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Oscar winner Adrien Brody turns 49
The American actor Adrien Brody turns 49. Photo: Mickael Chavet/ZUMA Wire/dpa
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His name regularly ranks alongside Hollywood greats like Bill Murray in Wes Anderson’s films. In 2003 he was awarded an Oscar for the leading role in “The Pianist”. Adrien Brody turns 49 today.
His role as the Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in Polanski’s Holocaust drama The Pianist makes Adrien Brody a world-class actor.
For the film, the then 29-year-old was awarded an Oscar for his acting performance in the category “Best Actor”.
Brody previously starred in Terrence Malick’s 1998 war epic The Thin Red Line, but it was Polanski who ultimately helped him make the leap to the big screen.
In an interview with the “Zeitmagazin Mann” (issue 2/2021), Adrien Brody stated that he needed time to see himself as an older person. “When I turned 30, I felt like I was on top of the world,” the actor said at the time. “40 was a harder number for me. Life suddenly felt very real. My thirties had felt very different, floating.” Now he is 49.
Last fall, Brody starred in Wes Anderson’s film The French Dispatch. Another flick by the US filmmaker with Brody has been announced for this year – probably again alongside well-known faces such as Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray. Privately, the Oscar winner is a partner of fashion designer Georgina Chapman. Born on the same day as Brody, the 46-year-old is the ex-wife of former Hollywood mogul and now convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.