Adrien Brody
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The ThumbScore for Adrien Brody (72.8%) is the average audience approval rating across 25 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Adrien's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
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Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. Brody started his career in the early 1990s, appearing in a number of roles in his early career, including King of the Hill (1993), The Thin Red Line (1998), and Summer of Sam (1999). Brody won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for portraying Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth in Brady Corbet's period epic The Brutalist (2024); his first win, at age 29, made him the youngest winner in the category. For his performance in the latter he also won the BAFTA Award, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. His other notable films include The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Splice (2009), Predators (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Detachment (2011), and Blonde (2022).
Taking acting classes as a child, by age thirteen, Brody appeared in an Off-Broadway play and a PBS television film. His breakthrough came with a supporting role in Steven Soderbergh's King of the Hill (1993), a critically acclaimed drama often recognized as a pivotal moment in his early career, with both critics and Brody himself citing it as his big break. In 1996, he starred alongside Tupac Shakur and Mickey Rourke in Bullet.
Brody hovered on the brink of stardom, earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his performance in the 1998 film Restaurant and receiving praise for his roles in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (1999). Director Roman Polanski, impressed by Brody's work in Harrison's Flowers (2000), cast him the lead role in The Pianist (2002). To prepare for the role, Brody withdrew from public life for months, gave up his apartment and his car, and took piano lessons for four hours a day until he could master passages from some of Chopin's finest works. At 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall, he lost 30 pounds (14 kg), dropping him to 130 lb (59 kg).
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Born 1973-04-14 in New York City, New York, USA.
On ThumbScore, Adrien Brody appears in 25 films with an average audience score of 72.8%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
