Brady Corbet Career Summary:
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Raised by single mother
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First Film: child actor
First Oscar Nomination: The Brutalist, age 36
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Career Output: 3 features
Career Span (as director): 2015-present
Marriage: writer
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Corbet (born August 17, 1988) began his career as an actor 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), as well as the series 24 (2006) and Olive Kitteridge (2014).
Corbet made his directorial debut with The Childhood of a Leader (2015). He has since co-written and directed the musical drama Vox Lux (2018) and the period epic The Brutalist (2024).
The latter earned him the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Fest and the BAFTA and Oscar Best Director nomination.
Brady James Monson Corbet was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, on August 17, 1988. He was raised by a single mother, whom he regards as “a hero.”
On his mother’s side, he has Irish, Serbian (from Apatin), and “distant” Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry; he attended Catholic school.
Corbet began an acting career at age 11 with a guest role in an April 2000 episode of CBS’ The King of Queens. He followed it up with voice work in the English version of the animated Japanese series NieA under 7.
Over the next few years he was a regular on another animated 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, he landed his first film role in Catherine Hardwick’s indie, Thirteen.
In 2004 Corbet starred as the youngest son of a billionaire ex-astronaut in Thunderbirds, Jonathan Frakes’ live-action movie based on the 1960s British T.V. series.
Later that same year, Gregg Araki cast him in Mysterious Skin, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim. Corbet played a troubled teenager plagued by nightmares, believing that he may have been abducted by aliens. The film debuted in that year’s Venice Film Festival and had limited release in 2005.
In 2006, Corbet returned to TV with a recurring role as the son of Jack Bauer’s new girlfriend in the fifth season of 24.
He also appeared in the independent 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 Records label and was featured in an Out Magazine article. ]He played the role of Watts in the 2011 psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene.
Corbet’s first feature film, The Childhood of a Leader, premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Fest, 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.
The Brutalist, released in 2024 to critical acclaim, earned ten Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It won 3: Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Cinematography, and Sound.
He also won the Silver Lion at the 81st Venice International Film Fest.
Since 2012, Corbet has been in relationship with Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold, whom he met on the set of The Sleepwalker. They have since co-written five films together. They have a daughter named Ada (born 2014.
Filmography
2008 Protect You, Short film
2012 Simon Killer, Written with Antonio Campos and Mati Diop
2014 The Sleepwalker, Written with Mona Fastvold
2015 The Childhood of a Leader (directing debut)
2018 Vox Lux
2024 The Brutalist
2025 Ann Lee
