Adam Brody

Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American blur and television amateur and allotment time musician. He began his career in 1995, actualization on Gilmore Girls and added series, and after came to acclaim for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C. Brody after appeared in several blur roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, Jennifer's Body, In the Land of Women, Cop Out, and Scream 4.

Early life

Brody was built-in in Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, the oldest son of Jewish parents Valerie (née Siefman), a clear artist, and Mark Brody, a lawyer. He has adolescent accompanying brothers, Sean and Matt. Brody abounding Wangenheim Middle Academy and Scripps Ranch Top School, accepting "poor grades", and grew up in burghal San Diego, spending time surfing. He has said that while he was not a "Casanova", he had "cute girlfriends" and "pretty abundant lived at the beach". Brody abounding association academy for one year and alone out at the age of nineteen, affective to Hollywood in adjustment to become an actor. He after assassin an acting drillmaster and active with a manager.

Career

After a year of training and auditioning, Brody landed the role of Barry Williams in the 2000 TV cine Growing Up Brady. He aswell was in the Canadian ball television alternation The Sausage Factory. In 2001, he played a baby role in American Pie 2, alleged as "high academy guy". He was one of two top academy guys who get chased abroad from Steve Stifler's party. He was casting in alternating roles on Gilmore Girls in 2002–2003 as Dave Rygalski, Lane's bandmate and adulation absorption afore his appearance larboard to go to California, or in this case, The O.C.. In 2003, Brody wrote "Home Security" (a abbreviate film), appeared in the affection blur Grind and aswell in a music video of a song alleged "Too Bad About Your Girl" by The Donnas. Still in 2003, he began arena his a lot of acclaimed role to date, Seth Cohen, a hardly awkward teenager, on the television appearance The O.C.. Brody improvised some of the character's banana dialogue. The role angry him into a boyhood idol, with the appearance accepting been declared by the Los Angeles Times as "TV's sexiest geek" and by Time as accepting "redefined" the awning persona of "unapologetic" nerdiness; his appearance (defined by administrator Jon Kasdan as the "new affectionate of banal Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-obsessed") has aback aggressive scripts to call accurate characters as "Adam Brody types". The role aswell developed Brody a changeable fan afterward and as a result, Brody was ranked No. 17 in Independent Online's "100 Sexiest Men Alive" of 2006, was alert placed on Boyhood People's anniversary account of "25 Sexiest Stars beneath 25", and was the aboriginal macho on the awning of Elle Girl. He aswell appeared thrice -2003, 2004, 2005- in People's Magazine "50 Hottest Bachelors".

At the 2005 Toronto International Blur Festival

During the show's run, Brody appeared alongside Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2005's blur Mr. & Mrs. Smith and played a Hollywood flat abettor in the 2006 blur adjustment of Thank You for Smoking. Brody was active to a seven-year arrangement for The O.C., arena the role of Seth Cohen, area he acted abundant like himself. The appearance was eventually canceled in 2007 and concluded its run in February of that year; Brody has said that he is "not unhappy" with the show's cancellation and that although he was "fortunate" to be on a acknowledged series, he was aswell animated to "not be on it for 10 years". After the end of The O.C.'s run, Brody angry to a full-time blur career.

His next blur was In the Land of Women, a adventurous ball co-starring Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart and arise on April 20, 2007. In the film, Brody plays the advance role, a biographer who allotment to his mother's Michigan hometown in adjustment to yield affliction of his ailing grandmother. Brody did not accept to audience for the part, but was about clumsy to arise in the blur because of scheduling conflicts with the additional division of The O.C.; the film's administrator pushed filming aback eight months because he capital Brody to star. The aforementioned year, Brody aswell appeared in acknowledging roles in the lower account films Smiley Face, arena a pot dealer, and The Ten, as a skydiver. He aswell bedfellow appeared in the Smallville adventure "Crush".

Brody, forth with amateur Zac Efron, was in application for the advance allotment in the blur Speed Racer, a role which was eventually accustomed to Emile Hirsch. Brody was aswell set to aftermath a accommodate of Revenge of the Nerds, which was canceled aboriginal during filming.

In 2009, he co-starred with Josh Lucas in Boaz Yakin's drama, Death in Love, and in Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody's new abhorrence blur Jennifer's Body, co-starring Megan Fox.

In 2010, he appeared in Kevin Smith's blur Cop Out, which was attempt in NYC and co-starred Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and again in The Romantics alongside Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel. It was appear on July 1, 2010 that Brody landed the role of Detective Hoss in Scream 4 that was arise in April 2011.

Personal life

Brody lives in Los Angeles. He anachronous The O.C. co-star Rachel Bilson for three years. The accord concluded in December 2006.

Brody plays drums for the bandage Big Japan with amateur Bret Harrison. He writes screenplays and songs during his additional time and has co-written, forth with Danny Bilson and Paul DiMeo, a banana book miniseries for Wildstorm Comics alleged Red Menace. Brody has aswell volunteered as an amateur with the Young Storytellers Program, which is committed to developing literacy, self-expression and self-esteem in elementary academy children.

Brody has declared himself as a "fake intellectual" and his faculty of amusement as sarcastic. He is a civil Jew and has declared that he "couldn't be beneath religious". Brody has said that if he confused to Hollywood he became "more nerdy" and accepted his "neurotic side".