Brady James Monson Corbet (born August 17, 1988) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Corbet started his career acting in the 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 (2015).
Corbet made his feature directorial debut with The Childhood of a Leader (2015).
He has since directed the musical drama Vox Lux (2018) and the historical epic The Brutalist (2024), for which he won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Fest.
Corbet was the only child of a single mother, whom he regards as the closest thing he has to “a hero.”
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.
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 opposite Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens and Jeremy Sisto in director Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen.
After his big-screen debut, Corbet starred as Alan Tracy, the youngest son of billionaire ex-astronaut (played by Bill Paxton) in Thunderbirds (2004), Jonathan Frakes’ live-action movie based on the British TV series of the 1960s. Corbet once again shared the screen with Hudgens.
In 2004, Gregg Araki cast him opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the director’s eighth film, Mysterious Skin. In the film, based on the 1996 novel by Scott Heim, Corbet portrayed Brian Lackey, troubled teen plagued by nightmares that he may have been abducted by aliens. The film debuted in that year’s Venice Film Festival and had limited release in 2005, but was a commercial failure.
In 2006, Corbet returned to TV with recurring role as Derek Huxley, son of Jack Bauer’s new girlfriend (played by Connie Britton) in the fifth season of Fox’s Emmy-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 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.[5][6]
In 2013, Corbet signed to direct his first feature, The Childhood of a Leader.[7] It premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Fest, where he won Best Director in the festival’s Horizons section.
In 2018, Corbet directed his second feature film Vox Lux starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law.
Since 2012, Corbet has been dating director and actress Mona Fastvold, whom he met on the set of The Sleepwalker. Their daughter was born in 2014.
Acting credits
2003 Thirteen Mason Freeland
2004 Mysterious Skin Brian Lackey
Thunderbirds Alan Tracy
2007 Funny Games Peter
2010 Two Gates of Sleep Jack Also editor (with Alistair Banks Griffin)
2011 Martha Marcy May Marlene Watts
Melancholia Tim
2012 Simon Killer Simon
2014 Clouds of Sils Maria Piers Roaldson
Eden Larry
Force Majeure Brady
Saint Laurent An American investor
The Sleepwalker Ira
While We’re Young Kent Arlington
Escobar: Paradise Lost Dylan Brady
Portrait of the Artist A spectator Uncredited
Yellowbird Willy Voice role (English dub)
Television
2000 The King of Queens Stu Episode: “Big Dougie”
2003 Oliver Beene Spencer Episode: “Oliver’s Best Friend”
Greetings from Tucson Brian Episode: “Eegee’s vs. Hardee’s”
2006 24 Derek Huxley Recurring role (season 5), 6 episodes
2008 Law & Order Patrick Friendly Episode: “Lost Boys”
2014 Olive Kitteridge Henry Thibodeau Miniseries
Films
2008 Protect You + Short film
2012 Simon Killer No Story No Written with Antonio Campos and Mati Diop
2014 The Sleepwalker, Written with Mona Fastvold
2015 The Childhood of a Leader
2018 Vox Lux
2024 The Brutalist
2025 Ann Lee
