Adrien Brody

format_quote (Growing up in Queens, New York) "I hung out with troublemakers. I was a sensitive teenage boy, who luckily had kind parents, but I lived in a not-so-kind neighborhood. In order to deal with it, I toughened up and became more of a hoodier kid. It was never malicious, that's not in my nature, but I was much harder than I am today. Had I not had parents I could talk to, it would have got out of hand."

stars  Was very good friends with the late Tupac Shakur, with whom he starred in the little known film Bullet (1996).

stars  Shares a birthday with Sarah Michelle Gellar.

stars  Ranked #21 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties.

stars  Taking acting classes as a youth, by age 13 he had done an off-Broadway play and a PBS-TV-movie.

stars  His mother is the Hungarian-born photojournalist Sylvia Plachy.