5. Adrien Brody
Brody won an Oscar for The Pianist in 2002, where he played a musician trying to survive WWII. He was 29 at the time, making him the youngest actor to win a Best Actor award. Brody followed that success when he starred in the King Kong remake (2005), which was a box office success. That year, he also starred in the critically acclaimed The Darjeeling Limited by the quirky director Wes Anderson. Between 2005 and 2014, Brody all but disappeared from the Red Carpet, with the exception of small roles in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) where he portrayed Salvador Dali, and in another Anderson film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). But Brody became a punch line, since his most visible role since winning an Oscar was for a commercial. He appeared in a highly-visible ad for Stella Artois that premiered right after half-time of the Super Bowl XLV.
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