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 ADRIEN BRODY (Jack Driscoll) has made an indelible impression on Hollywood. His Oscar® win for his performance in Roman Polanski's The Pianist made him the youngest person to win a Best Actor award.His portrayal of Wladyslaw Szpilman also earned him Best Actor nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA. Other accolades for this performance include those from the César Awards (French equivalent of the Oscars®), the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
Brody was most recently seen in John Maybury's The Jacket, where he starred opposite Keira Knightley, as well as in M. Night Shyamalan's dramatic thriller The Village, opposite Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver. Brody has also recently completed production on Allen Coulter's crime drama Truth, Justice, and the American Way, where he stars opposite Ben Affleck and Diane Lane.
Brody first came to prominence for his role in Steven Soderbergh's King of the Hill and garnered critical praise in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam and Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights. He also starred in Eli Chouraqui's Harrison's Flowers and in the ensemble film The Singing Detective, opposite Robert Downey, Jr., Mel Gibson and Robin Wright Penn (which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival). His other film credits include Charles Shyer's romantic drama The Affair of the Necklace, opposite Hilary Swank; Ken Loach's Bread & Roses; Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line; The Last Time I Committed Suicide, with Keanu Reeves; and Eric Bross' Ten Benny.
Brody was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the High School for Performing Arts and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Adrien Brody Profile
--- Born: on 04/14/73 in New York, New York
--- Job Titles: Actor
Family
--- Father: Elliot Brody.
--- Mother: Sylvia Plachy.
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Significant Others
--- Companion: Monet Mazur. dated for about a year; separated in early 2002
--- Companion: Sky Nellor. no longer together
Education
--- American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, New York
Milestones
--- Co-starred with Jack Black and Naomi Watts in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" a remake of the 1933 classic (lensed 2005)
1988 Cast as Mary Tyler Moore's stepson in the short-lived CBS sitcom "Annie McGuire"
1988 TV acting debut in the PBS production "Home at Last"
1989 Feature film debut in the Francis Ford Coppola-helmed "Life Without Zoe" segment of the omnibus feature "New York Stories"
1993 Won critical praise as a teenage con artist in "King of the Hill"
1994 Had featured role in the William Friedkin-directed "Jailbreakers" segment of Showtime's "Rebel Highway"
1995 Garnered rave notices for his star-making role as a gambler in "Ten Benny/Nothing to Lose"; film was shown on the festival circuit; received theatrical release in November 1998; first collaboration with writer-director Eric Bross
1996 Appeared as a gay Beat poet loosely based on Alan Ginsburg in the film "The Last Time I Committed Suicide"; played at film festivals before premiering on Cinemax and then receiving a limited theatrical release
1997 Co-starred in the noir drama "Six Ways to Sunday" (released 1999)
1998 Played Corporal Fife in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line"; role had been touted as the lead (as Fife is the authorial stand-in) but in the final cut, the part had been reduced to little more than a cameo
1998 Starred in Bross' second feature "Restaurant"; released theatrically in 2000
1999 Appeared in Barry Levinson's "Liberty Heights"
1999 Cast as a villain in "Oxygen"; film debuted on Cinemax before its brief theatrical run
1999 Co-starred in "Summer of Sam", directed by Spike Lee
2000 Featured in the Yugoslavia-set war film "Harrison's Flowers"
2000 Starred in Kenneth Loach's gripping labor drama "Bread and Roses"; screened at Cannes
2002 Portrayed Wladyslaw Szpilman, the brilliant pianist in Roman Polanski's WWII drama "The Pianist"; received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Drama for his role in the feature; also received leading role nominations for a BAFTA and a SAG.
2003 Played the urban hipster con man, Brody in "Love The Hard Way"
2004 Co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix and William Hurt in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"
2005 Portrays an institutionalized Gulf War veteran opposite Keira Knightley in "The Jacket"
Appeared in photographs taken by his mother, famed photographer Sylvia Plachy
At age six, made amateur acting debut as a dwarf in "Snow White" in a summer camp production
Attended a weekend program for young people at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Professional acting debut in the Off-Broadway play "Family Pride in the '50s"
Raised in the New York City neighborhood of Woodhaven, Queens
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