Brady Corbet

Brady Corbet
Corbet as part of the Berlinale jury in 2024
Born	Brady James Monson Corbet (1988-08-17) August 17, 1988 (age 36) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Occupations	Actor director screenwriter
Years active	2000–present
Partner	Mona Fastvold (2012–present)
Children	1

Brady James Monson Corbet (/kɔːrˈbeɪ/;^[1][2] born August 17, 1988) is an American actor and filmmaker. Corbet started his career acting in films such as Thirteen (2003), Mysterious Skin (2004), Funny Games (2007), Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Melancholia (2011), and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014). He also acted in the fifth season of the action series 24 (2006) and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014).

Corbet made his feature film directorial debut with The Childhood of a Leader (2015).^[3] He has since directed the musical drama Vox Lux (2018) and the period epic The Brutalist (2024), for which he won the Silver Lion at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Best Director at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards,^[4] and received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Corbet was the only child of a single mother, and regards her as the closest thing he has to "a hero".^[5]

Corbet began an acting career at age eleven with a guest role in an April 2000 episode of CBS' The King of Queens, and he followed it up with voice work in the English version of the Japanese anime series NieA under 7. Over the next few years, he was a regular on another anime series, I My Me! Strawberry Eggs (2001), and he guest-starred in a May 2002 episode of the WB sitcom Greetings from Tucson. He also appeared in a May 2003 episode of Fox's sitcom Oliver Beene.

In 2003, Corbet landed his first film role when he was cast opposite Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens and Jeremy Sisto in director Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen.

In 2004, following his big-screen debut the previous year, Corbet starred as Alan Tracy, the youngest son of a billionaire ex-astronaut (played by Bill Paxton) in Thunderbirds, Jonathan Frakes' live-action movie based on the British TV series of the mid-1960s. Corbet once again shared the screen with Hudgens. Later that same year, California filmmaker Gregg Araki cast him opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the director's eighth film, Mysterious Skin. In the film, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim, Corbet portrayed Brian Lackey, a troubled teen who is plagued by nightmares and believes that he may have been abducted by aliens. The film debuted in that year's Venice Film Festival and had a limited release in 2005.

In 2006, Corbet returned to television with a recurring role as Derek Huxley, son of Jack Bauer's new girlfriend (played by Connie Britton) in the fifth season of Fox's Emmy- and Golden Globe–winning show, 24. Corbet played the role of Watts in the 2011 psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Corbet also has appeared in the indie rock band Bright Eyes' music video "At The Bottom Of Everything" (2005). In October 2006, he was featured in the Ima Robot video for "Lovers in Captivity," which was produced independently of their Virgin record label and was featured in an Out Magazine article.^[6][7]

In 2013, Corbet signed to direct his first feature film The Childhood of a Leader.^[8] It premiered in the Horizons section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival,^[9] where he won Best Director in the festival's Horizons (Orrizonti) section. In 2018, Corbet directed his second feature film Vox Lux starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law.^[10]

In September 2020, it was reported that Corbet would direct his third feature film, the immigrant drama The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce. The film was released 2024 to critical acclaim and earned 10 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Director for Corbet.

Since 2012, Corbet has been in a relationship with director and actress Mona Fastvold, whom he met on the set of The Sleepwalker, and they have since co-written five films together. Their daughter, Ada, was born in 2014.^[11][12]

Acting roles

Acting roles

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