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Bodhi Rae Breathnach

Bodhi Rae Breathnach (born 2011, Limerick) is an Irish actress known as Susanna in Hamnet (2025), Jessie in Shelter (2026), and Margaret Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2026), with Werwulf upcoming.

Bodhisattva Guide of Souls

Bodhisattva Guide of Souls (Yinlu Pusa tu, 引路菩萨图) is a Tang dynasty silk painting from Dunhuang, showing a bodhisattva leading a deceased woman's soul toward the Western Pure Land.

Bodhrán

Bodhrán (bodhrán): Irish single-headed circular frame drum with goatskin head and open back, played with a tipper stick while the inside hand controls pitch. Popularized by Seán Ó Riada's Ceoltóirí Chualann from about 1960; older ancient-origin claims lack direct evidence.

Bodice

Bodice: the fitted upper part of a woman's dress or a separate torso garment, from "a pair of bodies" (mid-16th century). Distinct from stays and corsets, which are stiffened undergarments worn beneath it.

Bodie (musician)

bodie, real name Bodie Kuljian, is a Californian alt-pop singer and The Voice season 22 runner-up (2022) who signed with Sony's Christian label Provident in 2024 and released the EP Happy to Be Here and album No Skips.

Bodie Broadus

Preston "Bodie" Broadus, fictional corner drug dealer in HBO's The Wire, played by J.D. Williams; serves the Barksdale then Stanfield organizations, killed in season four, partly inspired by Nathan Barksdale.

Bodied

Bodied is a 2017 satirical comedy directed by Joseph Kahn, written by battle rapper Alex Larsen (Kid Twist), and produced by Eminem, about a Berkeley grad student whose thesis on battle rap turns him into a controversial battle rapper.

Bodies (2023 TV series)

Bodies (2023) is a British Netflix eight-episode limited series created by Paul Tomalin from Si Spencer's graphic novel, in which four London detectives in 1890, 1941, 2023, and 2053 investigate the same body found on Longharvest Lane, Whitechapel.

Bodies (Drowning Pool song)

Bodies is Drowning Pool's May 14, 2001 nu metal single from Sinner, peaked No. 6 Mainstream Rock, written about moshing crowds, later banned-listed post-9/11 and heavily sampled and reused in film.

Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人)

Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人) is a 2019 Hong Kong-China action crime thriller directed by Renny Harlin, starring Nick Cheung, Yang Zi, and Richie Jen, about criminals raiding a morgue for a bullet; it opened HKIFF43 and earned about 1.8亿元.

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bodies Bodies Bodies (also styled Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) is a 2022 A24 comedy-horror whodunit directed by Halina Reijn, written by Sarah DeLappe from a Kristen Roupenian story, starring Amandla Stenberg and Maria Bakalova; released August 5, 2022.

Bodil Joensen

Bodil Joensen was a Danish pornographic actress who rose to fame after Denmark legalized pictorial pornography in 1969. She was known for her work with animals.

Bodkin

Bodkin is a 2024 Netflix darkly comedic thriller, seven episodes, created by Jez Scharf and produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara as podcasters probing disappearances in a fictional West Cork town.

Body art

Body art is art in which the human body, most often the artist's own, is the medium, a movement that arose internationally in the 1960s alongside performance art.

Body Cam (film)

Body Cam (2020 film), Paramount supernatural police thriller directed by Malik Vitthal, starring Mary J. Blige as officer Renee Lomito; distinct from the 2026 found-footage horror Bodycam and the 2018 documentary series.

Body Count (band)

Body Count is an American metal band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles by rapper Ice-T and guitarist Ernie C, known as crossover thrash rather than rap metal. Famous for the 1992 "Cop Killer" controversy, it has released eight albums, most recently Merciless (2024).

Body Double

Body Double (1984) is Brian De Palma's erotic thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith, a Hitchcock homage about voyeurism, murder, and the LA porn industry; a Columbia Pictures release that flopped at the box office but became a genre template.

Body Heat

Body Heat (1981) is Lawrence Kasdan's neo-noir directorial debut, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner as lovers plotting a murder in steamy South Florida, modeled on Double Indemnity and a key 1980s erotic thriller.

Body High Tour

Body High Tour: FKA twigs' 2026 world tour supporting EUSEXUA and EUSEXUA Afterglow, announced December 1, 2025; ran March 14 Miami to June 12 Berlin, with MSG, O2, and Coachella dates.

Body horror

Body horror is a horror subgenre centered on bodily mutation, decay, and loss of control, coined by Philip Brophy in 1983, pioneered by David Cronenberg, and revived by films like The Substance (2024).

Body of Evidence (1993 film)

Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller directed by Uli Edel and starring Madonna as an art-gallery owner tried for murdering her wealthy lover, with Willem Dafoe.

Body of Lies (film)

Body of Lies is a 2008 American espionage thriller directed by Ridley Scott, based on David Ignatius's novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA operative hunting terrorists in Jordan.

Body of Proof

Body of Proof is an American medical crime drama on ABC (2011–2013), created by Christopher Murphey, starring Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon turned Philadelphia medical examiner; 42 episodes, 3 seasons.

Body painting

Body painting is the temporary application of paint or pigment to the human body for art, ritual, performance, or camouflage, lasting from hours to weeks before washing off.

Body piercing

Body piercing: insertion of an ornament into a tissue perforation for decorative, cultural, or spiritual reasons. Ancient practice (46,000-year-old Australian nose ornament, Varna gold earrings), revived in 1970s California by Jim Ward; infection is the main risk; professional practice requires sterile needles and implant-grade jewelry.

Body proportions

Body proportions: the size relationships among human body parts, expressed in art as head-height multiples (adults 7.5–8 heads, children fewer), traced from Egyptian grids and Polykleitos through Vitruvius and Leonardo's Vitruvian Man to modern 3D anthropometry.

Body Snatchers (1993 film)

Body Snatchers (1993) is Abel Ferrara's 87-minute horror-science-fiction film, the third adaptation of Jack Finney's novel, set on an Alabama army base, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, and Forest Whitaker, released by Warner Bros.

Body swap appearances in media

Body swap appearances in media: the body-swap trope in film, TV, and animation, from Vice Versa (1882) and Freaky Friday to Big, Face/Off, Your Name, and Freaky, covering swap mechanisms, subgenres, and criticism.

Body to Body (song)

"Body to Body" is BTS's 2026 opening track on the album ARIRANG, produced by Diplo, Ryan Tedder, the Picard Brothers, and Pdogg, interpolating the Korean folk song Arirang; reworked from a sexual "Body on Body" concept into a stadium anthem inspired by the 1988 Seoul Olympics theme "Hand in Hand".

Bodyarmor SuperDrink

Bodyarmor SuperDrink (BODYARMOR) is an American sports drink founded in 2011 by Mike Repole and Lance Collins, known for coconut water, potassium-heavy electrolytes, and Kobe Bryant's 2013 investment; Coca-Cola bought the remaining 85% for $5.6 billion in 2021.