On
This Day…
Adrien
Brody was born on this day in 1973.
Adrien
Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and film producer. He received
widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist
(2002), for which he became the youngest
actor to win the Academy Award
for Best Actor at age 29. Brody is also the only American actor to
receive the French César Award.
Trivia:
Is the only actor to win a Best Actor Oscar when nominated alongside four
previous Oscar winners.
Performed
magic shows at children's birthdays as a child as the Amazing Adrien.
To
prepare for his title role in The Pianist
(2002), he learned to play Frédéric
Chopin pieces on the piano and shed 30 pounds off his already-thin
frame. He cut himself off from his real life by giving up his car and apartment
because he felt responsible to those Polish Jews who had suffered greatly and
wanted to connect, to some small degree, with their hurt and despair.
“My
dad told me, "It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success", and
it took me seventeen and a half years.”
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