Adrien Brody

Co-starred with Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson in director Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited"

Cast as private detective Louis Simo, in "Hollywoodland" who investigates the death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck)

Played Jack Driscoll, opposite Jack Black and Naomi Watts in Peter Jackson's "King Kong" a remake of the 1933 classic

Portrays an institutionalized Gulf War veteran opposite Keira Knightley in "The Jacket"

Co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix and William Hurt in M. Night Shyamalan's "The Village"

Played the urban hipster con man, Brody in "Love The Hard Way"

Portrayed Wladyslaw Szpilman, the brilliant pianist in Roman Polanski's WWII drama "The Pianist"; received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Drama for his role in the feature; also received leading role nominations for a BAFTA and a SAG.

Featured in the Yugoslavia-set war film "Harrison's Flowers"

Starred in Kenneth Loach's gripping labor drama "Bread and Roses"; screened at Cannes

Appeared in Barry Levinson's "Liberty Heights"

Cast as a villain in "Oxygen"; film debuted on Cinemax before its brief theatrical run

Co-starred in "Summer of Sam", directed by Spike Lee

Played Corporal Fife in Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line"; role had been touted as the lead (as Fife is the authorial stand-in) but in the final cut, the part had been reduced to little more than a cameo

Starred in Bross' second feature "Restaurant"; released theatrically in 2000

Co-starred in the noir drama "Six Ways to Sunday" (released 1999)

Appeared as a gay Beat poet loosely based on Alan Ginsburg in the film "The Last Time I Committed Suicide"; played at film festivals before premiering on Cinemax and then receiving a limited theatrical release

Garnered rave notices for his star-making role as a gambler in "Ten Benny/Nothing to Lose"; film was shown on the festival circuit; received theatrical release in November 1998; first collaboration with writer-director Eric Bross

Had featured role in the William Friedkin-directed "Jailbreakers" segment of Showtime's "Rebel Highway"

Won critical praise as a teenage con artist in "King of the Hill"

Feature film debut in the Francis Ford Coppola-helmed "Life Without Zoe" segment of the omnibus feature "New York Stories"

Cast as Mary Tyler Moore's stepson in the short-lived CBS sitcom "Annie McGuire"

TV acting debut in the PBS production "Home at Last"

Appeared in photographs taken by his mother, famed photographer Sylvia Plachy

At age six, made amateur acting debut as a dwarf in "Snow White" in a summer camp production

Attended a weekend program for young people at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts

Professional acting debut in the Off-Broadway play "Family Pride in the '50s"

Raised in the New York City neighborhood of Woodhaven, Queens