Adrien Brody Biography

At age 29, Adrien Brody became the youngest person to win the Academy Award for best actor in 2003, for his role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Actor Adrien Brody was born April 14, 1973, in New York City. Early in his career, Brody appeared in lesser-seen films that earned him critical praise but failed to put him in the public spotlight. Brody showed promise once again in 1999 in Summer of Sam, but didn't receive true stardom until three years later, when Roman Polanski cast him in The Pianist (2002), for which he won an Academy Award for best actor in 2003.