Adrien Brody won the Academy Award and Cesar Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of real-life Holocaust survivor Wladislaw Szpilman in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. He is to date the youngest person to have received the Oscar in that category. His performance also earned him Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics, and nominations for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA Awards.

Adrien starred in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch as well as Charlie Day’s directorial debut, El Tonto. Brody guest-starred in Season 4 of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders on BBC and Netflix. The show centers on a gangster family in 1919 operating in Birmingham, England during the aftermath of the First World War. Adrien can currently be seen in Brady Corbet's The Brutalist for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Male Actor.

In 2015, Brody was Emmy and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nominated for portraying Harry Houdini in History’s biopic, Houdini. The two-night original event debuted as the most-watched cable miniseries of the year. That same year he was seen in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which won the 2015 Golden Globe for "Best Picture, Musical or Comedy" and was a 2015 Academy Award “Best Picture” nominee. That February, he co-starred opposite martial arts legend, Jackie Chan, in Dragon Blade, which grossed a stunning $100M within its first two weeks of opening in China. The success of the film helped catapult the Chinese box office to beat the US box office in total monthly revenue for the first time ever and stamped Brody as an internationally bankable star. It also marked the start of his ongoing partnership with a core group of elite filmmakers and financiers in the venerable marketplace.

In 2014, Brody launched a production company called Fable House. His past slate includes a Brian DeCubellis-directed adaptation of the Colin Harrison novel, Manhattan Nocturne, in which Brody also stars, and a documentary called Stone Barn Castle which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March 2015. The documentary, which he co-directed, chronicles his seven-year personal journey to restore a magical but dilapidated stone barn in upstate New York, and in the process, takes the viewer on the universal quest to find home. Numerous projects are in the works.

Brody has worked with some of the most prominent film directors in the industry: Paul Haggis (Third Person); Roman Polanski (The Pianist); Peter Jackson (King Kong); Ken Loach (Bread and Roses); Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited and The Grand Budapest Hotel); Barry Levinson (Liberty Heights); Spike Lee (Summer Of Sam); Xiaogang Feng (Remembering 1942); Tony Kaye (Detachment); and Woody Allen (Midnight In Paris). Some other films in his filmography include: Harrison’s Flowers; Love The Hard Way; The Jacket; Hollywoodland; Cadillac Records; The Brothers Bloom; Splice; and Predators.

Brody first came to prominence when he played a leading role in Steven Soderbergh's King Of The Hill and for starring performances in two features for director Eric Bross: Ten Benny and Restaurant. The latter earned Brody an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

In addition to acting, he paints professionally under the name ‘Brody’. His first collection, “Hotdogs, Hamburgers, and Handguns,” debuted at Art Basel in 2015; his second collection called “Hooked” debuted at New York Art Week in May 2016. His paintings sell worldwide for six figures, from Hong Kong to Europe.

Brody was born and raised in New York City, where he studied drama at LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.