygen, a punk rocker in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam, and an idiot in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). At 29, Brody was the youngest man ever to receive that award.
Brody was only invited to audition for The Pianist because a casting agent had seen his performance in the DVD of The Thin Red Line. It was a much meatier performance than what moviegoers saw in the theatrical release, which had been edited to almost nothing. He is probably best known for playing the screenwriter in Peter Jackson's King Kong with Naomi Watts.
Brody's father is Jewish, his mother Catholic, and his family was not very religious either way. His mother is photographer Sylvia Plachy, and before he was an actor, Brody was familiar to art denizens as a frequent subject of her work.
Father: Elliot Brody (artist)
Mother: Sylvia Plachy (photographer)
Girlfriend: Michelle Dupont (cohabiting since 2002)
High School: Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & the Performing Arts, New York, NY (1991)
Afghanistan World Foundation Celebrity Committee
Oscar for Best Actor 2003 for The Pianist
Endorsement of Coca Cola 2004
Blockbuster Video
Polish Ancestry Paternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Darjeeling Limited (3-Sep-2007)
Hollywoodland (31-Aug-2006)
King Kong (13-Dec-2005)
The Jacket (23-Jan-2005)
The Village (26-Jul-2004)
The Singing Detective (17-Jan-2003)
The Pianist (24-May-2002)
Dummy (21-Feb-2002)
The Affair of the Necklace (20-Nov-2001)
Love the Hard Way (8-Aug-2001)
Harrison's Flowers (23-Sep-2000)
Bread and Roses (10-May-2000)
Liberty Heights (17-Nov-1999)
Oxygen (12-Nov-1999)
Summer of Sam (20-May-1999)
The Thin Red Line (25-Dec-1998)
Restaurant (17-Apr-1998)
Six Ways to Sunday (Sep-1997)
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (05-Jun-1997)
Solo (23-Aug-1996)
Nothing to Lose (Jan-1996)
Bullet (1996)
Jailbreakers (9-Sep-1994)
Angels in the Outfield (15-Jul-1994)
King of the Hill (20-Aug-1993)
New York Stories (1-Mar-1989)
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