Adrien Brody Is One Of The Best Villains Peaky Blinders Ever Had

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Over the course of his career, Adrien Brody has played a wide range of characters. In 2003, Brody won an Academy Award for his leading role in The Pianist as Wladyslaw Szpilman. Brody is also associated with his role in The Grand Budapest Hotel as Dimitri. In 2021 Brody was a member of the star-studded cast of The French Dispatch which also starred Frances McDormand and Timothée Chalamet.

Brody's impressive resume isn't limited to roles on the big screen. Brody portrayed notorious escape artist Harry Houdini in the History channel's two-part series in 2014. The series received a number of Emmy nominations in 2015, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries for Brody. In 2017, Brody began to play a different kind of leader in the hit-BBC series, Peaky Blinders.

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Brody made his first appearance in Peaky Blinders in Series 4, which aired in 2017. Brody played Luca Changretta, a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia in New York. The Changretta family was first met in the third season of Peaky Blinders, as Lizzie Stark was involved with Luca's brother, Angel. Their relationship wasn't approved by the Shelbys and when she refused to end things with him, the English gangsters took things into their own hands. Angel wound up dead and his father, Vincente, tried to exact revenge against Thomas, but it doesn't go as planned. Instead of shooting Thomas, the bullet finds his wife, Grace, killing her. Thomas then orders the deaths of Vincente and his wife, but Arthur and John go against his orders and leave Audrey Changretta alive.

John and Arthur's decision comes back to bite them in Series 4. Able to return to America, Audrey tells Luca of what the Blinders