On April 14, American actor and producer Adrien Brody celebrates his 46th birthday. He has starred in more than 40 films and is a winner of the Oscar and Cesar awards for Best Actor. Adrien Brody made his screen debut at the age of fifteen, starring in David De’s television drama Home At Last.
In the early nineties, Adrien Brody dated model Sky Nellore, whom he later left for actress and singer Mona Happy Mazur. In 2007, Adrian met and began dating actress Elsa Pataky. Their relationship reached an engagement, but not a wedding.
Adrian has never been married and has no children. The actor likes to spend his free time from work at home, playing with his dogs.
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The plot tells about the situation in American troops during World War II. Specifically, about one of the iconic battles in the Pacific Ocean – the Battle of Guadalcanal. In this military company there are only regular army soldiers.
Some of them have been in the army for more than 10 years, but many have never seen combat. Soldiers boast, die, and perform heroic deeds. Personal stories unfold, but only survival matters.
The Pianist (2002)
The famous film by Roman Polanski, in which Adrian brilliantly embodied the image of Wladislav Szpilman, a Jewish musician who survived Nazi-occupied Warsaw, is considered a turning point in Brody’s fate.
The film received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The Pianist also won three Oscars in different categories.
The Village (2004)
The story takes place in the isolated Pennsylvania village of Covington. It is surrounded by forests in which Those-Whose-Name-We-Not-Name live, creepy-looking, tall, porcupine-like monsters famous for their bloodthirstiness.
The villagers are sure that they should not attract the attention of monsters and cross the forest border. If the treaty made between the Covington elders and the robed forest predators is violated, the villagers could suffer serious harm.
Jacket (2005)
The 2005 American-German film by John Maybury, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, tells the story of war veteran Jack Starks.
Adrien’s hero went through the war in Iraq and suffers from amnesia. He is placed in a psychiatric hospital, where he is subjected to experimental treatments – the hero moves into his future and tries to change the world for the better.
King Kong (2005)
A documentary film crew went to Skull Island to find out about the existence of a mysterious creature. It turned out to be a huge primate nicknamed Kong.
Next to him live terrible, dangerous land animals that lived on earth millions of years ago and disappeared long ago, but it turns out not all of them. The group finds itself in a difficult situation: on one side is King Kong, and on the other are dinosaurs.
Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The crime comedy takes place in the first half of the 20th century. Mustafa gets a job at one of the most famous old lady hotels in Europe called the Grand Budapest. But he couldn’t even imagine how much he would have to endure here.
Detachment (2011)
Henry Barth is a substitute teacher who receives another temporary assignment. He needs to teach English language and literature at a school with children from disadvantaged families.
Bart tries to teach children what he himself would like to learn – how not to be an outsider and live in harmony with the whole world.
Cadillac Records (2008)
Leonard Chess, a Polish immigrant of Jewish descent, becomes the founder of Chess Records, which opens the door for African-American artists to record music.
Cadillac Records touches on the stories of such US musical legends as Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James, Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon and the British group The Rolling Stones.
Experiment (2010)
26 people who did not know each other were placed in conditions that were unusual for them: some of the participants were turned into “guards”, and the other half into “prisoners”. The “guards” were given batons, the “prisoners” were seated in their cells.
No special instructions were received, so each of those taking part in the study began to behave as their subconscious told them. Each of the heroes succumbed to the influence of their psyche, but the results were completely different.
Brothers Bloom (2008)
The famous Bloom brothers devoted their whole lives to “divorcing” gullible millionaires. Of course, the occupation is not entirely legal, but Bloom and Stephen believe that people have every right to steal from those who are fabulously rich.
The next time, desperate swindlers chose the daughter of a millionaire, Penelope, as the target of another fraud. Step by step, the brothers seduce the beauty. But the guys couldn’t even imagine what consequences the seemingly innocent romance would entail.