Adam Brody

Brody dated his co-star Rachel Bilson for three years. All was good between the couple before they broke up in December 2006.

After a year of dating, he got married to actress Leighton Meester in February 2014 in a private ceremony.

Adam Brody was born on 15 December 1979 in Carlsbad, San Diego, California. He comes from a Jewish lineahe. His father is a lawyer and mother is a Creative Director at Sempra Energy. Brody has two siblings. Both of them are younger to him and are twins. They are Sean and Matt.

Brody was not a great kid at school. In fact, he performed very poorly in academics. He went to Wangenheim Middle School and Scripps Ranch High School. He rarely attended school and mostly spent time surfing. He pretty much spent all his childhood at the beach. His charming personality had a lot of girls flocking around him. However, he clarifies that he was not a Casanova.

He also attended Community College for a year, but later on dropped out on the pretext of fulfilling his aspiration to become a Hollywood actor. In the pursuit of his dream, he hired an acting coach and he also signed up with a manager.

It was in 2000, that Brody ended up in the television movie ‘Growing Up Brady’. He landed up with the character of Barry Williams in the movie after a year of hard work, training and auditioning.

Brody’s major role in television came when he was cast in a recurring role on ‘Gilmore Girls’ as Dave Rygalski. This happened in 2002. Prior to this, in 2001, Brody played a small part in ‘American Pie 2’.

The role that shot him to fame was of Seth Cohen in the television show ‘The O.C.’ in 2003. Brody became a teen icon with this show. His role in ‘The O.C. helped him gather a lot of female attention. This also got him rave titles such as ‘TV’s sexiest geek’; ‘25 Sexiest Stars under 25’ and the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’.

The year 2003 proved to be a good one for Brody as around the same year he also attempted writing and wrote a short film called ‘Home Security’. He also featured in the movie ‘Grind’ and a music video called ‘Too Bad about Your Girl’ by The Donnas.

In 2005, Brody had the great fortune of sharing screen space with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Will Smith’.

Brody’s role in ‘The O.C.’ where he played the sarcastic and geeky Seth Cohen got him all the fame and recognition. He was given many titles from various magazines like ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ and the like. This show in a way opened his doors to Hollywood too. In the movies to follow, he had the great fortune of working alongside many Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox.