Adam Brody

Adam Brody



Born Adam Jared Brody
December 15, 1979
San Diego, California, U.S.

Brody was born in San Diego, California to Valerie Jill (née Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Alan Brody, an attorney.He has younger twin brothers, Sean and Matthew (born 1985). His parents, both Jewish, are originally from Detroit, Michigan, and Brody had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

Brody attended Wangenheim Middle School and Scripps Ranch High School, receiving "poor grades", and grew up in suburban San Diego, where he spent his time surfing. He has said that he "pretty much lived at the beach". Brody attended community college for one year, dropped out at the age of nineteen, and moved to Hollywood in order to become an actor. He subsequently hired an acting coach and signed with a talent manager.

After a year of training and auditioning, Brody landed the role of Barry Williams in the television film Growing Up Brady (2000).

Brody is a secular Jew and is non-religious. He has described himself as being a "faux intellectual" and "beach mood" person.

In March 2010, Brody met actress Leighton Meester while filming The Oranges in Westchester, New York. They became engaged in November 2013, and married in a private ceremony on February 15, 2014. They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Arlo Day Brody, on August 4, 2015 in Whittier, California.