Adrien Nicholas Brody born April 14, is an American actor. As a child, Brody performed magic shows at children's birthday parties as "The Amazing Adrien".
His parents enrolled him in acting classes to distance him from the dangerous children with whom he associated. The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor , making him, at age twenty-nine, the youngest actor ever to win the award, and, to date, the only winner under the age of thirty. After The Pianist , Brody appeared in four distinctively different films.
In Dummy released in , but originally shot in , just prior to his work in The Pianist , he portrayed Steven Schoichet, a socially awkward aspiring ventriloquist in pursuit of a love interest his employment counsellor, played by Vera Farmiga.
He reprised his role voicing Driscoll in the video game adaptation of the film. Additionally, Brody played a detective in Hollywoodland. On January 5, , Brody confirmed speculation that he was interested in playing the role of The Joker in 's The Dark Knight , and also met with director Christopher Nolan. However, Nolan and Warner Bros. Abrams ' Star Trek , but it ultimately went to Zachary Quinto. The same year, Brody was cast as the title role of Lee Tamahori 's action epic Emperor, about a young woman seeking revenge for the execution of her father by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , [ 28 ] [ 29 ] opposite Sophie Cookson.
In , it was announced that he would join the cast of the fourth season of the BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders. The play is based on the true story of Nick Yarris , an exonerated death-row inmate from Pennsylvania. In , Brody was seriously hurt in a motorcycle collision in which he was thrown over a car and crashed head-first into a crosswalk.
